figure-rhetoric SKILL.md skillA
figure-rhetoric from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/figure-rhetoric@v1.0.0Pins 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-rhetoric/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 3, 2026
- Size
- 18,004 bytes
- Repository stars
- 334
- License
- MIT
Evaluate whether figures and plots in a manuscript effectively communicate the claims they support. Audits chart-type fit, axis design, visual hierarchy, data density, caption interpretation, perceptual accuracy, and narrative arc across 8 dimensions. Triggers on: "do my figures work", "check my plots", "are my graphs clear", "figure audit", "do my figures support my claims", "visualization review", "figure rhetoric", "plot review", "chart critique", "visual argument check". Companion to…
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 Rhetoric Audit **Pipeline position:** Phase 1b (content audit). Runs in parallel with manuscript-review. Requires compiled PDF. No prior dependencies. See `/manuscript-pipeline` for full execution order. ## Purpose Evaluate every figure in a manuscript as a *rhetorical act* — a visual argument that must land with the reader. Each figure exists to communicate a specific claim. This skill audits whether the figure actually achieves that communication, or whether it undermines, obscures, or contradicts the author's intent. A figure that is technically correct but rhetorically ineffective is a wasted opportunity. Reviewers form judgments from figures before reading the methodology. A figure that fails to show what the text claims creates doubt even when the underlying data supports the claim. ## Relationship to Other Skills | Concern | This skill (figure-rhetoric) | manuscript-review | manuscript-typography | |---------|------------------------------|-------------------|-----------------------| | Chart type selection | Is this the right chart for this claim? | N/A | N/A | | Visual emphasis | Does the figure draw attention to the right thing? | N/A | N/A | …
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How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/figure-rhetoric@sha256:a06d17f02e714a6fThe 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.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 3, 2026.
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vmzfe2pvixggr3zl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/figure-rhetoric GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a06d17f02e714a6fbe5b52071b00a4c1ae1bb9a85aa176532c3fe653af116b70
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