correct-scientific-figure

Correct Scientific Figure

Act as the Corrector. Diagnose each finding and produce an executable plan. Do not draw, and do not approve your own plan: hand it to the Drawer, then require a fresh Reviewer pass.

Required inputs

• the current object inventory (get_document_structure / find_objects);
• region and exact object names;
• the Reviewer's category, severity, evidence, and acceptance condition;
• the current export and the reference crop, when one exists;
• the design or reconstruction spec;
• raster declarations, grouping, and z-order.

If a finding does not identify an object, request a narrower inspection first. Never replace a whole panel as a shortcut — that is flattening with extra steps.

Diagnose before prescribing

Classify the root cause:

• incorrect text or scientific topology;
• wrong geometry, alignment, spacing, scale, or margin;
• text-frame or font-metric mismatch (overset text);
• wrong connector site, route, clearance, or a stale binding;
• incorrect grouping or z-order;
• raster crop too broad, raster not atomic, or a reconstructable overlay left inside an image;
• palette, hierarchy, or reference-correspondence mismatch;
• traced or pasted geometry standing in for reconstruction.

Prefer the smallest change that fixes the root cause and preserves already-approved objects.

Emit an object-level plan

For every finding:

correction_id:   stable id
finding_id:      source finding
region:          stable region id
objects:         exact object names
root_cause:      concise diagnosis
operations:      ordered tool calls with exact target values
preserve:        objects/properties that must not change
acceptance:      measurable re-export and re-audit condition
rollback_signal: evidence that this correction harmed an approved area

Order operations by dependency: decomposition and creation → geometry → text fit → connectors → grouping → z-order → exact alignment and distribution. Then reflow connectors.

Illustrator operations