figure-table-quality SKILL.md skillA

figure-table-quality from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/figure-table-quality@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mathews-tom/armory
Path
skills/figure-table-quality/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed May 3, 2026
Size
6,893 bytes
Repository stars
334
License
MIT

Readability and rendering audit for figures and tables in academic manuscripts. Computes effective font/marker sizes at display scale from generation scripts, checks label collisions, color/hatch accessibility, axis-range efficiency, table formatting, and cross-figure consistency. Triggers on: "check figure quality", "audit plots", "readability check", "figure rendering", "are my figures readable", "table formatting check". Companion to figure-rhetoric (visual argument) and…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Figure & Table Quality Audit

**Pipeline position:** Phase 2.5 (between Grounding/Polish and Submission).
Runs after figure-rhetoric (content) and before arxiv-preflight (compliance).
See `/manuscript-pipeline` for full execution order.

## Purpose

Verify that every figure and table in a manuscript renders at readable size
in the compiled PDF. figure-rhetoric checks whether figures communicate the
right message. This skill checks whether the reader can physically read them.

## Execution

### Step 1 — Build the display-scale map

For every `\includegraphics` in the .tex source:

1. Extract the display width (e.g., `\textwidth`, `0.7\textwidth`, `0.55\textwidth`)
2. Compute the effective display width in inches using the document geometry
3. Read the figure generation script to find the `figsize` for each figure
4. Compute: `scale = display_width / figsize_width`

Also extract from the generation script or config:
- Base font sizes: title, label, tick, legend, annotation
- Marker sizes, line widths
- Bar widths (for grouped bar charts)

### Step 2 — Per-figure audit (all 9 checks)

For each figure, compute effective values at display scale and check:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/figure-table-quality@sha256:e1e9c385b12fb46f

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_47iaspr4ffpxv7oq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_47iaspr4ffpxv7oq)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 3, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-05-03 6b1e22c 6,893 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6893 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_47iaspr4ffpxv7oq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/figure-table-quality
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e1e9c385b12fb46f027532380a2cfec4c3e3a752e4451bcf8925227519617d5b

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

More from mathews-tom/armory

doc-condenser SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · archive/skills/doc-condenser/SKILL.md
v1.1.1 · audit B · 334 stars
opus-4-7-migration SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · archive/skills/opus-4-7-migration/SKILL.md · DEPRECATED: The Opus 4.7 migration scanner is retired from the active skill catalog. Retained for archival reference…
v1.1.0 · audit A · 334 stars
regex-builder SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · archive/skills/regex-builder/SKILL.md
v1.1.1 · audit B · 334 stars
sequential-thinking SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · archive/skills/sequential-thinking/SKILL.md
v1.1.1 · audit B · 334 stars
adr-writer SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/adr-writer/SKILL.md · Generates Architecture Decision Records capturing context, rationale, alternatives, and consequences in numbered…
v1.1.1 · audit A · 334 stars
agent-builder SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/agent-builder/SKILL.md · Build AI agents and automate Claude Code programmatically via the Claude Agent SDK and headless CLI mode. Covers Python…
v1.1.1 · audit A · 334 stars
animate SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/animate/SKILL.md · Create Manim (Python) animated explainers: algorithm step-throughs, math and equation walkthroughs, pipeline and…
v2.0.0 · audit A · 334 stars
api-docs-generator SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/api-docs-generator/SKILL.md · Audits and enhances FastAPI and REST API documentation: missing descriptions, response codes, examples, docstrings…
v1.1.1 · audit A · 334 stars
appraise SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/appraise/SKILL.md · Evidence-based competency and seniority appraisal of a software engineer from one or more Git repositories: attributes…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 334 stars
architecture-diagram SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/architecture-diagram/SKILL.md · Generate architecture diagrams as fully editable SVG with native AWS, Azure, and GCP icons for cloud diagrams, or…
v2.4.0 · audit A · 334 stars
architecture-reviewer SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/architecture-reviewer/SKILL.md · Architecture reviews across 7 dimensions (structural, scalability, enterprise readiness, performance, security, ops…
v1.1.1 · audit A · 334 stars
arxiv-figures SKILL.md skill
mathews-tom/armory · skills/arxiv-figures/SKILL.md · Optimize and prepare figures for arXiv submission: format conversion (EPS/PDF/PNG/JPG), size reduction, metadata…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 334 stars

Every file in mathews-tom/armory

Browse by kind, by grade A, or by owner.