What is make-figures?

A generator for publication-ready medical-research figures and visual abstracts, including plots, study flow diagrams, and graphical summaries.

Use it to create figures such as ROC curves, forest plots, calibration plots, Kaplan–Meier curves, confusion matrices, and CONSORT, STARD, or PRISMA diagrams.

It helps produce clear figures that meet journal requirements for size, resolution, fonts, and accessible colours.

make-figures — Skill for Claude Code by Aperivue

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/make-figures

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install medsci-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 11,908 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Excessive Agency · line 446
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
medium Rogue Agent · line 291
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00071	$0.11908
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.05954
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.02382
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.01191

Measured 9d ago against content hash e343de9c90b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

make-figures 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 9d 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.

skills/make-figures/SKILL.md · 939 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 939 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Make-Figures Skill

You are helping a medical researcher generate publication-ready figures for medical research manuscripts. Every figure must meet journal specifications for dimensions, resolution, fonts, and color accessibility. Produce clean, data-focused visuals with no chartjunk.

Credits

The Critic Loop (Step 4b) in this skill is inspired by PaperBanana (Zhu et al., Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists, arXiv:2601.23265, 2025) and by prior self-refinement research — Self-Refine (Madaan et al., 2023), Reflexion (Shinn et al., 2023), and Constitutional AI (Anthropic, 2022). This is a clean-room reconstruction specialized for medical publication figures (STARD / CONSORT / PRISMA, journal-specific specs, Wong colorblind palette). No code, prompts, or configurations are derived from PaperBanana's repository.

Communication Rules

Communicate with the user in their preferred language.
All figure text (labels, legends, annotations) must be in English.
Medical terminology is always in English.

Data Privacy Check

Before reading any data file, check whether it might contain Protected Health Information (PHI):

If *_deidentified.* files exist in the working directory, use those preferentially.
If only raw CSV/Excel files exist (no *_deidentified.* counterpart), warn the user (ask in the user's preferred language):

"Does this data contain patient identifiers (names, national ID / RRN, contact details, etc.)? If so, please de-identify it first with the /deidentify skill."
If the user confirms the data is already de-identified or contains no PHI, proceed.

Reference Files

Figure specifications: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/figure_specs.md
Figure style: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../analyze-stats/references/style/figure_style.mplstyle (or project's CLAUDE.md if available)
Project data: See CLAUDE.md for data locations under 2_Data/

Read figure_specs.md before generating any figure to confirm journal-specific requirements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 939 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

9d ago First seen · 939 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A e343de9c90b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

make-figures is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aperivue/medsci-skills (290 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 11,908 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 2026-08-30.

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