jacs-figures
Use when building schemes, spectra, structures, and reaction/mechanism figures in ACS style for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript. Designs and audits graphics — it does not generate the underlying data.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-figures --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Schemes, Structures, and Figures (ACS Style) (jacs-figures) ## When to trigger - Reaction schemes, mechanism cycles, or structure drawings need building - Spectra/plots are cluttered, mislabeled, or unreadable - Figures don't follow ACS conventions (fonts, bond lengths, panel labels) - The TOC/abstract graphic needs designing ## Figure types and what each must do | Figure type | Must convey | Common tool | |-------------|-------------|-------------| | Reaction scheme | Substrate → product, conditions, yield/ee under the arrow | ChemDraw | | Scope figure | Generality at a glance; products with yields/ee; failures noted | ChemDraw | | Mechanism / catalytic cycle | Stoichiometry-balanced steps; oxidation states; key intermediates | ChemDraw | | Spectra (NMR/IR/UV-vis) | Axes, units, assignments of diagnostic peaks | MestReNova / Origin | | Crystal structure (ORTEP) | Thermal ellipsoids (with % probability), labeled key atoms, H omitted as stated | Mercury / OLEX2 | | Property/kinetics plot | Variables, units, error bars, fit + equation | Origin / Matplotlib | | TOC graphic | The central advance in one glance | ChemDraw + Illustrator | ## ACS drawing conventions (ChemDraw) - Use ACS
- When to trigger
- Figure types and what each must do
- ACS drawing conventions (ChemDraw)
- Spectra and data plots
- TOC graphic craft (the most-seen image of the paper)
- Caption discipline (worked micro-edit)
- Scope-figure craft
- Composition and accessibility
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Related resources
What does the jacs-figures skill do?
Use when building schemes, spectra, structures, and reaction/mechanism figures in ACS style for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript. Designs and audits graphics — it does not generate the underlying data.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-figures --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.