ai-asset-pricing: Skill for Claude Code

Publication-Ready Figures

For this repo, the production plotting toolkit is fintools.figures. Read docs/ai/figures.md first, then choose the plotting path deliberately:

• Use native fintools.figures helpers for repo work, Word proof packs, validation checks, and dataframe-to-figure suites.
• Use style="fins" for the house publication style and style="ft" for FT-style output.
• Use the legacy skill-local finance.mplstyle / figutils.py assets only when the user explicitly wants the older standalone helper style or needs a portable snippet outside the package workflow.

To recreate the FT validation gallery:

python tools/figure_examples.py --style ft --docx --output results/figures

To recreate the house-style gallery:

python tools/figure_examples.py --style fins --docx --output results/figures

Generated PNG/PDF/DOCX/caption files belong under ignored results/figures/ paths. Do not commit maintainer proof packs or local gallery outputs.

Apply these conventions whenever creating figures. The goal: every figure Claude produces is publication-ready by default — no manual cleanup needed.

Legacy Helper Quick Start

Prefer fintools.figures for this repo. The helper assets below remain available for standalone or explicitly requested legacy publication-style plots.

Copy finance.mplstyle from this skill directory into the project, then:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use('path/to/finance.mplstyle')

Or apply inline (no file needed):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams.update({
    'font.family': 'serif',
    'font.serif': ['Times New Roman', 'STIXGeneral', 'DejaVu Serif'],
    'mathtext.fontset': 'stix',
    'font.size': 9,
    'axes.labelsize': 9,
    'xtick.labelsize': 8,
    'ytick.labelsize': 8,
    'legend.fontsize': 8,
    'axes.linewidth': 0.6,
    'axes.spines.top': False,
    'axes.spines.right': False,
    'lines.linewidth': 1.2,
    'xtick.direction': 'out',
    'ytick.direction': 'out',
    'legend.frameon': False,
    'figure.dpi': 150,
    'savefig.dpi': 600,
    'savefig.format': 'pdf',
    'pdf.fonttype': 42,
})