visualization-patterns

visualization-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst. It costs 80 tokens per session (5,612 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for making charts and graphs easier to read and understand. It covers choices such as chart type, labels, titles, colours, and a default visual style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever creating a chart, graph, dashboard, or other data visualisation from query results or written data.
Why use it?
It prevents inconsistent or misleading chart designs, such as using pie charts when bar charts make comparisons clearer. It keeps the visual focus on the main finding.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it whenever creating a chart, graph, dashboard, or other data visualisation from query results or written data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/visualization-patterns
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst --skill visualization-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,612 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 $0.00080 $0.05612
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02806
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00561

Measured 2d ago against content hash 623530a5f2e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visualization-patterns 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/visualization-patterns/SKILL.md · 440 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 440 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Visualization Patterns

Purpose

Ensure every chart Claude Code produces follows high-quality design standards with named themes, consistent styling, and clear data communication.

When to Use

Apply this skill whenever generating a chart, graph, or data visualization.

When someone asks for a pie chart

Do not make the pie. Make the sorted bar (or a single stacked bar for parts of a whole), say in one sentence why (angles and areas are hard to compare; a bar shows the same shares with direct labels), and offer the pie only if they insist after seeing the bar. Producing both "to be safe" is not the standard; the bar is the deliverable.

Default Theme: Minimal

When no theme or palette is set, use the default styling without asking; offer palette options only when the user asks about themes or colors.

The minimal theme is clean, professional, and suitable for most business contexts:

  • Warm off-white background (#F7F6F2) for reduced eye strain
  • Focus blue accent (#0072B2, an Okabe-Ito color) for the one element the takeaway argues
  • Helvetica font family
  • Left-aligned titles, minimal gridlines

The swd_style() function automatically loads the minimal theme. Other available themes: nyt, economist, corporate (see Theme Definitions section).

Instructions

STEP 1: Import the SWD helpers

Start every chart with the helpers in helpers/viz/chart_helpers.py; they set the R3 background, gray-plus-accent palette, direct labels and spine cleanup that the checkpoints verify.

from helpers.viz.chart_helpers import (
    swd_style,        # Apply SWD matplotlib theme
    highlight_bar,    # Bar chart with one bar highlighted
    highlight_line,   # Line chart with one series highlighted
    action_title,     # Action title + subtitle
    save_chart        # Save with correct DPI and tight layout
)

# Apply SWD style FIRST (loads .mplstyle, returns color palette)
colors = swd_style()

If helpers/viz/chart_helpers.py doesn't exist: Inform the user that chart helpers are missing and you'll need to implement SWD principles manually. Then proceed with manual matplotlib following the SWD principles below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 440 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. 2d ago First seen · 440 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 623530a5f2e7

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visualization-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst (298 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 5,612 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-12.

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