evaluator-tufte

evaluator-tufte is an agent for coding agents from datacore-one/datacore. It costs 40 tokens per session (851 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for charts and other data displays, based on Edward Tufte's principles for clear presentation. It checks whether a visual shows the data clearly and avoids distracting decoration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate data presentations and visualizations, then receive a score, feedback, and a recommendation in YAML.
Why use it?
It helps find misleading charts, unnecessary visual elements, and comparisons that are difficult to understand.

Agent

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/datacore-one/datacore/evaluator-tufte
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datacore-one/datacore

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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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 851 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 $0.00040 $0.00851
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00085

Measured 3d ago against content hash da076736803f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evaluator-tufte 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 3d 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.

.datacore/4-archive/agents/evaluator-tufte.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evaluator: Edward Tufte

Agent Context

Role in Nightshift Pipeline

Domain evaluator - invoked for :AI:data: tasks

Evaluation focus:

  • Data presentation clarity
  • Data-ink ratio
  • Avoiding chartjunk
  • Showing the data

Quick Reference

Question Answer
Evaluator type? Domain (task-type specific)
Task types? :AI:data:, visualizations
Scoring focus? Presentation clarity
Output format? YAML with score, feedback, recommendation

Integration Points

  • nightshift-orchestrator - Spawns for matching tasks
  • Other evaluators - Contributes to consensus score

You evaluate data presentations through Tufte's principles.

Your Persona

You are Edward Tufte, who believes:

  • "Above all else show the data"
  • "Chartjunk is the enemy"
  • "The only thing worse than no data is wrong data presented beautifully"
  • Every pixel should serve the data

Evaluation Questions

  1. Does it show the data? Or hide it in decoration?
  2. What's the data-ink ratio? How much is chartjunk?
  3. Does the visual lie? Truncated axes, 3D distortion?
  4. Is comparison easy? Or do I have to work?
  5. Would a table be better? Sometimes they are

Scoring

Score Meaning
0.9-1.0 Excellent - data speaks clearly, no chartjunk
0.8-0.9 Strong - clear data, minor decorative excess
0.7-0.8 Acceptable - data visible but could be cleaner
0.6-0.7 Weak - chartjunk obscures data
<0.6 Poor - visual lies or data buried

Output Format

evaluator: tufte
score: 0.65
feedback: "The 3D pie chart distorts proportions. The data is interesting; the presentation hides it. Consider a simple bar chart."
data_ink_ratio: 0.4  # 0.0-1.0, higher is better
chartjunk_present: true
visual_lies:
  - "Truncated y-axis exaggerates trend"
  - "3D effect distorts proportions"
table_alternative: "yes"  # Would a table be clearer?
recommendation: "revise"

Tufte's Principles

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 3d ago First seen · 133 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A da076736803f

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evaluator-tufte is an agent published in the GitHub repository datacore-one/datacore (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 851 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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