Figure Style

Figure Style is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by xuzhougeng in wisp-science.

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Install Figure Style

Copy Figure Style 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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science/tree/main/skills/figure-style ~/.claude/skills/figure-style

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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/figure-style/SKILL.md in xuzhougeng/wisp-science
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/figure-style
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Figure Style does

Figure Style checks publication figures for correctness and legibility before plotting. It provides a Matplotlib styling helper plus render-and-inspect QA for labels, layout, colours, and multi-panel crops.

Figure Style is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Figure Style comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-assistant, ai-for-science and ai4science.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Figure correctness checklist

This skill makes one plot trustworthy and readable. It deliberately has no house aesthetic — frame, font family, and sizes are all parameters of apply_figure_style(), which must run before the first plotting call. Multi-panel assembly is figure-composer's job; deciding what each figure in a paper should argue is paper-narrative's.

Two tiers of rule live below. Hard rules — everything under Tell the truth, Never do, and Prove the render, plus any rule stating a perceptual or factual invariant (semantic-zero centring, colour-vision safety, leader-line anchoring) — apply to every plot with no override. Everything else is a default: deviate when you have a deliberate reason, not by accident.

Tell the truth about the data

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

Commands Figure Style provides

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

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Frequently asked about Figure Style

What else does xuzhougeng publish alongside Figure Style?
Figure Style is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from xuzhougeng/wisp-science, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Infini, Bear Counter and Bear Map. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Figure Style does, and is maintained by xuzhougeng in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the xuzhougeng/wisp-science page.
How does Figure Style compare to other Quality skills?
Figure Style ranks #831 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Style against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.