create-viz

A procedure for turning data into clear charts with Python, a programming language. It helps choose a chart type and prepare data for reports, presentations, dashboards, or exploration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create charts from query results, tables, CSV or Excel files, or data already discussed. It can produce static or interactive visualizations with features such as hover and zoom.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork about which chart best communicates a trend or comparison. It also covers loading pasted, file-based, or queried data and handling common data issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/create-viz
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill create-viz
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,202 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 $0.00055 $0.01202
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00601
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3b13a9c2c9d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-viz 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

data/skills/create-viz/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/create-viz - Create Visualizations

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Create publication-quality data visualizations using Python. Generates charts from data with best practices for clarity, accuracy, and design.

Usage

/create-viz <data source> [chart type] [additional instructions]

Workflow

1. Understand the Request

Determine:

  • Data source: Query results, pasted data, CSV/Excel file, or data to be queried
  • Chart type: Explicitly requested or needs to be recommended
  • Purpose: Exploration, presentation, report, dashboard component
  • Audience: Technical team, executives, external stakeholders

2. Get the Data

If data warehouse is connected and data needs querying:

  1. Write and execute the query
  2. Load results into a pandas DataFrame

If data is pasted or uploaded:

  1. Parse the data into a pandas DataFrame
  2. Clean and prepare as needed (type conversions, null handling)

If data is from a previous analysis in the conversation:

  1. Reference the existing data

3. Select Chart Type

If the user didn't specify a chart type, recommend one based on the data and question:

Data Relationship Recommended Chart
Trend over time Line chart
Comparison across categories Bar chart (horizontal if many categories)
Part-to-whole composition Stacked bar or area chart (avoid pie charts unless <6 categories)
Distribution of values Histogram or box plot
Correlation between two variables Scatter plot
Two-variable comparison over time Dual-axis line or grouped bar
Geographic data Choropleth map
Ranking Horizontal bar chart
Flow or process Sankey diagram
Matrix of relationships Heatmap

Explain the recommendation briefly if the user didn't specify.

4. Generate the Visualization

Write Python code using one of these libraries based on the need:

  • matplotlib + seaborn: Best for static, publication-quality charts. Default choice.
  • plotly: Best for interactive charts or when the user requests interactivity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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 · 155 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 3b13a9c2c9d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-viz is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,791 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,202 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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