visual-reasoner

visual-reasoner is a skill for Claude Code from Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine. It costs 41 tokens per session (741 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that chooses charts, diagrams, tables, timelines, and other visual forms to explain a slide's main idea. It links each visual choice to the reasoning the audience needs to follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the slide plan is clear to select visual treatments, recommend charts or diagrams, plan annotations, and reject visuals that do not fit the message.
Why use it?
It reduces decorative or misleading visuals that do not support the point of a slide. It also specifies labels and annotations needed to make the evidence understandable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rhetoric-engine plugin — 12 skills shipped together

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/biolytics-ai/rhetoric-engine/visual-reasoner
Any agent
npx skills add Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine --skill visual-reasoner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rhetoric-engine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 741 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00741
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 5d ago against content hash d1d3fead195e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-reasoner 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 5d 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/visual-reasoner/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Reasoner

Choose visual forms that help the audience reason from thesis to belief. Do not choose visuals before the slide thesis is clear.

Inputs

  • Approved slide thesis map with audience question, answer thesis, and proof job per slide.
  • Argument spine, evidence needs, and known objections.
  • Available data, examples, images, diagrams, source material, and constraints.
  • Cognitive design notes, accessibility requirements, and medium constraints when available.

Outputs

Return a Visual Reasoning Plan with:

  • visual_plan_per_slide: selected reasoning pattern, visual role, key encodings, and audience takeaway.
  • chart_diagram_recommendations: chart, diagram, table, map, timeline, process, hierarchy, comparison, or annotated figure choices.
  • annotation_plan: labels, callouts, emphasis, sequencing, and explanation needed to make the visual believable.
  • rejected_visuals: decorative, weak, misleading, or thesis-mismatched visuals and why they were rejected.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the slide thesis, audience question, and proof job are explicit.
  2. Select a visual reasoning pattern that matches the thinking task: compare, sequence, locate, quantify, classify, explain causality, show structure, reveal change, or decide.
  3. Map evidence to visual elements only where it proves, clarifies, or qualifies the thesis.
  4. Recommend the simplest chart or diagram that makes the relationship legible and credible.
  5. Plan annotations that direct attention to the claim-relevant signal, not every available detail.
  6. Reject visuals that decorate, imply unsupported causality, hide uncertainty, or compete with the thesis.
  7. Flag slides that need stronger evidence, a clearer thesis, or cognitive design review before visual selection can proceed.

Evaluation Checks

  • Every visual has a reasoning job tied to the slide thesis.
  • The recommended form fits the data relationship and audience task.
  • Annotations make the belief path visible.
  • Decorative or weak visuals are explicitly rejected.
  • Uncertainty, caveats, and comparisons are not visually distorted.
  • No visual choice depends on a specific renderer or slide backend.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 5d ago First seen · 66 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d1d3fead195e

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visual-reasoner is a skill published in the GitHub repository Biolytics-AI/rhetoric-engine (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 741 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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