figure-polish

figure-polish is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ResearAI/DeepScientist. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,437 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for making charts and other figures clear, restrained, and suitable for papers or shared reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Polishing milestone charts, experiment summaries, paper figures, and appendix figures.
Why use it?
It adds a review step so important figures are rendered, inspected, and revised before they are treated as final.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Polishing milestone charts, experiment summaries, paper figures, and appendix figures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/researai/deepscientist/figure-polish
About the project

DeepScientist is a local research studio that manages the cycle from baseline experiments through research findings and paper-ready outputs. Researchers use it to organize autonomous scientific investigations, review progress, and take control when needed. The catalogue add-ons provide workflows and agent integrations for running research projects with it.

ResearAI/DeepScientist · 3,319 stars · on GitHub

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 ResearAI/DeepScientist --skill figure-polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist

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 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,437 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 179
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 180
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 181
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00037 $0.01437
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00144

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1182e639908b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-polish 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 9d 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.

src/skills/figure-polish/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Figure Polish

Use this skill when a figure matters beyond transient debugging.

This includes:

  • a main-experiment summary image sent to a connector
  • an aggregated analysis-campaign chart
  • a paper-facing main figure
  • an appendix / supplementary figure
  • any figure that will be stored as a durable artifact or cited in writing

Do not use this skill for disposable debug plots unless the user explicitly asks for them to be polished.

Core principle

DeepScientist figures should feel academic, restrained, and clear.

The goal is not to make a plot “fancy”. The goal is to make the intended comparison obvious without visual clutter.

Use one dominant message per figure. If multiple unrelated claims are competing inside the same image, split the figure instead of cramming everything into one panel.

Surface classes

First classify the figure:

  • connector_milestone
    • quick summary image for QQ / chat / copilot milestone reporting
    • usually png
    • message-first and minimal
  • paper_main
    • core paper figure
    • export pdf or svg plus a png preview
    • must remain readable after likely single-column or double-column placement
  • appendix
    • supplementary figure
    • may contain slightly more detail, but still avoid dashboard clutter
  • internal_review
    • used for local diagnosis and internal comparison
    • can be lighter-weight, but still should follow the same visual discipline if it may later be promoted

Style contract

Prefer the bundled Matplotlib style asset when plotting in Python:

  • assets/deepscientist-academic.mplstyle

If you need a custom script, start from that style instead of inventing a fresh bright theme.

Default visual rules:

  • white or near-white background
  • muted Morandi palette only
  • no neon colors
  • no rainbow / jet-like colormaps
  • no heavy shadows, glossy gradients, or thick black borders
  • top and right spines removed unless a special plot truly needs them
  • light grid only when it helps reading values
  • legend minimal; prefer direct labeling when it is clearer
  • main method should be visually dominant
  • baseline or comparison lines should be slightly more neutral than the main method

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 9d ago First seen · 184 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1182e639908b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figure-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository ResearAI/DeepScientist (3,319 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,437 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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