Fig Mirror

Fig Mirror is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by VILA-Lab in FigMirror.

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agentagent-skillsclaude-codecodexdata-visualizationllm-agentsmatplotlibpaper-figuresplottingpythonresearch-toolsscientific-visualizationskill

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Install Fig Mirror

Copy Fig Mirror into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror ~/.claude/skills/figmirror

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .codex/skills/figmirror/SKILL.md in VILA-Lab/FigMirror
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/figmirror
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Fig Mirror does

Fig Mirror mirrors the visual style of a reference paper figure onto the user's own data. It preprocesses a screenshot, runs a Drawer/Reviewer loop, and outputs a camera-ready PDF plus an editable matplotlib script.

Fig Mirror is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Fig Mirror comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-skills, claude-code, codex and data-visualization.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

FigMirror (`figmirror`)

Use this skill when the user wants to:

Transfer the visual style of a top-conference paper figure to their own data.
Produce a camera-ready matplotlib figure matching a reference screenshot in style, not in data.
Mirror 3D paper-figure references such as surfaces, scatter, trajectories, bars, layered waterfalls, or plane projections when the reference or data is actually 3D.
Receive a self-contained .py script with editable inline data plus PNG/PDF outputs.

Required Inputs

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Fig Mirror

What else does VILA-Lab publish alongside Fig Mirror?
Fig Mirror is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from VILA-Lab/FigMirror, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include FigMirror, OpenSpec Apply Change and OpenSpec Archive Change. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Fig Mirror does, and is maintained by VILA-Lab in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the VILA-Lab/FigMirror page.
How does Fig Mirror compare to other Data skills?
Fig Mirror ranks #603 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Fig Mirror against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.