charting

charting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oaustegard/claude-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,514 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python-based tool for making static charts, plots, diagrams, heatmaps, and network visualizations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create analytical charts, statistical plots, flowcharts, network diagrams, and other publication-ready visualizations.
Why use it?
It helps choose between seaborn, matplotlib, and Graphviz based on the kind of data or diagram being shown.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/claude/output.

Good fit Use it to create analytical charts, statistical plots, flowcharts, network diagrams, and other publication-ready visualizations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,514 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 $0.00100 $0.01514
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00757
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00151

Measured 10d ago against content hash 11d08da3e3be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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.

charting/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Charting: Python Static Visualizations

Select the optimal Python charting library and produce clean, publication-quality output.

Library Selection Framework

Choose the library based on what the visualization represents, not habit.

Seaborn — DEFAULT for statistical/analytical charts

Seaborn wraps matplotlib with better defaults, tighter pandas integration, and fewer lines of code. Reach for seaborn first when the data lives in a DataFrame and the goal is analytical.

Use for: distributions (histograms, KDEs, violin plots, ECDFs), categorical comparisons (box plots, swarm plots, strip plots, bar plots), correlation (heatmaps, pair plots, regression plots), grouped/faceted views (FacetGrid, catplot, relplot).

Why: Automatic axis labeling from column names, coherent color palettes, built-in aggregation with confidence intervals, and hue/col/row faceting with minimal code.

Practical rule: If the code would call plt.bar(), plt.hist(), plt.scatter(), or build a heatmap with plt.imshow() — use the seaborn equivalent instead. It will look better with less effort.

Matplotlib — fine-grained control and non-standard layouts

Drop to raw matplotlib only when seaborn doesn't support the chart type or when pixel-level layout control is required.

Use for: custom multi-panel figures mixing chart types, unusual annotations (arrows, shaded regions, custom legends), non-standard axes (polar, broken axes, insets), animations, image overlays, or any layout where the default seaborn API is insufficient.

Combine with seaborn: Seaborn plots return matplotlib Axes objects. Apply matplotlib customization on top of seaborn output rather than rebuilding from scratch.

Graphviz — graph/network structures

Graphviz operates in a fundamentally different domain: nodes and edges, not x/y data.

Use for: dependency trees, flowcharts, state machines, org charts, entity-relationship diagrams, DAGs, call graphs, any directed or undirected graph structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 131 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 11d08da3e3be

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charting is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (147 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,514 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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