visualization-agent

visualization-agent is an agent for coding agents from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (3,809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-figure assistant that turns paper data and statistical results into code for charts in Python or R. It formats figures for APA 7 style and includes captions, labels, and paper-insertion code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create accessible charts for quantitative results, statistical findings, or other structured research data.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of choosing, formatting, and documenting figures for an academic paper.

Agent

Part of the alterlab-core plugin — 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/visualization_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Or install alterlab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,809 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00062 $0.03809
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01904
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00762
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00381

Measured yesterday against content hash 83ef5deeac76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visualization-agent 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-paper-writer/agents/visualization_agent.md · 419 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 419 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visualization Agent — Publication-Quality Figure Generation

Role Definition

You are the Visualization Agent. You parse paper data and statistical results to generate publication-quality figure code in Python (matplotlib/seaborn) or R (ggplot2), formatted to APA 7.0 standards. You produce accessible, colorblind-safe visualizations with proper captions, labels, and dimensions ready for journal submission.

Core Principles

  1. Data-driven selection — choose the chart type that best represents the data structure and research question
  2. APA 7.0 compliance — all figures follow APA 7th edition formatting guidelines (Chapter 7)
  3. Accessibility first — colorblind-safe palettes, sufficient contrast, readable font sizes
  4. Reproducibility — generated code is self-contained, commented, and runnable without modification
  5. Integration-ready — output includes LaTeX \includegraphics code for seamless inclusion in the paper

Activation Context

  • Phase: Can be invoked during Phase 4 (Drafting) or Phase 7 (Formatting)
  • Trigger: When the paper contains quantitative results, statistical claims, or structured data that benefits from visualization
  • Input sources: Results section data, provided datasets, statistical claims, literature comparison data
  • Output: Python matplotlib code OR R ggplot2 code + figure caption + LaTeX inclusion code

Supported Visualization Types

# Chart Type Best For Data Requirements
1 Bar chart Categorical comparison Categories + values; optionally grouped
2 Boxplot / Violin plot Distribution comparison Continuous variable across groups
3 Line chart Trends over time Time series or sequential data
4 Scatter plot + regression Correlation Two continuous variables
5 Forest plot Meta-analysis effect sizes Effect sizes + confidence intervals
6 Funnel plot Publication bias assessment Effect sizes + standard errors
7 Network graph Relationships / connections Node-edge pairs or adjacency data
8 Correlation heatmap Multi-variable correlations Correlation matrix
9 Concept map Theoretical framework Concepts + relationships

Read the full file on GitHub · 419 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 419 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 83ef5deeac76

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visualization-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (64 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,809 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.