CD scientific-visualization
Creates and audits truthful, accessible, publication-ready scientific figures with Matplotlib, Seaborn or Plotly, covering figure design, multi-panel layouts, uncertainty and missing-data displays, colour and contrast review, image metadata validation and journal export planning. Load alongside figures when a plot must meet a specific journal's requirements or needs an accessibility or export audit. Not for diagrams (use schematics) or illustrations (use generate-image).
Creates and audits truthful, accessible, publication-ready scientific figures with Matplotlib, Seaborn or Plotly, covering figure design, multi-panel layouts…
As a process D 49/100 · Unfinished process — References files that are not bundled: assets/publication.mplstyle, assets/nature.mplstyle, assets/presentation.mplstyle
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash Glob Grep
Files scanned: 15. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/publication.mplstyle - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/nature.mplstyle - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: assets/presentation.mplstyle - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "summary" - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "role" - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 121): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 49/100
- 0Tools and files. 3 referenced file(s) missing: assets/publication.mplstyle, assets/nature.mplstyle, assets/presentation.mplstyle
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 13 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 100Steps. 63 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2984 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -31 of 7 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 475: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 22 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 63 items
- +4Has examples (10 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (5 of 5)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 76.