latex-tables

latex-tables is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,146 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A LaTeX table-formatting skill using the tabularray package, a tool for laying out tables in LaTeX documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or migrate tables, set column widths and alignment, and troubleshoot table layout problems in LaTeX.
Why use it?
It helps address difficult table layouts, fixed-width columns, alignment, and overflow instead of assembling those formats manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the doc-tools plugin — 13 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it to create or migrate tables, set column widths and alignment, and troubleshoot table layout problems in LaTeX.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/latex-tables
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill latex-tables
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install doc-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,146 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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: 4 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 142
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 42
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 126
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 133
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 $0.00035 $0.01146
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00115

Measured 6d ago against content hash c8a93b944533, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

latex-tables scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo tlmgr install tabularray
plugins/doc-tools/skills/latex-tables/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX Tables with tabularray

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating tables with fixed-width columns
  • Formatting complex table layouts
  • Need precise column alignment
  • Migrating from tabular/tabularx/longtable/booktabs
  • Troubleshooting table overflow issues

Quick Reference

Why tabularray?

Modern LaTeX3 package (replaces old solutions):

  • Fixed-width columns with proper alignment
  • Clean, consistent syntax
  • Replaces: tabular, tabularx, longtable, booktabs
  • Better performance than legacy packages
  • Part of TeX Live 2025

Installation

# Check if installed
kpsewhich tabularray.sty

# If not found, install:
sudo tlmgr install tabularray

Basic Usage

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}  % Modern table package

\begin{document}
% Simple table
\begin{tblr}{colspec={ccc}, hlines, vlines}
  Header 1 & Header 2 & Header 3 \\
  Data 1   & Data 2   & Data 3   \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

Quick Reference Card

% Minimal table
\begin{tblr}{colspec={ccc}}
  A & B & C \\
\end{tblr}

% With all lines
\begin{tblr}{colspec={ccc}, hlines, vlines}
  A & B & C \\
\end{tblr}

% Fixed widths
\begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[2cm] Q[3cm] Q[2cm]}, hlines}
  A & B & C \\
\end{tblr}

% Bold header
\begin{tblr}{
  colspec={ccc},
  row{1}={font=\bfseries}
}
  Header & Header & Header \\
  Data   & Data   & Data   \\
\end{tblr}

Best Practices

  1. Use Q[width] for fixed columns instead of p{width}
  2. Specify widths explicitly when text might overflow
  3. Use X for flexible columns that should expand
  4. Style headers with row{1} instead of manual formatting
  5. Use colspec for column properties, not inline commands
  6. Check package version: kpsewhich tabularray.sty (should be recent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 6d ago First seen · 145 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B c8a93b944533

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latex-tables is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (72 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,146 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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