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visualization-patterns is agent-read markdown (skill) from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst: Apply whenever you generate any chart, graph, or data visualization — from SQL results, in the chart-maker agent, in decks, or on "make a chart / visualize / plot / dashboard" requests. Enforces Storytelling With Data: gray first, one focus color, action titles, direct labels, no pies, using the helpers in helpers/viz/chart_helpers.py..

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# Skill: Visualization Patterns

## Purpose
Ensure every chart Claude Code produces follows high-quality design standards with named themes, consistent styling, and clear data communication.

## When to Use
Apply this skill whenever generating a chart, graph, or data visualization.

### When someone asks for a pie chart

Do not make the pie. Make the sorted bar (or a single stacked bar for parts of a whole), say
in one sentence why (angles and areas are hard to compare; a bar shows the same shares with
direct labels), and offer the pie only if they insist after seeing the bar. Producing both
"to be safe" is not the standard; the bar is the deliverable.

### Default Theme: Minimal

When no theme or palette is set, use the default styling without asking; offer
palette options only when the user asks about themes or colors.

The **minimal** theme is clean, professional, and suitable for most business contexts:
- Warm off-white background (#F7F6F2) for reduced eye strain
- Focus blue accent (#0072B2, an Okabe-Ito color) for the one element the takeaway argues
- Helvetica font family
- Left-aligned titles, minimal gridlines
…

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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (21953 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

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ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst · 302 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main

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