ngeo-figures
Use when designing or auditing display items for a Nature Geoscience manuscript, where 4-6 figures/tables must carry the Earth-system advance and its uncertainty for a broad readership. Designs figure strategy; does not run the analysis or write prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-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.
# Nature Geoscience Figures (ngeo-figures) ## When to trigger - You have many candidate maps, sections, and time series and must choose 4–6 - Your lead figure does not convey the Earth-system advance at a glance - Panels are dense, captions are long, or map/section elements are unreadable at column width - You are over the display-item ceiling and must merge or relocate - A coauthor wants to "add one more panel just in case" ## Display-item budget for an Article A Nature Geoscience Article carries **4–6 display items** (figures and/or tables combined; verify). Every one must earn its place and be legible to a non-specialist. The hierarchy: - **Lead figure (Fig. 1)** — conveys the headline advance at a glance. A reader skimming should grasp the result, and ideally its uncertainty, from this figure plus its caption alone. Often a map or cross-section that situates the study *and* shows the key signal. - **Supporting figures** — each makes exactly one additional point (a mechanism, a dependence, a data–model comparison, a time series with error envelope). - **Everything else** — extended maps, all model members, secondary proxies, raw traces → Supplementary Information (Fig. Sn). If a
- When to trigger
- Display-item budget for an Article
- Earth-science lead-figure rules
- Production standards
- Panel discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-figures skill do?
Use when designing or auditing display items for a Nature Geoscience manuscript, where 4-6 figures/tables must carry the Earth-system advance and its uncertainty for a broad readership. Designs figure strategy; does not run the analysis or write prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-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 984 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.