figure-table-checker

figure-table-checker is a skill for Claude Code from muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist and guide for making figures and tables in academic papers clear and compliant with publication rules. It covers captions, axes, legends, error bars, sample sizes, statistical markers, readability, and color accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check or improve charts, tables, captions, error bars, statistical annotations, color choices, and research flow diagrams such as CONSORT or PRISMA.
Why use it?
It catches formatting and explanation problems that can make results difficult to interpret or cause a manuscript to fail a journal’s requirements. It helps readers understand visuals without relying on surrounding text.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the academic-writer plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check or improve charts, tables, captions, error bars, statistical annotations, color choices, and research flow diagrams such as CONSORT or PRISMA.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/figure-table-checker
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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill figure-table-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,574 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 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 $0.00000 $0.03574
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01787
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00715
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00357

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3f8f8c914475, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-table-checker 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 11d 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/figure-table-checker/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Figure and Table Checker

Figures and tables are the most scrutinised elements of any research paper. Reviewers spot non-compliant formatting immediately. This skill covers universal standards, discipline-specific requirements, and the design principles that separate publication-ready visuals from rejected manuscripts.


Figure Compliance Checklist (Universal)

Apply to every figure before submission:

  • Numbered sequentially in order of first mention in text (Figure 1, Figure 2…)
  • Caption below the figure — always below, in complete sentence form
  • Caption is self-contained — reader can understand the figure without reading the paper
  • All axes labelled with units in parentheses: Time (s), Concentration (mM)
  • Legend included where multiple data series are plotted
  • Error bars defined — type stated explicitly in caption or methods (SD, SEM, or 95% CI)
  • Statistical significance markers explained (e.g., *** p < .001, ** p < .01, * p < .05)
  • Sample sizes visible — either in legend, caption, or on the figure itself
  • Font size legible at final print size — minimum 8pt for labels, 10pt preferred
  • Colorblind-accessible palette used (see colour section below)
  • Resolution sufficient — 300 dpi minimum for publication (600 dpi for line art)
  • File format appropriate — check journal requirements (TIFF, EPS, PDF, PNG)
  • No missing data without explanation
  • Axes start at zero for bar charts (unless scale is justified and stated)
  • Individual data points shown for small samples (n < 20) alongside summary statistics

Table Compliance Checklist (Universal)

Apply to every table before submission:

  • Numbered sequentially (Table 1, Table 2…)
  • Title/caption above the table — always above, in noun-phrase form (not a sentence)
  • Column headers clear — units in header, not repeated in each cell
  • No vertical lines — professional tables use horizontal rules only (booktabs principle)
  • Minimal horizontal lines — top, below header, and bottom only (APA style)
  • Consistent decimal places within each column
  • Alignment appropriate — numbers right-aligned or decimal-aligned; text left-aligned
  • Note(s) section present if abbreviations used or statistical thresholds need explanation
  • Missing data represented consistently (em dash —, or stated as N/A with note)
  • No duplication of data already presented in a figure (unless summary comparison needed)
  • Spanning rows/columns used appropriately, not for decoration

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 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. 11d ago First seen · 337 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3f8f8c914475

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figure-table-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,574 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 2026-08-31.

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