figure-description

figure-description is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xuzhougeng/ScientificFigureLibrary. It costs 57 tokens per session (764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing or improving descriptions of scientific figure templates, including their biological uses and data profiles. It helps clarify which research questions a figure could illustrate without running the analysis or writing a paper legend.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe an SFL figure template, explain suitable biological questions, or turn available figure and data context into concise Markdown.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork by distinguishing supplied evidence from assumptions and by checking source material when available. It avoids inventing genes, samples, results, or statistics.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the figure-library plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to describe an SFL figure template, explain suitable biological questions, or turn available figure and data context into concise Markdown.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xuzhougeng/scientificfigurelibrary/figure-description
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 xuzhougeng/ScientificFigureLibrary --skill figure-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xuzhougeng/ScientificFigureLibrary

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install figure-library, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 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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Your own site
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 764 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
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

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 →

  • low Privilege Escalation · line 14
    Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.
    Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
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 $0.00057 $0.00764
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00382
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00076

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0e1ddc60460e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figure-description 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 4d 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/figure-description/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Figure Description

Help a researcher choose a template and clarify what they want to draw. Write useful, concrete prose, not an execution manual or a field inventory. Default to Chinese with necessary English scientific terms.

Inspect and distinguish evidence

Inspect the actual figure and supplied code/data as text. Use the user's information rather than inventing samples, genes, diseases, statistics or results. A screenshot-only scaffold is not a reproduced analysis.

If a source link is provided, use available Host tools to verify that it corresponds to this figure/panel and read relevant legend/results, not necessarily the whole paper. A tutorial is not a paper. If unavailable or mismatched, say so; do not invent source findings or bypass access restrictions.

If no source/background was provided, ask once whether the user has a link, legend or experimental context; explain that skipping is allowed. Wait for an answer. If the user already says none or skips, proceed without repeating the question or searching for a speculative original. Distinguish user-provided context, read source facts and generic applicability inference in existing provenance/agent notes. Never label inferred scenarios as original results.

Write separate fields

  • description: a concise paragraph explaining the research/visualization need and the relationship this plot displays.
  • application: normally two or three specific use cases, each one or two sentences explaining the biological context, comparison and desired observation. Use Markdown bullets or subheadings as useful. Make the scientific question concrete, not just a chart name.
  • scientificQuestion: a short core question for search/Agent use; its meaning must also appear naturally in description/application, not as a third repeated long section.
  • dataProfile: a concise factual data-shape description. Name columns/ranges only if actually inspected; do not create a data-preparation tutorial.
  • visualProfile: observed axes, encodings, panel structure and labels, separately from applicability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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. 4d ago First seen · 37 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 0e1ddc60460e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figure-description is a skill published in the GitHub repository xuzhougeng/ScientificFigureLibrary (56 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 764 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 2026-09-06.

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