paper-visual-craft

paper-visual-craft is a skill for Codex from sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing, editing, and checking figures and tables in research papers. It covers plots, LaTeX tables, captions, legends, colours, fonts, and rendered PDF or PNG output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to polish Matplotlib plots and LaTeX tables, create or revise captions, organise benchmark results, and validate the final rendered visuals.
Why use it?
It helps prevent visuals from presenting unsupported numbers or having practical problems such as clipped text, overlapping elements, or poor readability.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to polish Matplotlib plots and LaTeX tables, create or revise captions, organise benchmark results, and validate the final rendered visuals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library/paper-visual-craft
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 sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library --skill paper-visual-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,187 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 $0.00060 $0.02187
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00219

Measured 5d ago against content hash 42a1e48ad721, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-visual-craft 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 5d 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/paper-visual-craft/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Visual Craft

Routing Boundary

  • Use $paper-framework-figure-studio-pro first for source-grounded framework figure, method overview, architecture diagram, pipeline/process figure, system/data-flow figure, mechanism schematic, or agent workflow planning.
  • Return to $paper-visual-craft for final figure/table polish, Matplotlib or LaTeX edits, captions, color/typography cleanup, and rendered PDF/PNG validation.

Incremental Maintenance

  • For a local number, caption, or format fix, reuse the established paper story and table contract. Verify the scoped source and connected text only; do not restart story questioning, re-freeze the contract, run a full literature review, or rerun experiments for cosmetic-only changes.

Core Workflow

  1. Inspect before editing.

    • Read the paper context around the target figure or table.
    • Locate the source data, generation script, LaTeX include block, captions, and any reference visual the user named.
    • If data provenance is unclear, stop and identify the exact missing source instead of redrawing from copied numbers.
  2. Classify the visual.

    • Decide whether it is a main-result figure, appendix diagnostic, dataset/statistics figure, ablation table, reliability/control table, or qualitative panel.
    • Keep main-paper visuals compact and claim-focused. Use appendix visuals for diagnostics, extended controls, and richer tables.
    • For dataset or benchmark papers, ask what story the visual supports: benchmark positioning, annotation effort, evidence source, main control, or diagnostic richness.
    • Put the comparison axis first. The reader should immediately know what is being compared and what conclusion to read; the visual should not preserve implementation history, generated-condition inventories, or debug process unless those are the claim.
    • Prefer a simple table for categorical comparisons and component ablations. Do not turn a row-and-column question into a complex diagram merely to make the presentation look more elaborate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 5d ago Changed · +20 lines 42a1e48ad721
  2. 11d ago First seen · 131 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6b10c4dc186b

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paper-visual-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository sidiangongyuan/codex-skills-library (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,187 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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