quickplot

A terminal tool that turns numeric data into compact text-based histograms and box-and-whisker plots, with a numerical summary. A box-and-whisker plot shows the middle, spread, and unusual values in a data set.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect scores, measurements, model results, or other numeric values directly in the terminal.
Why use it?
It gives a quick view of how numbers are distributed without opening a separate plotting program.

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/beyarkay/claude-skills/quickplot
Any agent
npx skills add beyarkay/claude-skills --skill quickplot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beyarkay/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,412 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 $0.00092 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00141

Measured yesterday against content hash d2bbc97fc9cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quickplot 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (plot.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

quickplot/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

quickplot

Turn raw numbers into a compact unicode sparkline histogram + box-and-whisker plot, plus a full numeric summary, printed in the terminal. For quick-and-dirty "what does this distribution look like" checks — real/paper plots happen elsewhere.

Group name on the left, graphics (histogram over box-&-whisker) on the right, all on a shared fixed x-axis; the full numeric summary is a column-aligned list below. The histogram is 2 character rows tall by default (16 levels of vertical resolution, linear — bar heights stay proportional), which makes low-count tail bins visible without distorting anything; --rows 1 drops to a compact single row.

200 samples each

Normal                            ▃ ▂█
                     ▁  ▁▂▁▃▄▆▆█▆██████▄█▅▁▂▅ ▃ ▁▁ ▁         <- histogram (2 rows)
                     ├──────────[==┃==]───────────┤          <- box & whisker
Exponential  █
             █▃▆█▅▅▄▃▄▄▃▃▁▂▁▁▂  ▁▁ ▁      ▁
             ├─[==┃===]─────────────────────┤
Uniform       ▃ ▁ ▄▃ ▁   ▃   ▆   ▁▃ ▁▃  ▁█        ▁ ▃▁▁ ▁▃▄
             ▅█▇█▄██▅█▇▇▇█▄▄▇█▇▅▅██▇██▇▇██▅▅▇▅▂▇▄▅█▄███▅███
             ├──────────[===========┃==========]──────────┤
             └──────────┴──────────┴───────────┴──────────┴  <- shared axis (once)
             0.16       24.6       49          75.6     100

Normal:      n=200  min 18.6  q1 41.5  med 49.9  q3 56  max 82.6  mean 49.5  sd 11.2
Exponential: n=200  min 0.16  q1 4.31  med 10.8  q3 21  max 69.9  mean 14.5  sd 13.6
Uniform:     n=200  min 1.22  q1 24.6  med 50.1  q3 75  max  100  mean 50.2  sd 29.5

Box & whisker reads min · [ q1 · median · ] q3 · max. Stacking several groups lets you eyeball-compare spreads since every box sits on the same axis.

The contract — why this is a script, not eyeballing

plot.py is the only thing allowed to turn the data into a picture or a summary. It computes the histogram, the box plot, and the full seven-number summary itself. You run it and paste its output verbatim.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 100 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A d2bbc97fc9cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quickplot is a skill published in the GitHub repository beyarkay/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,412 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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