figures SKILL.md skillB
figures from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/figures@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/figures/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 9, 2026
- Size
- 7,249 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Designs publication figures for social-science manuscripts. Covers chart choice, axes and scales, color and accessibility, legend order, captions that carry the title, and script-based reproducibility. Use when making, revising, or critiquing a figure for a paper, such as a coefficient plot, small multiples, a distribution, a trend, a map, or a network. Finished figure sets go to figure-table-audit for end-stage QA.
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 Designer Applies to any figure type in a social-science manuscript. For figures whose interpretation depends on method-specific standards, also consult the relevant sibling skill (`conjoint-design`, `conjoint-diagnostics`, `list-experiment`, `topic-modeling`, `text-classification`, `vlm-ocr`). For end-stage QA on a finished figure set, hand off to `figure-table-audit`. A figure is ready when it makes one comparison legible, can be read without the surrounding text, and can be regenerated from a script. ## Instructions ### 1. State the comparison before drawing Write down, in one sentence, what the figure should let the reader see (for example, "The treatment effect is larger among low-information respondents"). If the comparison does not fit in one sentence, the figure has too many goals; split it into panels or separate figures. ### 2. Choose the chart type from the comparison Match the geometry to the comparison, not to the data type. Two defaults that are often missed: - Effect estimates compared across models or subgroups go in a coefficient plot (point and interval), not a regression table. …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/figures@sha256:ec277c0b079ff10bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, 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 9 versions of this file, between May 9, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20261105.dee0bc5 latest | 2026-11-05 | dee0bc5 | 7,249 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 7,280 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260917.d88ee2d | 2026-09-17 | d88ee2d | 9,653 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 9,622 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 9,706 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260808.245a9ea | 2026-08-08 | 245a9ea | 9,715 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260702.539af7b | 2026-07-02 | 539af7b | 9,168 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260604.328e79a | 2026-06-04 | 328e79a | 9,168 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260509.2e1ffa4 | 2026-05-09 | 2e1ffa4 | 8,383 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7249 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p6ysik4rbwwwfrac GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/figures GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ec277c0b079ff10b0f513a3f5bd03e914ab6430d51f1f2894e3e23f5f6c2e587
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