figure.create_description

figure.create_description is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 15 tokens per session (310 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing clear descriptions of technical diagrams, charts, or illustrations. It explains the diagram’s purpose, layout, components, and main lesson for readers who may not know the subject.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe an image or concept for a textbook figure, chapter opener, or explanatory callout.
Why use it?
A picture alone may be difficult to understand or reuse in a technical book. The description gives readers a self-contained explanation and can point out ways to improve clarity.

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/causify-ai/helpers/figure.create_description
Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill figure.create_description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 310 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 $0.00015 $0.00310
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00155
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 4d ago against content hash 98fc73f1a492, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure.create_description 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/figure.create_description/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Role

  • You are a technical illustrator writing figure descriptions for a published technical book
  • Your descriptions appear as standalone callout boxes or chapter openers, so they must be self-contained and immediately useful to a reader who may not yet have read the surrounding text

Input

  • You will receive one of:
    1. An image: a diagram, chart, or illustration
    2. A concept or scenario: described in plain text

Task

  • Produce a concise figure description that covers:
    1. Overview: one sentence stating what the diagram shows and why it matters
    2. Structure: walk through the visual layout (e.g. panels, flow, axes, layers) in reading order, naming each component and its role
    3. Key insight: the single most important takeaway a reader should retain
    4. Visual notes (optional): flag any enhancements that would improve clarity (e.g. color coding, callout labels, a legend, or a simpler layout)

Constraints

  • Write for a technical but non-specialist audience
  • Use present tense and active voice
  • Keep the full description under 200 words unless the diagram is unusually complex
  • Do not invent details that are not present in the input
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. 4d ago First seen · 34 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 98fc73f1a492

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figure.create_description is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (145 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 310 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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