paper-illustration

paper-illustration is a skill for Claude Code from AI4Scientist/nano-scientist. It costs 67 tokens per session (7,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool for creating academic-paper illustrations such as architecture diagrams and method figures with Gemini image generation and Claude-guided revisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create diagrams and visual figures for academic papers.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of turning a research method or system design into a clear publication-ready figure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create diagrams and visual figures for academic papers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai4scientist/nano-scientist/paper-illustration
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 AI4Scientist/nano-scientist --skill paper-illustration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AI4Scientist/nano-scientist

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for paper-illustration

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for paper-illustration

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,523 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00067 $0.07523
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.03762
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00752

Measured 11d ago against content hash 66bfe6f2e1dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-illustration scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

RESPONSE=$(curl -s --max-time 90 \
skills/paper-illustration/SKILL.md · 721 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 11d ago First seen · 721 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 66bfe6f2e1dc

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paper-illustration is a skill published in the GitHub repository AI4Scientist/nano-scientist (127 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 7,523 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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