init-figure-rules

init-figure-rules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kkhgeo/METASCI. It costs 200 tokens per session (1,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Workspace rules and helper files for making publication figures with Python and then refining them in Adobe Illustrator. The rules cover measurements, drafting, and audits, with defaults suited to Nature-style figures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating scientific charts in matplotlib that need to meet publication requirements and be edited in Illustrator.
Why use it?
They keep figure sizes and numeric settings consistent, reducing manual corrections after export.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the metasci plugin — 36 skills shipped together

Good fit Use them when creating scientific charts in matplotlib that need to meet publication requirements and be edited in Illustrator.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kkhgeo/metasci/init-figure-rules
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 kkhgeo/METASCI --skill init-figure-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kkhgeo/METASCI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install metasci, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 200 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,226 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00200 $0.01226
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00123

Measured yesterday against content hash 30e0a01b4bbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-figure-rules 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (assets/example_draft.py, assets/figspec.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.

codex-skills/metasci_workspace/init-figure-rules/SKILL.md · 99 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

5 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. yesterday Changed · +5 lines · +2 tokens per session 30e0a01b4bbe
  2. 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 198 tokens per session scan A 37ed412ae038

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init-figure-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository kkhgeo/METASCI (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 200 tokens to every session and 1,226 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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