chart-description-writer

chart-description-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for describing charts and other data visualizations in accurate, accessible text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write a caption, alternative text, or short explanatory text for a published visualization.
Why use it?
It gives readers who cannot see or fully interpret the graphic the chart type, subject, key finding, and data range.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write a caption, alternative text, or short explanatory text for a published visualization.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/chart-description-writer
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill chart-description-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,137 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00052 $0.01137
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00114

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0fc50d48863f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chart-description-writer 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 12d 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/data-journalism/visualization/chart-description-writer/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chart Description Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes a precise, accessible text description of a data visualization — covering the chart type, what it shows, the key finding, and the data range — suitable for publication as a caption, alt-text, or standfirst alongside the chart.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are publishing a chart and need a caption or alt-text that accurately describes it for readers who cannot see or fully interpret the visual
  • You want a short, punchy caption that highlights the most important finding rather than just describing the axes
  • You need to write an accessible description to meet publication or platform accessibility standards
  • You are writing up a chart for a print layout where the graphic may not reproduce clearly at small sizes

What You Need To Provide

Required: A description of the chart — chart type (bar, line, scatter, etc.), what the x and y axes show, the time period if applicable, the data source, and the key finding or pattern you want the reader to take away. Optional: The exact headline figure or data point you want emphasised; the publication register (news article, magazine feature, annual report); whether an alt-text version (screen reader) is also needed.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the chart type and the primary story the data tells — not a neutral description of all data points, but the finding a journalist would lead with.
  2. Writes a headline-first description: the key finding in plain language, followed by the supporting context (time period, comparison, magnitude).
  3. If alt-text is requested, produces a separate, more complete description including chart type, axis labels, data range, and a full plain-language summary — formatted to accessibility standards.

Output Format

Primary output: a caption of two to four sentences (60–120 words) that leads with the finding and includes the data source. If alt-text is requested, a second block: a single descriptive paragraph of 60–100 words formatted as alt-text, beginning with the chart type. Tone: clear, direct, publication-quality. No jargon.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 74 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 0fc50d48863f

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chart-description-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,137 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 2026-08-30.