Grant Figure Qa

Grant Figure QA

Routes a grant proposal's figures to an independent, fresh-context QA reviewer that checks every figure for NIH/NSF compliance (resolution, dimensions, fonts, color accessibility, content, captions) and returns a structured report. This skill is a thin dispatcher: the full checklist and report format live in references/figure-qa-procedure.md.

When to use

Activate when preparing a grant for submission and the figures need a compliance and accessibility pass, or when the user asks to check proposal figures.

Why a fresh-context reviewer

A compliance pass is more trustworthy from a reviewer that did not author the figures. Run it in a separate context and pass only the proposal directory and target agency. On tools without subagents, run the procedure inline.

Dispatch

In every branch the reviewer follows references/figure-qa-procedure.md.

• Claude Code: Task(subagent_type: "grant-figure-qa", ...) passing the proposal directory and agency (NIH/NSF). Honor a no-qa opt-out by returning immediately.
• Codex CLI: plugin installation exposes this skill, not a Codex subagent. To use a fresh-context Codex reviewer, first copy agents/templates/grant-figure-qa.toml to ~/.codex/agents/ or .codex/agents/, then invoke that configured agent if the current Codex surface supports /agent. If no Codex subagent is configured or available, use the fallback branch.
• Copilot CLI: plugin installation exposes this skill and, through .github/plugin/plugin.json, the .agent.md reviewer in agents/templates/. Invoke that configured agent when the current Copilot surface supports custom agents. If running outside a plugin install, copy agents/templates/grant-figure-qa.agent.md to .github/agents/ or ~/.copilot/agents/. If no custom agent is available, use the fallback branch.
• Fallback (no subagent support, or an interactive in-thread check): first locate the procedure ($CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/grant-figure-qa/references, else find . -type d -path '*/skills/grant-figure-qa/references' | head -1); if it cannot be found, stop and tell the user to install the grant plugin rather than guessing requirements. Then follow references/figure-qa-procedure.md directly.

The brain (do not duplicate into dispatch or agent shells)

• references/figure-qa-procedure.md -- locate figures, resolution/dimensions, fonts, color accessibility, content, captions, and the report format, with the NIH/NSF requirement thresholds.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: neuromechanist
• Source: neuromechanist/research-skills
• License: BSD-3-Clause

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.