charting

charting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mthines/agent-skills. It costs 158 tokens per session (2,982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing charts and visualization libraries in React, Next.js, Expo, and React Native applications. It matches the chart to the question the data should answer, such as comparing values, showing change over time, or displaying relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or building web or mobile data visualizations, selecting a chart library, or deciding how to show comparisons, distributions, flows, geographic data, and other structures.
Why use it?
Choosing a chart without considering the data and the user's question can make information hard to understand. The guide also flags accessibility and common design problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mthines-agent-skills plugin — 54 skills, 4 agents shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mthines-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 4 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for charting

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mthines/agent-skills/charting.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mthines/agent-skills/charting)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mthines/agent-skills/charting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mthines/agent-skills/charting.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,982 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 $0.00158 $0.02982
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01491
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00298

Measured 4d ago against content hash 505a8d623ca4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

charting 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 4d 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/design/charting/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Charting Skill

You are a data-visualization advisor for React/Next.js (web) and Expo/React Native (mobile) applications. Your job is to pick the right chart, the right library, and call out accessibility and anti-pattern risks — without re-implementing the visual-design rules covered by sibling skills: ux owns foundational mechanics (contrast minimums, touch targets, microcopy), visual-design owns generative direction (series-palette construction, style-direction match, type pairing). Defer to those skills rather than restating their rules.

Invocation

Run this workflow whenever the user invokes /charting or asks "what chart should I use", "visualize X", "build a dashboard chart", or "pick a chart library".

Phase 1: Discover the intent and the data

Ask — in one batched message — only the answers you cannot infer from context:

  1. Platform — web (React/Next.js), mobile (Expo/React Native), or both?
  2. Intent — what question must the chart answer? Map to one of: comparison, composition, distribution, relationship, evolution (over time), flow, geographic, hierarchical. See rules/chart-type-selection.md.
  3. Data shape — number of categorical dimensions, number of numeric measures, approximate row count (≤ 50, 50–10k, > 10k).
  4. Audience and surface — public marketing page, internal dashboard, embedded analytics, mobile widget?
  5. Constraints — design system already in use (shadcn/ui, Tailwind, Tremor, Material, custom), bundle-size budget, real-time requirements, offline support, server-side rendering.

If the user already supplied any of these, do not ask again — confirm them back instead.

Phase 2: Select the chart type

Load rules/chart-type-selection.md and use the decision table. Return one primary recommendation plus, when relevant, one alternative with the trade-off named in a single line. Never recommend a chart whose intent does not match the user's question.

Phase 3: Select the library

Load rules/library-selection.md and apply the platform-specific decision tables. Output the recommendation as: <library> — one-line reason — link to docs. Pin to the dataset-size bracket and the design system the user named in Phase 1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 4d ago First seen · 207 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 505a8d623ca4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

charting is a skill published in the GitHub repository mthines/agent-skills (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 2,982 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

ego-browser

Skill "ego-browser" from citrolabs/ego-lite, covering ego-browser, quick start, common helpers, task spaces and control handoff.

citrolabs/ego-lite · 210 tokens

temporal-developer

Develop, debug, and manage Temporal applications across Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, and Rust. Use when the user is building workflows, activities, or workers with a Temporal SDK, debugging issues like non-determinism errors, stuck workflows, or activity retries, using Temporal CLI, Temporal Server, or…

temporalio/skill-temporal-developer · 161 tokens

x-algorithm

Write X (Twitter) posts that the For You algorithm actually rewards. Grounded in the open-sourced X recommendation system — the Grok-based transformer ranker, Phoenix retrieval, Thunder in-network store, and Grox content-understanding pipeline. Use when the user wants to write a post, thread, reply, or quote; plan a…

carson2222/skills · 152 tokens

opencode-memory

Browse local OpenCode history: sessions, messages, plans, prompt history, and prior decisions. Use when the user says history, previous session, last time, remember, recall, plans, prior work, or when resuming/debugging repeated work where earlier OpenCode context may help. Do not use for fresh tasks or when current…

carson2222/skills · 77 tokens

creating-explainers

Use when creating an interactive explainer - a single self-contained HTML page with hand-built Canvas figures. Handles source-file explainers, topic-driven research explainers, and mixed intake where files provide the spine and research adds support. Trigger phrases include "make an explainer", "turn this paper into…

analyticalmonk/explain-this · 98 tokens

custom-icons

Create or refine custom icon assets as native or traced SVGs and transparent PNG/WebP files. Use when the user asks for a bespoke icon or cohesive icon set, wants an image traced into a clean vector, or needs a detailed or 3D icon with transparency.

JKc66/custom-icons-skill · 57 tokens