hvplot

hvplot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MarcSkovMadsen/holoviz-mcp. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A set of Python guidance for quickly exploring data and creating charts with hvPlot, a charting tool that uses a style similar to Pandas' plot method.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for exploratory data analysis, charts, interactive dashboards, and data applications built with the HoloViz tools.
Why use it?
It helps create useful data visualizations with less code while keeping the work documented, testable, and suitable for notebooks or Python files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for exploratory data analysis, charts, interactive dashboards, and data applications built with the HoloViz tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcskovmadsen/holoviz-mcp/hvplot
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 MarcSkovMadsen/holoviz-mcp --skill hvplot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarcSkovMadsen/holoviz-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00029 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00241

Measured 8d ago against content hash ba57241bd368, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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.

skills/hvplot/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hvPlot Development Skills

This document provides best practices for developing plots and charts with HoloViz hvPlot in notebooks and .py files.

Please develop as an Expert Python Developer developing advanced data-driven, analytics and testable data visualisations, dashboards and applications would do. Keep the code short, concise, documented, testable and professional.

Dependencies

Core dependencies provided with the hvplot Python package:

  • hvplot: Core visualization framework
  • holoviews: Declarative data visualization library with composable elements. Best for: complex multi-layered plots, advanced interactivity (linked brushing, selection), when you need fine control over plot composition, scientific visualizations. More powerful but steeper learning curve than hvPlot. hvPlot is built upon holoviews.
  • colorcet: Perceptually uniform colormaps
  • panel: Provides widgets and layouts enabling tool, dashboard and data app development.
  • param: A declarative approach to creating classes with typed, validated, and documented parameters. Fundamental to the reactive programming model of hvPlot and the rest of the HoloViz ecosystem.
  • pandas: Industry-standard DataFrame library for tabular data. Best for: data cleaning, transformation, time series analysis, datasets that fit in memory. The default choice for most data work.

Optional dependencies from the HoloViz Ecosystem:

  • datashader: Renders large datasets (millions+ points) into images for visualization. Best for: big data visualization, geospatial datasets, scatter plots with millions of points, heatmaps of dense data. Requires hvPlot or HoloViews as frontend.
  • geoviews: Geographic data visualization with map projections and tile sources. Best for: geographic/geospatial plots, map-based dashboards, when you need coordinate systems and projections. Built on HoloViews, works seamlessly with hvPlot.
  • holoviz-mcp: Model Context Protocol server for HoloViz ecosystem. Provides access to detailed documentation, component search and agent skills.
  • hvsampledata: Shared datasets for the HoloViz projects.

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 248 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A ba57241bd368

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hvplot is a skill published in the GitHub repository MarcSkovMadsen/holoviz-mcp (34 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,413 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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