Agent skill

Vis Artifact Evaluation

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when packaging an IEEE VIS artifact for the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) / TVCG Replicability Stamp and the IEEE VIS Open Practices program, covering what…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Vis Artifact Evaluation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-artifact-evaluation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills vis-artifact-evaluation --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/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/VIS-Skills/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation .claude/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation && 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
vis-artifact-evaluation
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
509 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when packaging an IEEE VIS artifact for the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) / TVCG Replicability Stamp and the IEEE VIS Open Practices program, covering what…

  • Covering what an independent GRSI volunteer reproduces first
  • SKILL.md covers What GRSI certifies (verify…, What a GRSI volunteer opens…, Packaging plan and Anonymized review artifact vs.…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • DOI-issuing archives

What it does

Vis Artifact Evaluation is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when packaging an IEEE VIS artifact for the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) / TVCG Replicability Stamp and the IEEE VIS Open Practices program, covering what an independent GRSI volunteer reproduces first, DOI-issuing archives, evaluator-proof documentation for visualization code and data, and how VIS reproducibility differs from ACM-style artifact badges.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Research & Science, covering Reproducible research. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Covering what an independent GRSI volunteer reproduces first
  • DOI-issuing archives
  • Evaluator-proof documentation for visualization code and data
  • How VIS reproducibility differs from ACM-style artifact badges

Example prompts

  • “/vis-artifact-evaluation”

Requirements

  • Docker

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. 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

Vis Artifact Evaluation loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 509 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 509 words, ~1,330 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
vis-artifact-evaluation
description
Use when packaging an IEEE VIS artifact for the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) / TVCG Replicability Stamp and the IEEE VIS Open Practices program, covering what an independent GRSI volunteer reproduces first, DOI-issuing archives, evaluator-proof documentation for visualization code and data, and how VIS reproducibility differs from ACM-style artifact badges.

VIS Artifact Evaluation

Use this for the reproducibility track. IEEE VIS does not use ACM-style artifact badges; its recognition is the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) — issued to TVCG papers as the TVCG Replicability Stamp — plus the conference's Open Practices program. Two things to internalize: the stamp is earned by an independent volunteer actually reproducing your results from a public archive, and the review artifact (anonymized, for your paper's reviewers) is not the same deliverable as the stamp artifact (de-anonymized, permanently archived).

What GRSI certifies (verify the current process)

MechanismWhat it certifiesWhat earns it
TVCG Replicability Stamp (GRSI)An independent volunteer reproduced the paper's results from your code/dataA public repository + a single documented build/run path that regenerates the key figures/results
Open Practices disclosuresTransparent reporting of open code, data, preprints, preregistrationFilling the camera-ready Open Practices form honestly and posting the materials

Unlike a graded badge ladder, the stamp is binary: an evaluator either reproduces your results or does not. The failure mode is therefore always "it did not build/run on their machine," never "the idea was weak" — design for a stranger's clean environment.

What a GRSI volunteer opens first

Claim typeFirst thing reproducedCommon failure caught
A visualization technique/algorithmThe build + a script that regenerates a key figureUndocumented deps; only-builds-on-authors'-GPU
A system/toolThe install and a demo on bundled sample dataRequires a private server, API key, or paid license
A perceptual/empirical studyThe analysis scripts that turn raw responses into the paper's statsNumbers in the PDF no script reproduces; raw data missing
A rendering resultThe pipeline + reference images with a comparisonNon-deterministic output with no tolerance/seed documented

Assume the evaluator gives your package a bounded time budget on a clean machine. The first build and the first regenerated figure must succeed.

Packaging plan

text
[Container]   ship a Dockerfile or a pinned environment (requirements/lockfile, exact toolchain
              versions); avoid "install these 40 things by hand" and undocumented GPU/driver needs
[README]      one-screen orientation: what it is, how to build, how to run the demo, how to
              regenerate each figure/result, expected runtime and outputs
[Mapping]     an explicit table: paper figure/result -> script -> expected output
[Data]        the actual dataset or stimuli (or documented access), not just a pointer
[Determinism] seeds, tolerances, and reference images for anything stochastic or GPU-dependent
[License]     an OSI-approved license so others can reuse the visualization code
[Archive]     deposit in a DOI-issuing repository (OSF, Zenodo, Software Heritage) for permanence
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Anonymized review artifact vs. stamp artifact

  • At submission (if double-blind): the supplemental code/data/video is anonymized for the paper's reviewers — no owner strings, lab names, institutional URLs, or identity-revealing demo links, and no live repository that discloses authors.
  • After acceptance: replace anonymized placeholders with the public, licensed, DOI-issuing archive; this is the version a GRSI volunteer reproduces and the camera-ready cites.

Worked vignette: stamping a technique + system paper

A paper contributes a new graph-layout technique and an interactive system. To target the stamp: ship a Docker image with the layout code pre-built; a run_demo.sh that lays out a small bundled graph and writes the teaser figure in under a minute; a reproduce/ directory whose scripts regenerate each quantitative figure from logged benchmark data; a figure-to-script mapping in the README; the benchmark graphs themselves with provenance; and an MIT/BSD license. State honestly which figures are turnkey and which need the full (slow) benchmark run.

Calibration

  • The GRSI review is independent of and after camera-ready; do not conflate them, and do not block the paper on the stamp result.
  • The exact GRSI submission process, the Open Practices requirements, and whether any element is mandatory vary by cycle — confirm on the current Open Practices page and the GRSI site.

Output format

text
[Target recognition] TVCG Replicability Stamp / Open Practices disclosures
[Artifact role] anonymized review artifact / public stamp artifact
[Contents] <code/data/stimuli/determinism aids/license>
[Clean-machine test] does build + demo + one regenerated figure succeed? yes/no
[Figure mapping] <figure/result -> script -> expected output present? yes/no>
[Fixes before archiving] <ordered list>

© brycewang-stanford, 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 VIS-Skills/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Vis Artifact Evaluation

What does Vis Artifact Evaluation do?

A skill your agent uses when packaging an IEEE VIS artifact for the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) / TVCG Replicability Stamp and the IEEE VIS Open Practices program, covering what…. Vis Artifact Evaluation is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when packaging an IEEE VIS artifact for the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI) / TVCG Replicability Stamp and the IEEE VIS Open Practices program, covering what an independent GRSI volunteer reproduces first, DOI-issuing archives, evaluator-proof documentation for visualization code and data, and how VIS reproducibility differs from ACM-style artifact badges.

When should I use Vis Artifact Evaluation?

Vis Artifact Evaluation fits situations like: covering what an independent GRSI volunteer reproduces first; DOI-issuing archives; evaluator-proof documentation for visualization code and data; how VIS reproducibility differs from ACM-style artifact badges.

How do I install Vis Artifact Evaluation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-artifact-evaluation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (VIS-Skills/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Vis Artifact Evaluation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-artifact-evaluation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (VIS-Skills/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Vis Artifact Evaluation 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 brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-artifact-evaluation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation, .gemini/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation, .github/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation and .opencode/skills/vis-artifact-evaluation in your project.

What does Vis Artifact Evaluation need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Vis Artifact Evaluation is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Docker.

Does Vis Artifact Evaluation 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 Vis Artifact Evaluation 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 Vis Artifact Evaluation use?

Vis Artifact Evaluation 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 Vis Artifact Evaluation use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Vis Artifact Evaluation?

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Who maintains Vis Artifact Evaluation?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.