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name: recreate-scientific-figure-in-drawio description: Recreate, design, inspect, refine, or export scientific figures live in the visible draw.io desktop canvas through draw.io's graph API. Use as the draw.io Drawer for step-by-step editable reconstruction or clean no-reference design with text/shapes/lines, composite tables/charts, atomic images, exact layout operations, and repeated structure-plus-renderer quality gates.

Recreate Scientific Figure in draw.io

Act as the draw.io Drawer in the four-role Sivia protocol. Use MCP tools beginning with drawio_live_. Match the PowerPoint adapter's semantic result and acceptance gate even when draw.io represents tables and charts as editable composites.

Respect read-only requests

If the user requests inspection only, call drawio_live_get_capabilities, connect only when needed to read the current canvas, then call drawio_live_status and drawio_live_inspect. Do not clear, add, update, save, or close anything.

Establish a safe live session

1. Call drawio_live_get_capabilities before selecting cell types.
2. Launch or connect visibly, call drawio_live_status, and require graph_ready=true.
3. Inspect the existing live model before editing it.
4. Control only draw.io's graph/model API; never use operating-system mouse, keyboard, window, or full-screen automation.
5. Do not clear an existing canvas without explicit confirmation.
6. Do not prebuild XML as the drawing method. Save a snapshot only after the cells visibly exist.

Use file utilities only to validate, inspect, or export an already saved live snapshot. Reopen and visually review any narrowly repaired file.

Map the shared semantic contract

Semantic object/operation	draw.io implementation
Editable text	drawio_live_add_shape with shape=text
Editable symbol/panel	drawio_live_add_shape using a baseline or currently registered capability name/style
Free arrow/axis/tick	drawio_live_add_line with endpoint clearances
Attached relationship	drawio_live_add_edge with entry/exit and waypoints
Editable table	drawio_live_add_table, cell updates, and drawio_live_update_table_layout
Editable regular chart	drawio_live_add_chart or deliberate editable primitives
Repeated motif	duplicate, group/ungroup, and z-order tools
Exact layout	drawio_live_align_cells and drawio_live_distribute_cells
Structure review	drawio_live_audit_figure plus drawio_live_inspect
Renderer review	drawio_live_screenshot

Use editable cells or editable composites for every reconstructable semantic object. Never substitute a panel screenshot.

Never invent a shape name. Unknown or unloaded shape/stencil names are rejected to prevent draw.io silently displaying a generic rectangle. If the required object is not listed by drawio_live_get_capabilities, construct it from editable primitives; use an atomic image only when the smallest remaining semantic region is genuinely irreducible.

Inventory before drawing

For a newly designed overview, read Overview Narrative and follow its main-group/expansion mapping. Give title and L3 cells stable ids and prepare disposable review views. This does not authorize redesign of a supplied reconstruction reference.

Use the Designer's specification or extract an inventory from the reference. Assign stable ids, bounds, parent group, construction order, and z-order. Classify every item as editable text, shape, free line, connector, table/chart composite, repeated motif, or irreducible raster field.

Enforce atomic images

When the inventory contains non-native artwork, empirical fields or cropped assets, read Asset Production completely before inserting them. Prefer supported editable cells/composites for reconstructable geometry; an embedded SVG is not editable child cells. Follow its source-export, standalone-illustration and retained-pixel rules while retaining this adapter's pacing.

Use drawio_live_add_image only for one tightly scoped irreducible visual field. Require:

• a specific raster_reason;
• source_is_tightly_cropped=true or explicit crop percentages;
• atomic_raster_unit=true;
• contains_reconstructable_content=false;
• a precise decomposition_note.

Split prediction grids, mask comparisons, channel stacks, microscopy arrays, and before/after blocks into separate image cells. Rebuild all text, frames, grid lines, legends, arrows, axes, tables, and regular plots as editable cells.

Draw one region at a time

1. Establish page/canvas bounds, grid, margins, panel rectangles, alignment anchors, spacing tokens, z-order, and connector lanes.
2. Draw one logical region from background to foreground with stable ids and nonzero pacing.
3. Keep labels in explicit text cells with planned bounds and wrapping.
4. Use attached edges for semantic relationships; use free lines for axes, ticks, separators, and annotations.
5. Apply start/end clearance and deliberate entry/exit points so arrows touch boundaries without covering fills or labels.
6. Use exact align/distribute and table-layout tools instead of visual guessing.
7. Group a region only after its members remain editable and its local gate passes.

Mandatory Reviewer-Corrector loop

After each completed region:

1. Fit the current canvas and capture drawio_live_screenshot.
2. Run drawio_live_audit_figure and inspect named cells.
3. Give structure and renderer evidence to $audit-scientific-figure.
4. If it reports any finding, give the findings to $correct-scientific-figure.
5. Execute the returned object-level operations.
6. Capture and audit again.

Do not draw the next region until the Reviewer reports no unresolved finding except documented source ambiguity. After all regions pass, run the same loop on the whole canvas until it passes.

Acceptance gate

Use the Reviewer's evidence gates: correct readable semantics, native reconstructable content, no clipping or ambiguous routing, zero unresolved hard findings and a supported visual verdict. For overviews, coverage spans main groups and linked expansions. Record target-rendering, physical-size legibility and narrative as pass, fail or pending; no self-assigned confidence threshold substitutes for missing renderer evidence.

Delivery

Inspect once more, save with drawio_live_save_snapshot, validate the .drawio, and export a review image. Report stable object counts, native/composite/group counts, image count, every raster declaration, local and whole-canvas Reviewer results, validation, and remaining ambiguity.