figure-style

figure-style is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills. It costs 226 tokens per session (4,516 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of figure-style, MIT.

A set of rules for making final scientific figures accurate, readable, and internally consistent. It applies to figures kept in papers, reports, exports, or other deliverables, rather than quick exploratory plots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing publication figures, report charts, exported plots, or other scientific graphics that need a final quality check.
Why use it?
It catches problems such as unclear labels, misleading scales, and inconsistent presentation before a figure is shared. The rules focus on correctness and legibility without requiring one fixed visual style.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when preparing publication figures, report charts, exported plots, or other scientific graphics that need a final quality check.

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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 226 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,516 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.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00226 $0.04516
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.02258
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00903
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00452

Measured 7d ago against content hash 01f9621c74ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-style 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (kernel.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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to figure-style — 137 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/figure/figure-style/SKILL.md · 358 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Publication-Grade Figure Rules

A checklist for correct, legible, internally-consistent scientific figures. This skill does not impose a visual house style — frame, font, and palette are parameters. Once loaded, call apply_figure_style() before plotting.

Dependencies

The prose checklist (§0–§9) is dependency-free: it is guidance you apply by hand. The kernel.py helpers require matplotlib, numpy, and scipy (scipy.stats.t, used by bar_with_points(errorbar="ci95") for the t-distribution 95% CI). In a plain skill install the helpers are not auto-loaded by a host kernel; load them explicitly before calling apply_figure_style() and the other helpers, e.g. exec(open("kernel.py").read()) or import the module (import kernel).

§0 Scope

Load trigger: this skill is for final-deliverable figures — those shipping in a report, paper, or export, or saved as an artifact the user will keep — not for exploratory/intermediate plots (quick looks, EDA, sanity checks), which are drawn plainly without it. Once loaded, "every plot" below means every plot you render toward the deliverable.

§1–§3, §8, and §9 are correctness — they apply to every plot, in every context, and have no aesthetic content. §4–§7 are guidance — defaults that produce a clean result but that a deliberate alternative can override (individual rules inside §4–§7 that state a factual/perceptual invariant — e.g. §4.4 semantic-zero centering, §4.5 CVD, §6.9 leader anchoring — still bind). On its own, this skill is the inner tier (make one plot good); figure-planner supplies per-figure planning (one claim per figure, panel roles) and nature-figure supplies the full multi-panel, whole-paper production workflow.


§1 Data fidelity & self-consistency

1.1 Excluded rows. A row marked excluded or flagged in the source data is either omitted entirely or drawn with a visually distinct open/hatched marker and named in the key. It never enters a summary statistic plotted alongside the included rows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 358 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. 7d ago Changed · +5 lines 01f9621c74ff
  2. 12d ago First seen · 353 lines · 226 tokens per session scan A baca87c795c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figure-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (490 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 226 tokens to every session and 4,516 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to figure-style, differing in 137 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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