scientific-schematics

scientific-schematics is a skill for Claude Code from TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine. It costs 68 tokens per session (5,413 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of scientific-schematics, MIT.

A tool for creating scientific diagrams from plain-language descriptions, such as neural-network layouts, system diagrams, flowcharts, and biological pathways. It generates an image and has another AI review it, refining it when its quality is below the chosen document standard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create publication diagrams for journals, conference papers, theses, grant proposals, preprints such as arXiv or bioRxiv, technical reports, posters, and slides.
Why use it?
It removes the need to draw complex research figures manually and provides a review step aimed at making them suitable for papers, theses, grants, reports, posters, or presentations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the open-academic-paper-machine plugin — 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create publication diagrams for journals, conference papers, theses, grant proposals, preprints such as arXiv or bioRxiv, technical reports, posters, and slides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/scientific-schematics
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 TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine --skill scientific-schematics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-academic-paper-machine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents.

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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Your own site
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,413 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00068 $0.05413
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02707
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00541

Measured 11d ago against content hash 45efc9cf1872, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientific-schematics 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/example_usage.sh, scripts/generate_schematic_ai.py, scripts/generate_schematic.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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to scientific-schematics — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

scientific-skills/scientific-schematics/SKILL.md · 620 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 620 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Schematics and Diagrams

Overview

Scientific schematics and diagrams transform complex concepts into clear visual representations for publication. This skill uses Nano Banana 2 AI for diagram generation with Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview quality review.

How it works:

  • Describe your diagram in natural language
  • Nano Banana 2 generates publication-quality images automatically
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview reviews quality against document-type thresholds
  • Smart iteration: Only regenerates if quality is below threshold
  • Publication-ready output in minutes
  • No coding, templates, or manual drawing required

Quality Thresholds by Document Type:

Document Type Threshold Description
journal 8.5/10 Nature, Science, peer-reviewed journals
conference 8.0/10 Conference papers
thesis 8.0/10 Dissertations, theses
grant 8.0/10 Grant proposals
preprint 7.5/10 arXiv, bioRxiv, etc.
report 7.5/10 Technical reports
poster 7.0/10 Academic posters
presentation 6.5/10 Slides, talks
default 7.5/10 General purpose

Simply describe what you want, and Nano Banana 2 creates it. All diagrams are stored in the figures/ subfolder and referenced in papers/posters.

Quick Start: Generate Any Diagram

Create any scientific diagram by simply describing it. Nano Banana 2 handles everything automatically with smart iteration:

# Generate for journal paper (highest quality threshold: 8.5/10)
python scripts/generate_schematic.py "CONSORT participant flow diagram with 500 screened, 150 excluded, 350 randomized" -o figures/consort.png --doc-type journal

# Generate for presentation (lower threshold: 6.5/10 - faster)
python scripts/generate_schematic.py "Transformer encoder-decoder architecture showing multi-head attention" -o figures/transformer.png --doc-type presentation

# Generate for poster (moderate threshold: 7.0/10)
python scripts/generate_schematic.py "MAPK signaling pathway from EGFR to gene transcription" -o figures/mapk_pathway.png --doc-type poster

# Custom max iterations (max 2)
python scripts/generate_schematic.py "Complex circuit diagram with op-amp, resistors, and capacitors" -o figures/circuit.png --iterations 2 --doc-type journal

Read the full file on GitHub · 620 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. 11d ago First seen · 620 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 45efc9cf1872

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scientific-schematics is a skill published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 5,413 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to scientific-schematics, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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