recreate-scientific-figure

recreate-scientific-figure is a skill for Codex from icebird1998/scientific-illustrator. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for rebuilding a supplied scientific image as an editable diagram in draw.io, Microsoft PowerPoint, or WPS Presentation. It recreates the figure panel by panel, including text, shapes, symbols, lines, arrows, tables, and charts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recreate scientific figures, graphical abstracts, workflow diagrams, models, and multi-panel schematics as editable files.
Why use it?
It removes the need to edit a flat PNG, JPEG, SVG, or PDF when you need to change individual parts. It also checks and corrects the rebuilt figure for consistency.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to recreate scientific figures, graphical abstracts, workflow diagrams, models, and multi-panel schematics as editable files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/icebird1998/scientific-illustrator/recreate-scientific-figure
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 icebird1998/scientific-illustrator --skill recreate-scientific-figure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/icebird1998/scientific-illustrator

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,445 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 96
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00095 $0.01445
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00145

Measured 12d ago against content hash b2467c128c85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recreate-scientific-figure 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 12d 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.

plugins/scientific-illustrator/skills/recreate-scientific-figure/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recreate Scientific Figure

Coordinate one backend-neutral four-role protocol. Keep the roles logically separate even when one agent performs all four. Let the user choose draw.io, Microsoft PowerPoint, or WPS Presentation; the choice changes the implementation, never the quality contract.

Use $recreate-scientific-figure-in-drawio as the draw.io Drawer adapter and $edit-powerpoint-live as the PowerPoint/WPS Drawer adapter. Use $audit-scientific-figure as the Reviewer and $correct-scientific-figure as the Corrector.

Preserve backend parity

Require both backends to deliver the same semantic capabilities:

  • editable text, shapes, symbols, panels, lines, arrows, and attached connectors;
  • editable tables and regular charts: native in COM/OOXML PowerPoint, editable shape composites in Office.js PowerPoint or draw.io when their live APIs cannot insert a native chart;
  • stable object names/ids, duplication, grouping, z-order, exact alignment, and equal distribution;
  • one picture object per irreducible raster field, with all reconstructable overlays rebuilt separately;
  • visible object-by-object construction in draw.io, PowerPoint COM, and connected PowerPoint Office.js; explicitly labeled, checkpointed, and verification-aware file refresh in OOXML fallback mode;
  • structure audit plus renderer audit after every region and after the whole figure;
  • an editable source file and requested exports.

Do not relax a rule because one backend represents the object differently.

Designer handoff

Treat the supplied reference as the design authority. Extract its design; do not redesign it for convenience.

  1. Inspect the full-resolution reference and readable local details.
  2. Record the reference size, aspect ratio, reading direction, panel bounds, coordinate transform, palette, typography, and z-order.
  3. Assign every region a stable id, bounding box, title, construction order, incoming links, and outgoing links.
  4. Inventory every visible item as editable text, editable shape, free line, attached connector, editable table/chart, repeated motif, or irreducible raster field.
  5. Decompose grids, prediction comparisons, image stacks, mask rows, and multi-image panels into individual raster fields plus editable titles, frames, grids, legends, arrows, axes, and annotations.
  6. Record unreadable text and obscured boundaries as explicit ambiguities. Never invent content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 115 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A b2467c128c85

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recreate-scientific-figure is a skill published in the GitHub repository icebird1998/scientific-illustrator (796 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,445 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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