figure-planner

figure-planner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for planning and checking scientific figures around the claims they need to support. It assigns a clear role to each panel and keeps figure legends and Results text aligned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define each figure's main claim, restructure panels, revise legends and titles, connect figures to the Results section, and decide what to move to the supplement.
Why use it?
Figures can become overloaded or fragmented when they are organised around plotting convenience instead of one main message. This method helps decide what belongs in the main paper and what belongs in supplementary material.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define each figure's main claim, restructure panels, revise legends and titles, connect figures to the Results section, and decide what to move to the supplement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boom5426/nature-paper-skills/figure-planner
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill figure-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,041 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.02041
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01020
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00204

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5558bb885c30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-planner 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 7d 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/core/figure-planner/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Figure Planner

Overview

Use this skill when the bottleneck is no longer sentence writing but figure logic. The goal is to make each figure carry a defensible scientific job, keep the panel set coherent, and ensure that the legend and Results text tell the same story.

This skill is narrower than manuscript-optimizer. Use manuscript-optimizer when the whole paper structure is unstable. Use figure-planner when the central issue is what each figure should prove and how each panel should function.

When To Use

Use this skill when:

  • a figure feels overloaded, fragmented, or hard to summarize
  • the paper has too many Results subsections driven by panel count
  • it is unclear what belongs in the main figure versus the supplement
  • legends, panel letters, and Results text may have drifted apart
  • you need to redesign figure titles or panel grouping around claims rather than around plotting convenience

Do not use this skill for:

  • low-level visual styling only
  • final proofreading without figure changes
  • manuscript-wide claim restructuring that exceeds the figures themselves

Core Rule

Each main figure should earn its place by carrying one dominant claim.

If a figure cannot be summarized by one clean sentence, either:

  • split it,
  • demote part of it to the supplement,
  • or rewrite the figure around a clearer claim.

Panel Roles

Assign each panel one primary role before writing the legend or Results paragraph:

  • claim-supporting evidence
  • methodological bridge or definition
  • validation under a new regime
  • ranking or benchmark comparison
  • translational or practical consequence
  • case illustration
  • failure mode or limitation

Do not let one panel pretend to do three jobs at once.

Planning Order

  1. Write the single-sentence claim of the figure.
  2. List the minimum panels needed to support that claim.
  3. Assign each panel one role.
  4. Decide which panel is the anchor panel:
    • the panel the Results paragraph should revolve around
  5. Move secondary detail to:
    • another figure
    • the supplement
    • the legend
  6. Rewrite the figure title and legend to match the actual claim.
  7. Check that the Results subsection matches the same panel logic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 7d ago Changed · +36 lines 5558bb885c30
  2. 13d ago First seen · 180 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 15b8c7dcba8c

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figure-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (490 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,041 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 2026-08-30.

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