Data Table Design

A method for designing tables so readers can compare numbers quickly and interpret them correctly. It covers alignment, decimal precision, sorting, units, totals, and layout for the table's medium.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to redesign a table in a report, slide, dashboard, or web page when the raw data is hard to read.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes caused by cluttered columns, inconsistent numbers, or precision that the underlying data does not support. It also removes columns that do not help answer the reader's main question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmedev/document-studio/data-table-design
Any agent
npx skills add SkillMedev/document-studio --skill data-table-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkillMedev/document-studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 145 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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00145 $0.01437
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00144

Measured yesterday against content hash bbc61e6ea4f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Data Table Design 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 yesterday.

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/data-table-design/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Table Design

A table is not a spreadsheet dump. Every formatting choice either helps or hinders the reader's ability to compare, rank, and interpret - and a misaligned or falsely precise table gets numbers misread in the meetings that matter. The output of this skill is a table a reader can extract the right conclusion from in under ten seconds.

Operating procedure

Step 1: Gather inputs

  1. The table as it stands (or the raw data), and where it will live: slide, printed report, dashboard, or scrolling web page - the medium changes the density rules in Step 5.
  2. The reader's single most likely question. Every subsequent decision serves it. If the owner cannot name the question, that is the first problem to fix.
  3. The action the reader takes from the table. Columns that inform no comparison or action are candidates for deletion.
  4. Units and the true precision of the data - what the collection method actually supports, not what the export prints.

Step 2: Set alignment

  • Right-align all numeric columns without exception - alignment makes magnitude visible at a glance.
  • Left-align text columns.
  • Center column headers only when the column is narrow and centering does not visually disconnect the header from its values.
  • Never mix alignments within a single column.
  • Use tabular (fixed-width) figures where the medium allows; proportional digits break vertical comparison.

Step 3: Fix precision

Consistency within a column matters more than absolute precision:

  • Currency: two decimal places for unit prices; zero for large aggregates (1,240,000 not 1,240,000.00).
  • Percentages: one decimal place unless the context is scientific.
  • Large numbers: use K, M, B suffixes with the unit noted in the header rather than printing eight digits.
  • If a column mixes scales (most values in thousands, one in millions), flag the outlier with a footnote rather than changing the column format.
  • Never imply false precision - round to the significant figures the data actually supports. Survey-based or estimated figures rarely support more than two significant figures; showing four communicates a certainty that does not exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. yesterday First seen · 106 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A bbc61e6ea4f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Data Table Design is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkillMedev/document-studio (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 1,437 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 2026-08-31.

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