polish-tables-figures

polish-tables-figures is a skill for Claude Code from ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills. It costs 191 tokens per session (1,678 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A LaTeX formatting workflow for making research-paper tables and figures ready for publication without changing their data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps format tables, arrange subfigures, adjust captions and column widths, check figure colors, and make references consistent for common academic venues.
Why use it?
Draft tables and figures may be too wide, inconsistently referenced, hard to read, or unsuitable for people with color-vision differences. It addresses presentation problems while keeping the numbers unchanged.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for cline.

Part of the paper-writing plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps format tables, arrange subfigures, adjust captions and column widths, check figure colors, and make references consistent for common academic venues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/polish-tables-figures
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 ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill polish-tables-figures
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,678 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 $0.00191 $0.01678
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00168

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1a459a81da10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polish-tables-figures 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check_floats.py, scripts/palettes.py, scripts/venueyaml.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/polish-tables-figures/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Polish Tables & Figures

Turn draft-quality LaTeX floats into the tables and figures reviewers expect to see at ACM / IEEE / NeurIPS-style / LNCS venues: booktabs rules, columns that fit the page budget, clean subfigure layouts, venue-correct captions, consistent \cref references, and colorblind-safe colors. Every change is presentation-only; the numbers are sacred.

When to use

  • "Make my tables/figures look professional" / "polish for camera-ready"
  • "Convert this table to booktabs" / "my table is too wide" / "overfull hbox"
  • "Lay these plots out as subfigures" / "fix my captions"
  • "Are my figure colors colorblind-safe?" / "pick a palette for this plot"
  • "Fix my \ref/\cref mess"
  • After tailor-to-venue, before preflight-check.

Inputs

  1. The main .tex file (the one with \documentclass); \input/\include files are followed automatically.
  2. Optional: a venue profile venues/conferences/<venue>-<year>.yml (schema in venues/schema.yml) — sets column count and caption conventions. Without one, conventions are inferred from the documentclass.
  3. Strongly recommended: a compiled .log next to the .tex so the column-sizing (overfull box) check can run.

Process

  1. Resolve venue conventions. If a venue is named, load its profile (sanity-check with python3 scripts/venueyaml.py venues/conferences/<venue>.yml). Re-verify format-critical facts against the live cfp_url before relying on them: template/documentclass, column count, any stated figure/table rules (minimum font sizes, color/grayscale requirements, accessibility requirements). Profiles are a starting point, never ground truth.

  2. Lint everything first:

    python3 scripts/check_floats.py paper.tex \
        --venue venues/conferences/<venue>-<year>.yml
    

    Flags: --json, --strict (warnings also fail), --log <file>, --overfull-threshold <pt>, --no-inputs. Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 findings, 2 bad arguments. The linter covers: booktabs style (\hline, \cline, vertical rules, double rules, missing package), \resizebox/tiny-font scaling, caption position per family, missing \caption/\label/\centering/ACM \Description, label-before-caption, deprecated subfigure package, width=\textwidth in a one-column float at a two-column venue, raster graphics, [h]/[H] placement, undefined and unreferenced labels, mixed Figure~\ref vs \cref styles, "Figure \cref" double prefixes, cleveref load order, lowercase \cref at sentence start, and Overfull \hbox entries from the .log.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 127 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 1a459a81da10

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polish-tables-figures is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills (42 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 1,678 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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