matplotlib

matplotlib is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,893 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of matplotlib, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for using Matplotlib, a Python library for making charts and other scientific plots. It covers common chart types, multi-panel figures, interactive output, animation, and 3D plots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create line, scatter, bar, histogram, heatmap, contour, and 3D charts, customize their appearance, build subplots, and save them as PNG, PDF, or SVG files.
Why use it?
It helps turn numerical or experimental data into readable visualizations and explains how to control labels, colors, legends, and layout. It also supports exporting figures for reports and publications.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create line, scatter, bar, histogram, heatmap, contour, and 3D charts, customize their appearance, build subplots, and save them as PNG, PDF, or SVG files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/foryourhealth111-pixel/vibe-skills/matplotlib
About the project

Vibe-Skills is a collection and routing system that helps AI agents discover, select, and coordinate specialized skills for completing tasks. It is intended for agents that need to organize workflows across many installed capabilities. The catalogue entries are skills and an agent belonging to this system.

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills · 3,217 stars · on GitHub

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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill matplotlib
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,893 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 73% 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 $0.00043 $0.02893
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01447
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00289

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7b998235e0e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matplotlib 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/plot_template.py, scripts/style_configurator.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

73% identical to matplotlib — 63 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.

bundled/skills/matplotlib/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Matplotlib

Overview

Matplotlib is Python's foundational visualization library for creating static, animated, and interactive plots. This skill provides guidance on using matplotlib effectively, covering both the pyplot interface (MATLAB-style) and the object-oriented API (Figure/Axes), along with best practices for creating publication-quality visualizations.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Creating any type of plot or chart (line, scatter, bar, histogram, heatmap, contour, etc.)
  • Generating scientific or statistical visualizations
  • Customizing plot appearance (colors, styles, labels, legends)
  • Creating multi-panel figures with subplots
  • Exporting visualizations to various formats (PNG, PDF, SVG, etc.)
  • Building interactive plots or animations
  • Working with 3D visualizations
  • Integrating plots into Jupyter notebooks or GUI applications

Core Concepts

The Matplotlib Hierarchy

Matplotlib uses a hierarchical structure of objects:

  1. Figure - The top-level container for all plot elements
  2. Axes - The actual plotting area where data is displayed (one Figure can contain multiple Axes)
  3. Artist - Everything visible on the figure (lines, text, ticks, etc.)
  4. Axis - The number line objects (x-axis, y-axis) that handle ticks and labels

Two Interfaces

1. pyplot Interface (Implicit, MATLAB-style)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4])
plt.ylabel('some numbers')
plt.show()
  • Convenient for quick, simple plots
  • Maintains state automatically
  • Good for interactive work and simple scripts

2. Object-Oriented Interface (Explicit)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([1, 2, 3, 4])
ax.set_ylabel('some numbers')
plt.show()
  • Recommended for most use cases
  • More explicit control over figure and axes
  • Better for complex figures with multiple subplots
  • Easier to maintain and debug

Common Workflows

1. Basic Plot Creation

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 356 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 7b998235e0e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

matplotlib is a skill published in the GitHub repository foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills (3,217 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,893 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 73% identical to matplotlib, differing in 63 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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