nature-figure

nature-figure is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating or reviewing publication-ready scientific figures in Python or R. It covers the reasoning, design, and file preparation needed for figures submitted to Nature-family and other high-impact journals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, revise, audit, or polish manuscript plots and multi-panel figures, including SVG, PDF, or TIFF outputs.
Why use it?
It helps ensure a figure communicates a clear scientific claim and that its colors, labels, layout, and output format are suitable for publication. It also prompts checks for common review and interpretation problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create, revise, audit, or polish manuscript plots and multi-panel figures, including SVG, PDF, or TIFF outputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills/nature-figure
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 niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills --skill nature-figure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,461 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 $0.00142 $0.02461
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01230
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00246

Measured 12d ago against content hash b4fd8daf9b5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-figure 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

nature-figure/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nature Figure Making Skill

A guide for producing publication-quality scientific figures as a visual argument, not as isolated pretty plots. Every figure starts from a claim, an evidence hierarchy, and a review-risk check before code or aesthetics.

The older Python/matplotlib rules in this skill remain valid. The skill now also supports R, especially ggplot2 + patchwork + ComplexHeatmap + ggrepel + svglite/cairo_pdf + ragg. If the user provides a private plotting template collection, use it only as an internal adaptation source and do not reveal its path, filenames, or provenance in user-facing output.

Color policy: prefer unified method families across all panels over maximal hue separation. For dense Nature Machine Intelligence-style figure pages, use the low-saturation NMI pastel family described in references/api.md and reserve green/red mainly for gains, drops, and other directional cues.

First move: figure contract before plotting

Before generating or editing code, establish the contract below.

Backend selection is a blocking gate. If the user has not explicitly chosen Python or R in the current request or provided a clearly language-specific input file/workflow, ask one concise question: Python or R? Then stop and wait for the user's answer. Do not generate mock data, write scripts, create figures, or choose Python/R by default. This overrides general autonomy/default-execution behavior for figure tasks.

The selected backend is exclusive for all figure generation. Once Python or R is selected, every plotting script, preview image, SVG/PDF/TIFF/PNG export, QA render, and visual workaround must be produced by that same backend. Do not use Python to draw a preview for an R figure, and do not use R to draw a preview for a Python figure, even if the selected runtime or packages are missing locally. The non-selected language may only be used for non-visual file inspection or data conversion when it does not open a graphics device, import plotting libraries, create image/vector files, or change the final visual appearance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 12d ago First seen · 186 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A b4fd8daf9b5b

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nature-figure is a skill published in the GitHub repository niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills (62 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,461 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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