figure-discussion

figure-discussion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from equinor/neqsim. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,990 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing workflow for explaining what a chart or other figure shows in a scientific paper, book chapter, or task report. Each explanation connects the observation to its cause, meaning, and recommended action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing the discussion section for a figure in scientific writing or book production. It is not for creating figures or writing captions.
Why use it?
It prevents figures from appearing without an explanation of why they matter. Readers can understand the result without having to work out the conclusion from the graphic themselves.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing the discussion section for a figure in scientific writing or book production. It is not for creating figures or writing captions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/equinor/neqsim/figure-discussion
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 equinor/neqsim --skill figure-discussion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/equinor/neqsim

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,990 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 $0.00018 $0.01990
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00995
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00199

Measured 8d ago against content hash 32f6a1ddc11e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-discussion 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/skills/figure-discussion/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Figure Discussion (observation → mechanism → implication → recommendation)

When to Use

USE WHEN: writing the discussion of a figure in a paper, book chapter, or task report. Every figure that appears in a deliverable MUST have an accompanying discussion block that follows this contract. Loaded by scientific-writer, book-author, narrative-framer, and the solve.task.agent workflow.

DO NOT USE for: figure generation (use generate_publication_figures), captions only (captions are a separate, terser artefact).


Core principle

A figure that appears in a deliverable without a corresponding discussion block is a wasted figure. Reviewers and readers should be able to read the figure → discussion pair and walk away knowing what the figure shows, why it shows that, what it means, and what to do about it, in that order, without having to reverse-engineer the conclusion from the plot.

This skill ports the contract from task_solve/ results.json figure_discussion[] blocks to the paper / book authoring pipeline.


The four-part contract

Every figure discussion block has exactly four parts. Each is one to three sentences. The block lives immediately after the figure in the manuscript (paper.md or chapter.md) or in the corresponding results.json field.

1. Observation — what the figure shows

State what the figure shows, with numbers. Do not describe the plot ("a downward-sloping line"); describe the result ("the iteration count drops from 28 to 16 as n_components increases from 4 to 12").

Rules:

  • Always include at least one number with its unit.
  • Always state the trend in scientific, not graphical, terms.
  • Reference the figure number explicitly.

2. Mechanism — why it shows that

Explain the underlying physics, numerics, or algorithm. Tie back to an equation from the methods section or a NeqSim Java class.

Rules:

  • Reference an equation by number (Eq. 7) or a Java class (SystemSrkEos).
  • One sentence on the dominant mechanism is enough; do not hand-wave with multiple competing explanations.
  • If the mechanism is unclear, say so — do not invent one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 8d ago First seen · 206 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 32f6a1ddc11e

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figure-discussion is a skill published in the GitHub repository equinor/neqsim (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,990 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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