ALIGN skill

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name: method-figure-loop
description: ALIGN for paper figures — draw a method-overview figure as an executable p5.js program that replays its own construction in named stages, exports SVG, and improves through pixel-only cross-model review whose gate is 'explain the method back from the figure alone, and is it worth looking at'. The method sets the relationships the figure must show, the chosen visual identity sets how its marks look, a composition source lends arrangements; the method may be the source's own (意临) or yours in its arrangement (风格迁移). Not for one-shot raster image generation.
argument-hint: "[composition source] → [method to convey] → p5.js"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Skill, Artifact, mcp__codex__codex, mcp__codex__codex-reply
---

# Method Figure Loop (ALIGN) — a figure that makes itself, judged blind

> 🔒 Do not wrap this skill in `/loop`, `/schedule` or a cron. It loops internally
> (render → blind review → decide → redraw), and a round is triggered by a change
> in the figure, not by the clock.

You are given a composition source — a published method-overview figure, a
paper's or a repo's Figure 1 whose arrangement you want — a method the figure
must convey, and a medium the result must be *written in*: p5.js in a browser,
with the p5.js-svg renderer beside it so the same program renders the canvas
the reviewer sees and exports the SVG the paper prints.

**The method determines the relationships the figure must show. The chosen
visual identity determines how its marks look. The composition source supplies
useful arrangements, proportions and distinctions; borrow them where they serve
this method. The user decides the intended identity and emphasis.** A source's
missing connector, diamond, thumbnail, empty region or headline is not a reason
to retain something that fails in this figure.

You produce a page that replays the building of the figure in the order a
designer builds it, and you keep improving it until a reviewer who sees only
rendered pixels can explain the method back from the figure alone — every
move, in order, every fact — and says the figure is worth looking at, naming
no template-made tell worth another round. The user's acceptance is the last
gate, and their first look comes early, on the first complete composition,
not at the end.

Two modes, both legitimate. **意临** — the method is the source's own (the
paper's Figure 1 redrawn as a program): the source's own panels then say what
the method says, and the reviewer's explanation may be held against the paper's
method section. **风格迁移** — the arrangement from the source, a new method
(ARIS-Movie-Director's Figure 1 → ALIGN's loop): 取其法,不取其景, and nothing in
the loop judges resemblance to the source's content, only whether the work