figure-style SKILL.md skillA
figure-style from xuzhougeng/wisp-science is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add xuzhougeng/wisp-science/figure-style@git:20260920.11f0e27Pins git:20260920.11f0e27 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- xuzhougeng/wisp-science
- Path
skills/figure-style/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260920.11f0e27, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 1, 2026
- Size
- 14,103 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,068
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Correctness and legibility checklist for publication figures, plus a matplotlib sidecar. Load before plotting anything and call `apply_figure_style()` (role-mapped font ladder, outward ticks, frameless legends, 300-dpi saves, CJK-safe fonts). Covers data fidelity, label budgets, axis/colour/type rules, chart choice by data shape, composition, and a mandatory render-then-inspect QA pass (bbox collisions + per-panel visual crops). Helpers: focal_palette, bar_with_points, strip_with_median…
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 correctness checklist This skill makes one plot trustworthy and readable. It deliberately has no house aesthetic — frame, font family, and sizes are all parameters of `apply_figure_style()`, which must run before the first plotting call. Multi-panel assembly is `figure-composer`'s job; deciding what each figure in a paper should argue is `paper-narrative`'s. Loading the Python helpers only defines them; it does not select a matplotlib backend or apply a style. Call `apply_figure_style(...)` explicitly for plotting. The optional `figure_style_self_check()` applies the defaults and checks font wiring when called; it is not a load-time check. Two tiers of rule live below. **Hard rules** — everything under *Tell the truth*, *Never do*, and *Prove the render*, plus any rule stating a perceptual or factual invariant (semantic-zero centring, colour-vision safety, leader-line anchoring) — apply to every plot with no override. Everything else is a default: deviate when you have a deliberate reason, not by accident. ## Tell the truth about the data - **Excluded means excluded.** A row the source data marks excluded either …
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How to install
mdr add xuzhougeng/wisp-science/figure-style@sha256:999136495343c5f6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.11f0e27, 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 Jul 1, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 16 days.
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| git:20260920.11f0e27 latest | 2026-09-20 | 11f0e27 | 14,103 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.81e61bf | 2026-09-08 | 81e61bf | 13,612 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.42573eb | 2026-08-16 | 42573eb | 13,324 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.97cf55e | 2026-07-31 | 97cf55e | 17,319 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.77e7d29 | 2026-07-21 | 77e7d29 | 16,776 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.17c5369 | 2026-07-01 | 17c5369 | 16,586 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 (14103 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
xuzhougeng/wisp-science · 1,068 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xi264zm6o7dwpjtu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xuzhougeng/wisp-science/figure-style GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/999136495343c5f6430c18f191805bd878d783ec305fd425a27e8a3b011322a1
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