beautiful-data-viz SKILL.md skillA

beautiful-data-viz from fmschulz/omics-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add fmschulz/omics-skills/beautiful-data-viz@git:20261001.06f977a

Pins git:20261001.06f977a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
fmschulz/omics-skills
Path
skills/beautiful-data-viz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261001.06f977a, committed Oct 1, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 3, 2026
Size
6,789 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Shared design rules for every plot, figure, chart, dashboard or data visual (matplotlib, seaborn, ggplot2, Plotly, HTML/SVG). Greyscale first, color only to encode information, colorblind-safe, publication-ready export. Use when making, restyling or reviewing any chart or figure.

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

# Beautiful Data Viz

The pack's shared rules for any data visual, whatever the library or medium. Show the data, remove decoration, label directly, and add only the context the reader needs. Other skills that draw figures (`/plotly-dashboard-skill`, `/notebooks`, the `bio-*` reporting skills) follow these rules and add only what their medium needs.

## Instructions

1. **Greyscale first.** Draw every mark in neutral greys by default. Add color only when it encodes information:
   - a category the reader must tell apart,
   - the one highlighted finding (one accent color; everything else stays grey),
   - an ordered or signed quantity (sequential or diverging scale).

   Use colorblind-safe colors, never make color the only encoding (add position, shape, line style, or a direct label), and keep the figure readable in greyscale print. When color is warranted, pick it from [references/palettes.md](references/palettes.md).
2. Clarify the message, comparison context, audience, and medium (notebook, paper, slides, web). One or two values read better as a sentence; a short lookup list reads better as a table.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add fmschulz/omics-skills/beautiful-data-viz@sha256:9d0feb76029f100c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.06f977a, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 3, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 24 days.

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git:20260603.e5983f62026-06-03 e5983f6 4,856 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 (6789 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

fmschulz/omics-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7n6at7bmvkdnqvvv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fmschulz/omics-skills/beautiful-data-viz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d0feb76029f100c8d21df9e291919cee00b6d2af7a8befb6c0fcce1464bb372

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