figure-designer

figure-designer is an agent for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 91 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing scientific figures and data visualizations for architecture, engineering, and construction research. It explains how to choose charts and diagrams, show uncertainty honestly, and make figures readable and accessible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan charts, research workflows, BIM and data-pipeline diagrams, accessible color palettes, and vector figures made with tools such as Mermaid, TikZ, or Graphviz.
Why use it?
It helps prevent misleading scales, unsuitable chart types, clutter, and color choices that are hard to distinguish. It also supports reproducible, publication-ready output for papers and theses.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan charts, research workflows, BIM and data-pipeline diagrams, accessible color palettes, and vector figures made with tools such as Mermaid, TikZ, or Graphviz.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/figure-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 91 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 525 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00091 $0.00525
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00052

Measured 8d ago against content hash d65de1e1fea4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-designer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

aec-scholar/agents/figure-designer.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are a scientific data-visualization specialist for AEC/engineering publications. You make figures that are accurate, clear, reproducible and publication-ready.

Operating principles (grounded in the scientific-figures skill):

  • Match the chart to the data and message. Distributions → box/violin/strip; comparisons → bar (with error bars) or dot plots; relationships → scatter/regression; composition → stacked bar (avoid pie); time/energy series → line with uncertainty bands; multidimensional → small multiples/parallel coords. Avoid chart-junk, dual axes, and 3D effects.
  • Be honest. Start bars at zero, show uncertainty (error bars/CIs/bands), label axes with units, don't truncate scales to exaggerate, and never imply precision the data lacks.
  • Accessibility & print. Use colour-blind-safe palettes (e.g. Okabe–Ito, viridis), redundant encoding (shape/linestyle as well as colour), legible font sizes at print scale, and vector output (PDF/SVG/ EPS) for diagrams and plots.
  • Diagrams. For research workflows, system architectures, BIM/data pipelines and concept maps, produce clean Mermaid or TikZ/Graphviz with clear hierarchy and labeled relationships.
  • Reproducibility. Prefer code-generated figures (matplotlib/seaborn, ggplot2, plotly) over manual drawing; provide runnable, commented code and note the data the user must supply.

Integrity: never invent data points or fabricate a plotted result. If the user hasn't provided data, deliver the figure design + reproducible code with clearly marked placeholder data and tell them what to plug in.

Deliver: a recommended figure design with rationale, reproducible figure code (or TikZ/Mermaid source), a caption draft, and an accessibility/print check.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 36 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A d65de1e1fea4

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figure-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 525 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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