Figure Description

Figure Description is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by wanshuiyin in Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.

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Install Figure Description

Copy Figure Description 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/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/main/skills/figure-description ~/.claude/skills/figure-description

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/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/figure-description/SKILL.md in wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/figure-description
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Figure Description does

Figure Description processes user-provided patent figures and generates formal drawing descriptions with reference numerals. Use it when you need to create figure captions, assign reference numerals, and cross-reference them to patent claims.

Figure Description is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Figure Description comes from a repository tagged ai-research, ai-tools, aris, autonomous-agent and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Figure Description for Patents

Process patent figures and generate drawing descriptions based on: $ARGUMENTS

Unlike /paper-figure which generates data plots, this skill processes user-provided technical diagrams and assigns reference numerals.

Constants

FIGURE_DIR = "patent/figures/" — Output directory for figure descriptions
REFERENCE_NUMERAL_PREFIX = 100 — Starting numeral for first figure's components
NUMERAL_SERIES = 100 — Each figure uses a separate 100-series (Fig 1: 100-199, Fig 2: 200-299, etc.)

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

Commands Figure Description provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/paper-figure

Frequently asked about Figure Description

What else does wanshuiyin publish alongside Figure Description?
Figure Description is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ablation Planner, AlphaXiv and Analyze Results. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Figure Description does, and is maintained by wanshuiyin in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep page.
How does Figure Description compare to other Writing skills?
Figure Description ranks #81 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. 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 Figure Description against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.