PaperBanana is an open-source tool that generates academic diagrams, statistical plots, and other research illustrations from text descriptions. Researchers can use it through a command-line interface, Python API, local web interface, or MCP server, while the catalogue add-ons support agent-driven use.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to llmsresearch/paperbanana. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llmsresearch/paperbanana/main/.claude/skills/generate-diagram/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbananaWrote 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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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00232 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00116 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00046 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00023 |
Grade A, and why
generate-diagram 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 13d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- generate-diagram — 94% identical, 4 lines differ
What it actually says
Generate Diagram
Generate a publication-quality methodology diagram from a text file using PaperBanana.
Instructions
- Read the file at
$ARGUMENTS[0]to get the methodology text content. - If
$ARGUMENTS[1]is provided, use it as the figure caption. Otherwise, ask the user for a caption describing what the diagram should communicate. - Call the MCP tool
generate_diagramwith:source_context: the text content read from the filecaption: the figure captioniterations: 3 (default)
- Present the generated diagram to the user.
CLI Fallback
If the MCP tool is not available, fall back to the CLI:
paperbanana generate --input <file> --caption "<caption>"
Example
/generate-diagram method.txt "Overview of our encoder-decoder architecture"
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 36 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 60ec25f9aaa3
generate-diagram is a skill published in the GitHub repository llmsresearch/paperbanana (2,347 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 232 tokens. 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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