Agent skill

Table Generation

by lingzhi227 in lingzhi227/agent-research-skills

Generate publication-quality LaTeX tables from experimental results.

No licenceAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Table Generation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill table-generation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lingzhi227/agent-research-skills table-generation --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/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/table-generation .claude/skills/table-generation && 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
table-generation
GitHub stars
386
Token cost
~765 tokens
SKILL.md length
250 words
Files
3 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
31
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Generate publication-quality LaTeX tables from experimental results.

  • Works in 5 steps: booktabs rules (\toprule, \midrule,… → \caption{} and \label{tab:...} → Bold best results using \textbf{} → …
  • Creating result tables
  • SKILL.md covers Input, Scripts, References and Table Types, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python

What it does

Table Generation is an agent skill from lingzhi227/agent-research-skills. Generate publication-quality LaTeX tables from experimental results. Convert JSON/CSV data to booktabs-styled tables with bold best results, multi-row layouts, and proper captions. Use when creating result tables, comparison tables, or ablation tables for papers.

Its SKILL.md is about 770 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/table-templates.md` and `scripts/results_to_table.py`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering LaTeX, CSV and tabular files and Data visualization. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: Skills for Claude Code — deep-research: systematic academic literature review.

When your agent uses it

  • Creating result tables
  • Comparison tables
  • Ablation tables for papers

Example prompts

  • “/table-generation”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. booktabs rules (\toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule)
  2. \caption{} and \label{tab:...}
  3. Bold best results using \textbf{}
  4. Table notes via threeparttable when needed
  5. Proper alignment (l for text, c or r for numbers)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9e6c085. 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 1 file 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

Table Generation loads about 765 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 250 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~70
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~765
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.2k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 250 words (~765 tokens).

“Convert experimental results into publication-ready LaTeX tables.”

— opening of SKILL.md by lingzhi227
name
table-generation
argument-hint
data-source

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts, references) in skills/table-generation of lingzhi227/agent-research-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/table-templates.md
  • scripts/results_to_table.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9e6c085

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Questions about Table Generation

What does Table Generation do?

Generate publication-quality LaTeX tables from experimental results. Table Generation is an agent skill from lingzhi227/agent-research-skills. Generate publication-quality LaTeX tables from experimental results.

When should I use Table Generation?

Table Generation fits situations like: creating result tables; comparison tables; ablation tables for papers.

How do I install Table Generation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill table-generation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/table-generation in lingzhi227/agent-research-skills) into .claude/skills/table-generation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Table Generation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill table-generation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/table-generation in lingzhi227/agent-research-skills) into .agents/skills/table-generation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Table Generation 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 lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill table-generation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/table-generation, .gemini/skills/table-generation, .github/skills/table-generation and .opencode/skills/table-generation in your project.

What does Table Generation need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Table Generation needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Table Generation 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 Table Generation 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 Table Generation use?

No licence was found for Table Generation or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Table Generation use?

About 765 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k 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 1.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Table Generation?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Table Generation: Publication Chart Skill (Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, 5.7k stars), Literature Survey (ai4s-research/ai4s-skills, 237 stars), Table (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars) and Latex Drawing Guide (wentorai/research-plugins, 298 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Table Generation?

lingzhi227 (a GitHub user) maintains it in lingzhi227/agent-research-skills, which has 386 GitHub stars. The repository holds 31 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on February 27, 2026.

Source: lingzhi227/agent-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.