prl-figures
Use when designing or auditing figures for a Physical Review Letters manuscript, where a few high-impact figures must carry the central result and count against the length limit. Designs figure strategy; does not run the analysis or write prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill prl-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.
# PRL Figures (prl-figures) ## When to trigger - You have many candidate figures and need to choose a few - Your lead figure does not convey the central result at a glance - Panels are dense, captions are long, or symbols are unreadable at column width - You are over length and figures (which count against the limit) are a target - A coauthor wants to "add one more panel just in case" ## Figure strategy for a Letter A Letter carries **a few high-impact figures only** — typically on the order of three or four, sometimes fewer. Every figure must earn its place against the deductible length limit (figures consume the word budget; see `prl-length-management`). The hierarchy: - **Lead figure (Fig. 1)** — conveys the central result at a glance. A physicist skimming should grasp the headline from this figure plus its caption alone. - **Supporting figures** — each makes exactly one additional point (a control, a dependence, a comparison to theory). - **Everything else** — parameter sweeps, raw traces, extended datasets → Supplemental Material. If a figure does not advance the single central claim or one essential support, move it to SM. ## Lead-figure design rules | Principle | Practice |
- When to trigger
- Figure strategy for a Letter
- Lead-figure design rules
- Production standards (column format)
- Panel discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the prl-figures skill do?
Use when designing or auditing figures for a Physical Review Letters manuscript, where a few high-impact figures must carry the central result and count against the length limit. 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 prl-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.