chart-type-chooser SKILL.md skillA
chart-type-chooser from alto-r/nature-figure-craft is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alto-r/nature-figure-craft/chart-type-chooser@git:20261103.48824bbPins git:20261103.48824bb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alto-r/nature-figure-craft
- Path
chart-type-chooser/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261103.48824bb, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 27,051 bytes
- Repository stars
- 74
- License
- MIT
Decide WHICH chart to draw before drawing it. Profiles the data file first, proposes the candidate claims that data can actually support (numbers already computed), lets the user pick one and choose among the expensive options (map or no map, facets or one panel, points or summary), then returns two or three candidate chart types with reasons, the rejected alternatives, the encoding plan, and an anti-pattern check. Covers roughly seventy chart types across nine communicative intents…
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
# Chart Type Chooser ## Client compatibility Use this skill in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex with the same workflow and resources. Resolve `assets/` and `references/` relative to this `SKILL.md`, not the user's working directory; pass the user's data file by its actual path. Run commands in the user's project so generated files stay with their work. In Codex, invoke explicitly with `$chart-type-chooser` or let the client select it. When handing off to `nature-figure-production` or another client session, carry forward the data paths, computed profile, chosen claim, filters, chart type and encoding plan. If the production skill is unavailable, return that plan for the user to use later. ## Overview Most bad figures are not badly *rendered* — they are badly *chosen*. A beautifully styled grouped bar chart of a time series is still the wrong figure. Choice comes before craft, and it is decided by what the figure must say, not by what data happens to be in the dataframe. This skill runs an eight-step selection procedure and returns candidates with reasons. It does not produce final artwork; hand off to `nature-figure-production` for that. Load references on demand: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alto-r/nature-figure-craft/chart-type-chooser@sha256:900bebc1d071541fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.48824bb, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a2czkbsza7nbksdm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 67 days.
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| git:20261103.48824bb latest | 2026-11-03 | 48824bb | 27,051 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.6462431 | 2026-08-28 | 6462431 | 26,251 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (27051 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
alto-r/nature-figure-craft · 74 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a2czkbsza7nbksdm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alto-r/nature-figure-craft/chart-type-chooser GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/900bebc1d071541f370d39f5d251fc244b1a234991442263111860b9f41e1e27
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.