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schematics
Creates or refines publication-quality technical diagrams with the native generate_image tool (Nano Banana Pro through Ace or a Gemini key, GPT Image 2 through an OpenAI key), method and architecture overviews, pipelines, CONSORT and PRISMA flows, experimental workflows, biological pathways, circuits and conceptual schematics, described component by component, rendered under publication standards, scored against a document-type threshold and re-rendered once from the critique. Use for any figure whose content is structure rather than data. Not for plots of measured numbers (use figures) and not for illustrations or artwork (use generate-image). Never hand-drawn as TikZ or SVG.
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# Schematics
A methodology diagram carries the paper's central idea in one glance, and it is the figure
most often faked: outdated palettes, boxes that say nothing, arrows that go the wrong way,
components the text never mentions. Image models draw clean diagrams with legible text when
they are told the publication standards on every call and their output is judged against a
rubric, not admired. This skill is that loop: describe the diagram precisely, render it under
the standards, score it, and re-render once from the critique.
## The medium
- `generate_image` with `purpose: "schematic"` is the medium for every diagram. The tool
prepends the publication framing (white background, one sans-serif face, Okabe-Ito palette
with one accent, one reading direction, verbatim labels, no invented parts, no figure