Literature Review
neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).
Step 2 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.
Install Plotting Agent
$ npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ar9av/PaperOrchestra plotting-agent --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/plotting-agent .claude/skills/plotting-agent && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "plotting-agent" agent skill from https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agent into .claude/skills/plotting-agent/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plotting-agent", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agentType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ar9av/PaperOrchestra plotting-agent --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/plotting-agent .agents/skills/plotting-agent && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "plotting-agent" agent skill from https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agent into .agents/skills/plotting-agent/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plotting-agent", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ar9av/PaperOrchestra plotting-agent --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/plotting-agent .cursor/skills/plotting-agent && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "plotting-agent" agent skill from https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agent into .cursor/skills/plotting-agent/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plotting-agent", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git --path skills/plotting-agent--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ar9av/PaperOrchestra plotting-agent --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/plotting-agent .gemini/skills/plotting-agent && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "plotting-agent" agent skill from https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agent into .gemini/skills/plotting-agent/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plotting-agent", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Ar9av/PaperOrchestra plotting-agentInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/plotting-agent .github/skills/plotting-agent && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "plotting-agent" agent skill from https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agent into .github/skills/plotting-agent/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plotting-agent", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ar9av/PaperOrchestra plotting-agent --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/plotting-agent .opencode/skills/plotting-agent && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "plotting-agent" agent skill from https://github.com/Ar9av/PaperOrchestra/tree/main/skills/plotting-agent into .opencode/skills/plotting-agent/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plotting-agent", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
plotting-agent- GitHub stars
- 676
- Used in
- 2 other repos
- Token cost
- ~2.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 958 words
- Files
- 12 (incl. scripts, references)
- Skills in repo
- 9
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Step 2 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.
- Works in 6 steps: Read the figure spec from outline.json → Few-shot retrieval (visual planning):… → Extract data: parse idea.md and/or… → …
- The orchestrator delegates Step 2
- SKILL.md covers Inputs, Outputs, Workflow and Conceptual diagrams, plus 4 more sections
- Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python
What it does
Plotting Agent is an agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra. Step 2 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). Execute the visualization plan from outline.json — render plots and conceptual diagrams from experimentallog.md and idea.md, optionally refine via VLM critique loop, and produce context-aware captions. Runs in parallel with the literature-review-agent. TRIGGER when the orchestrator delegates Step 2 or when the user asks to "generate the figures for my paper" or "render the plots from this experiment log".
Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 13 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/aspect-ratios.md`, `references/caption-prompt.md` and `references/chart-patterns.md`).
It sits in Research & Science, covering Data visualization, Academic paper search and Diagrams. It works with arXiv. The repository describes itself as: An automated AI research-paper writer based off Google's PaperOrchestra paper's implementation through a skills - benchmark + autoraters using any coding agent (Claude Code…
When your agent uses it
- The orchestrator delegates Step 2
- The user asks to generate the figures for my paper
- Render the plots from this experiment log
Example prompts
- “generate the figures for my paper”
- “render the plots from this experiment log”
- “/plotting-agent”
Requirements
- Python 3
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Read the figure spec from outline.json
- Few-shot retrieval (visual planning): pick the matching pattern from
- Extract data: parse idea.md and/or experimental_log.md
- Render
- VLM critique loop (optional, only if your host has vision)
- Generate the caption using the verbatim Caption Generation prompt at
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 36c3cc4. 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
Ships 5 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python
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
Plotting Agent loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~9.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 121 tokens; SKILL.md has 958 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 958 words (~2,331 tokens).
“Faithful implementation of the Plotting Agent from PaperOrchestra (Song et al., 2026, arXiv:2604.05018, §4 Step 2 and App. F.1 p.45).”
- name
- plotting-agent
Files
SKILL.md and 11 other files (scripts, references) in skills/plotting-agent of Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.
- SKILL.md
- references/aspect-ratios.md
- references/caption-prompt.md
- references/chart-patterns.md
- references/diagram-patterns.md
- references/paperbanana-cookbook.md
- references/plotting-pipeline.md
- scripts/figure_lint.py
- scripts/paperbanana_render.py
- scripts/render_diagram.py
- scripts/render_matplotlib.py
- scripts/test_figure_lint.py
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 36c3cc4
Used in 2 other repositories
We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in Ar9av/PaperOrchestra, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
Compare with similar skills
Plotting Agent 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.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plotting Agent this skillAr9av/PaperOrchestra | 676 | 2 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Literature Reviewneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 21 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Paper Research on arXivXiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code | 14k | 1 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Systematic Literature Review Builderbytedance/deer-flow | 83k | 2 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Arxiv MCP Serverblazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server | 3.2k | — | ~353 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Arxiv Paper Writerappautomaton/latex-arxiv-SKILL | 457 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Plotting Agent
What does Plotting Agent do?
Step 2 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra. Plotting Agent is an agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.05018).
When should I use Plotting Agent?
Plotting Agent fits situations like: the orchestrator delegates Step 2; the user asks to generate the figures for my paper; render the plots from this experiment log.
How do I install Plotting Agent in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/plotting-agent in Ar9av/PaperOrchestra) into .claude/skills/plotting-agent in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Plotting Agent in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/plotting-agent in Ar9av/PaperOrchestra) into .agents/skills/plotting-agent in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Plotting Agent 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 Ar9av/PaperOrchestra --skill plotting-agent -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/plotting-agent, .gemini/skills/plotting-agent, .github/skills/plotting-agent and .opencode/skills/plotting-agent in your project.
What does Plotting Agent need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Plotting Agent needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Plotting Agent 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 Plotting Agent 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Plotting Agent use?
Plotting Agent has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Plotting Agent use?
About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Plotting Agent?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Plotting Agent: Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Paper Research on arXiv (XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code, 14k stars), Systematic Literature Review Builder (bytedance/deer-flow, 83k stars) and Arxiv MCP Server (blazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server, 3.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Plotting Agent?
Ar9av (a GitHub user) maintains it in Ar9av/PaperOrchestra, which has 676 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 21, 2026.
Source: Ar9av/PaperOrchestra on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.