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Academic Figure Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

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Publication-ready matplotlib figures for academic papers, as a Claude skill.

How to install Academic Figure Skill

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open liuhao030922/academic-figure-skill and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Academic Figure Skill does

Publication-ready matplotlib figures for academic papers, as a Claude skill. IEEE/ACM/USENIX/ICML/NeurIPS presets, 9 chart forms, colorblind-checked palette.

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README

Academic Figure Skill

**English** | [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md)

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Publication-ready matplotlib figures for academic papers, packaged as a **Claude skill**. Tell Claude what to plot; it picks the right chart, sizes it to your venue's column, uses a venue-oriented serif fallback, and checks the result before handing it back. Works just as well as a plain Python style module without Claude.

![Before and after](assets/before_after.png)

Gallery

Nine chart forms that cover most systems / ML papers. Every panel is a `draw_*` function in [`examples/gallery.py`](examples/gallery.py) you can copy. All data is synthetic.

![Gallery](assets/gallery.png)

Why this and not just a style file?

	Style file only (e.g. SciencePlots)	This skill
Fonts and sizes per venue	✓	✓ IEEE · ACM · USENIX · ICML · NeurIPS · article
Venue-aware column / text widths	—	✓ `figsize("column", 2.2)`
Chart-form guidance	—	✓ which chart for which data, and which never to use
Helpers for research charts	—	✓ seed whiskers, bands, CDF p99, annotated heatmaps
Checks before finishing	—	✓ Claude renders and looks for overlaps and clipping
Data safety	—	✓ never puts unpublished results in public examples

Ask Claude

Once installed, just describe the figure. Claude loads the skill automatically.

**"My paper uses IEEEtran. Plot SLO attainment for FCFS vs. ours across four load levels from `results.csv`, three seeds each."**

→ grouped bars at 3.45 in, gray baseline / blue method,