Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standardsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00693 | $0.00693 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00347 | $0.00347 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00139 | $0.00139 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00069 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
scientific-figure-standards AGENTS.md 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Scientific Figure Standards
Use these instructions whenever this project involves scientific plotting, manuscript figures, model-result charts, maps, GeoTIFF/raster visualization, or publication exports.
Required First Question
Before creating or editing any figure, ask which output version is required unless already specified:
with_text: keep labels, units, tick labels, legends, colorbar labels, panel labels, and necessary annotations.no_text: keep the same text objects and layout positions aswith_text, but make text invisible/transparent. Do not delete labels, tick labels, legends, colorbar labels, panel labels, annotations, or map graticule labels if deletion changes spacing.both: generate separate_with_textand_no_textoutputs.
Template-First Rule
When the requested figure resembles an existing pattern, start from templates/ rather than re-creating the style from prose:
scatter_regression.pyscenario_bar.pycumulative_distribution.pybroken_axis_bar.pyshap_swarm.pyglobal_raster_map.py
Hard Defaults
- Use English figure text by default.
- Use Arial first, with Helvetica and DejaVu Sans as fallbacks.
- Use a white background.
- Use complete axes/spines by default for ordinary scientific plots.
- Use restrained, publication-style palettes; do not use rainbow, random, or default matplotlib colors when a house palette applies.
- For world maps, show left-edge latitude labels and bottom-edge longitude labels; default ticks are
xlocs=[-90, 0, 90]andylocs=[90, 60, 30, 0, -30, -60, -90], with unrotated size-10 labels. - For no-text maps, keep those graticule labels as transparent placeholders.
- For submission figures, export PNG at 300 dpi, TIFF at 300 dpi, and PDF by default.
- Do not generate SVG by default unless explicitly requested or required by the target journal.
- Use panel labels
a,b,cwithout parentheses for multi-panel submission figures. - Use
bbox_inches="tight"andfacecolor="white"for saved figures. - Set
svg.fonttype = "none"andpdf.fonttype = 42before vector export.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 693 tokens per session scan A e08d25511958
scientific-figure-standards AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zzz20020612/scientific-figure-standards (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 693 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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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