Agent skill

Visualization Selection

by aiming-lab in aiming-lab/MetaClaw

A skill your agent uses when creating charts, plots, or dashboards.

MITAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Visualization Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add aiming-lab/MetaClaw --skill visualization-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install aiming-lab/MetaClaw visualization-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aiming-lab/MetaClaw.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/memory_data/skills/visualization-selection .claude/skills/visualization-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
visualization-selection
GitHub stars
3.5k
Token cost
~213 tokens
SKILL.md length
75 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
36
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when creating charts, plots, or dashboards.

  • Creating charts
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Data visualization

What it does

Visualization Selection is an agent skill from aiming-lab/MetaClaw. Use this skill when creating charts, plots, or dashboards. Choose the visualization type that best communicates the data relationship before writing any plotting code.

Its SKILL.md is about 210 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data visualization. The repository describes itself as: 🦞 Just talk to your agent — it learns and EVOLVES 🧬. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Creating charts
  • Tasks that involve Data visualization

Example prompts

  • “/visualization-selection”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 922caf3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Visualization Selection loads about 213 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 48 tokens; SKILL.md has 75 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~48
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~213

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from aiming-lab/MetaClaw at commit 922caf3, republished under its MIT licence (© aiming-lab). 75 words, ~213 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/visualization-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
visualization-selection
description
Use this skill when creating charts, plots, or dashboards. Choose the visualization type that best communicates the data relationship before writing any plotting code.
category
data_analysis

Visualization Selection Guide

GoalChart Type
Compare categoriesBar chart (horizontal if many labels)
Show distributionHistogram, box plot, violin plot
Show trend over timeLine chart
Show correlationScatter plot, heatmap
Show part-to-wholePie (<=5 slices), stacked bar

Principles:

  • Label axes and include units.
  • Use color purposefully — not just for decoration.
  • Avoid 3D charts; they distort perception.
  • Start y-axis at 0 for bar charts (truncated bars mislead).
  • Use a colorblind-safe palette (e.g., viridis, colorbrewer).

© aiming-lab, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in memory_data/skills/visualization-selection of aiming-lab/MetaClaw.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 922caf3

Compare with similar skills

Visualization Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Questions about Visualization Selection

What does Visualization Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when creating charts, plots, or dashboards. Visualization Selection is an agent skill from aiming-lab/MetaClaw. Use this skill when creating charts, plots, or dashboards.

When should I use Visualization Selection?

Visualization Selection fits situations like: creating charts; tasks that involve Data visualization.

How do I install Visualization Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add aiming-lab/MetaClaw --skill visualization-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (memory_data/skills/visualization-selection in aiming-lab/MetaClaw) into .claude/skills/visualization-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Visualization Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add aiming-lab/MetaClaw --skill visualization-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (memory_data/skills/visualization-selection in aiming-lab/MetaClaw) into .agents/skills/visualization-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Visualization Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add aiming-lab/MetaClaw --skill visualization-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/visualization-selection, .gemini/skills/visualization-selection, .github/skills/visualization-selection and .opencode/skills/visualization-selection in your project.

What does Visualization Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Visualization Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Visualization Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Visualization Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Visualization Selection use?

Visualization Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Visualization Selection use?

About 213 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 852 characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Visualization Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Visualization Selection: Create HTML Embed (adithya-s-k/FineEnvs, 421 stars), Scholar Ling (joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, 167 stars), Bio Data Visualization Dimensionality Reduction Plots (GPTomics/bioSkills, 1.2k stars) and Bio Data Visualization Ggplot2 Fundamentals (GPTomics/bioSkills, 1.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Visualization Selection?

aiming-lab (a GitHub organization) maintains it in aiming-lab/MetaClaw, which has 3,459 GitHub stars. The repository holds 36 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 7, 2026.

Source: aiming-lab/MetaClaw on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.