research-academic-plotting

A tool for creating publication-ready diagrams and charts for machine-learning research papers. It can read a paper section or description and turn the described system parts and connections into figures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create architecture diagrams and other paper figures, including vector PDF files for LaTeX and high-resolution PNG files. It also saves the generation script and attempted versions.
Why use it?
It helps researchers explain technical systems visually and keep the figure-generation process reproducible.

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/graycodeai/starling/research-academic-plotting
Any agent
npx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill research-academic-plotting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 210 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 $0.00038 $0.00210
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00021

Measured yesterday against content hash 40f8deaefca6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-academic-plotting 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 yesterday.

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.

categories/ai-ml/research-academic-plotting/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Quick Reference: File Naming Convention

figures/
├── gen_fig_<name>.py      # Generation script (always save for reproducibility)
├── fig_<name>.pdf         # Final vector output (for LaTeX)
├── fig_<name>.png         # Raster output (300 DPI, for AI-generated or fallback)
└── fig_<name>_attempt*.png # Gemini attempts (keep for comparison)
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. yesterday First seen · 31 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 40f8deaefca6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-academic-plotting is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 210 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 2026-08-31.

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