ieee-figure

ieee-figure is a skill for Claude Code from TenWalk/ieee-skills. It costs 262 tokens per session (1,129 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating figures suitable for IEEE communications journals. It covers final print size, vector output, readable text, accessible colors, and common plots such as error rate or data rate against signal-to-noise ratio.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating or repairing publication figures, choosing plot styles, sizing single- and double-column graphics, embedding fonts, and preparing PDF or EPS output.
Why use it?
It helps prevent figures from becoming unreadable after journal formatting or printing in grayscale. It also encourages each figure to answer one clear question and to compare theory with simulation when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ieee-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for generating or repairing publication figures, choosing plot styles, sizing single- and double-column graphics, embedding fonts, and preparing PDF or EPS output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tenwalk/ieee-skills/ieee-figure
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 TenWalk/ieee-skills --skill ieee-figure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TenWalk/ieee-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ieee-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 262 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,129 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 $0.00262 $0.01129
Opus 5 $0.00131 $0.00564
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00113

Measured 11d ago against content hash 878b41ac8bc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ieee-figure 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 11d 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.

ieee-skills-claude/skills/ieee-figure/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IEEE Publication Figures

Use this skill to generate or repair figures that will survive IEEE production: vector, correctly sized for the column, with embedded fonts and readable text at print size.

Core stance

  • Size to the column from the start. Single-column ≈ 3.5 in (88.9 mm) wide; double-column ≈ 7.16 in (181.6 mm). Design at final size so fonts end up readable — never shrink a big figure.
  • Vector first. Output PDF or EPS for line/vector art; embed fonts. Use high-res raster only for photographic content (≥ 300 dpi color/grayscale, ≥ 600 dpi for line art / combinations).
  • Readable and grayscale-safe. Minimum ~8 pt text at final size; distinguish series by marker/linestyle/hatch as well as colour so the figure survives B/W printing; use a colorblind-safe palette.
  • Comms axis conventions. Error/outage curves use a log y-axis (semilogy); keep the SNR range wide enough to show the high-SNR slope (diversity order); define the SNR axis (transmit vs receive). Plot a derived expression as a line and its Monte-Carlo check as markers.
  • One panel, one question. No two panels answer the same thing. The figure must be legible and self-explanatory with its caption.
  • No fabricated data. Plot only the user's real numbers; if data is missing, ask or stub with a clearly labelled placeholder.

When to open extra files

File Open when
references/ieee-figure-spec.md Sizing, resolution, fonts, colour/grayscale, file format, multi-panel layout, caption rules, submission checklist
references/matplotlib-patterns.md Concrete matplotlib setup (rcParams for embedded fonts, sizing, palettes) and ready patterns for BER/outage-vs-SNR (semilog), rate vs SNR/antennas, analysis-vs-simulation overlay, convergence, CDF, NMSE-vs-SNR, training/validation loss, and ISAC plots (rate–CRB tradeoff, beampattern, ROC)

Workflow

  1. Target column: ask single- or double-column; set the width accordingly.
  2. Pick the chart type that matches the result (see matplotlib-patterns.md): BER/outage vs SNR (semilog y) for reliability, line vs SNR/antennas for rate/efficiency, analysis-line + simulation-marker overlay to validate a derivation, objective-vs-iteration for convergence, CDF for distributions.
  3. Set the rendering rcParams first (embedded fonts, sans-serif, sizes) — before any plotting.
  4. Plot the real data; encode each scheme redundantly (colour + marker/linestyle). Use semilogy for error/outage; floor the y-axis at the lowest reliably simulated value.
  5. Label fully: axis titles with units (dB, bps/Hz), defined SNR axis, legend; text ≥ 8 pt.
  6. Export .pdf (or .eps) as primary and a 300–600 dpi .png preview.
  7. Grayscale check: convert to gray and confirm series are still distinguishable.
  8. Return the script, the output paths, and a one-line caption draft.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 66 lines · 262 tokens per session scan A 878b41ac8bc1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ieee-figure is a skill published in the GitHub repository TenWalk/ieee-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 262 tokens to every session and 1,129 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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