hvplot

hvplot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (4,477 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A Python plotting guide for turning tables and multidimensional datasets into charts with a Pandas-style interface. It supports data from Pandas, Polars, Xarray, DuckDB, Dask, and GeoPandas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create interactive charts for tabular data, time series, geographic data, and large datasets. It also covers hover details, dimensions, layouts, styling, and statistical plots.
Why use it?
It helps avoid incorrect plotting patterns and makes it easier to choose charts, labels, and interactions that clearly show what the data means.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills/hvplot
Any agent
npx skills add holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills --skill hvplot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,477 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 5.1 $0.00079 $0.04477
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02239
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00895
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00448

Measured 6d ago against content hash dfabd3005c3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hvplot 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.

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.

developing-with-holoviz/skills/hvplot/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hvPlot

This skill provides correct patterns and common pitfalls for hvPlot to visualize data interactively.

Before plotting, consider: what story does the data tell? What comparison matters most? Then choose the plot type, encoding, and labels that make that story obvious. For publication-quality figures needing fine-grained control, use HoloViews directly with the Matplotlib backend instead of Bokeh.

Contents

References

Read these for specialized topics. Each is a standalone document you can load on demand.

  • Composing Exploratory Plots — layered marks (violin/box/scatter), shared-axis layout for comparison, overlay discipline, faceting around the nested-categorical-axis limit, ordered categoricals, cross-filtering with linked selections
  • Distilling Explanatory Plots — one-message charts for an audience: takeaway title, gray context + one highlight, direct inline labels, in-place annotation, killing chart junk, assuming no interaction

Lookup

  • Plotting options by group (axes, geographic, styling, resampling): https://hvplot.holoviz.org/en/docs/latest/ref/plotting_options/{group}.html
  • Anything else: web-search https://hvplot.holoviz.org/search.html?q=<topic>.

Dependencies

Activate the .hvplot accessor with the appropriate backend import: import hvplot.pandas, hvplot.polars, hvplot.xarray, hvplot.duckdb, or hvplot.dask. Backends like Polars and DuckDB must be installed separately. Optional: datashader for resampling, geoviews or geopandas for geographic data. Prefer the Bokeh backend (default) for interactivity, Matplotlib for static/print output, Plotly as a last resort.

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 339 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A dfabd3005c3e

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hvplot is a skill published in the GitHub repository holoviz-dev/holoviz-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 4,477 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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