Generate Figures Gallery

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Generates an HTML gallery of all project figures with captions and source notebooks. Use when reviewing figures.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Generate Figures Gallery skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/figures-gallery/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Create an HTML gallery page displaying all project figures with their captions and source notebooks.

Steps

  1. Scan images/ for all image files:

    • Supported formats: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .svg, .pdf
    • Record each file's name, path, and modification date
  2. Scan all registered notebooks (from _quarto.yml) for cells with fig- labels:

    • Extract the cell label (e.g., fig-sample, fig-event-study)
    • Extract the caption from #| fig-cap: or *| fig-cap: directives
    • Record the source notebook path
  3. Generate an HTML gallery page with:

    • A title and generation timestamp
    • For each figure from images/:
      • Image thumbnail (or placeholder for PDFs)
      • Filename as caption
      • File size and dimensions (if determinable)
    • For each figure from notebooks:
      • The cell label
      • The caption (from cell directive)
      • The source notebook name
      • The embed shortcode: {{< embed notebooks/<name>.ipynb#<label> >}}
    • Simple CSS styling for a grid layout
  4. Save the gallery to _manuscript/figures-gallery.html (the _manuscript/ directory is gitignored, so this output won't be committed).

  5. Report:

    • File path to the gallery
    • Count of figures from images/
    • Count of figure cells from notebooks
    • Command to open: open _manuscript/figures-gallery.html

Error handling

  • If images/ does not exist or is empty, note it and continue with notebook figures.
  • If no notebooks have fig- labeled cells, note it and continue with images/ files.
  • If both sources are empty, report "No figures found in the project."

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Source
github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills