Figure Table Quality

What it does

When your agent uses it

• : check figure quality
• Readability check
• Figure rendering
• Are my figures readable

Example prompts

• “check figure quality”
• “audit plots”
• “readability check”
• “/figure-table-quality”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Build the display-scale map
2. 2Per-figure audit (all 9 checks)
3. 3Table audit
4. 4Cross-figure consistency

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4594fb7. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

  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

Figure Table Quality loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 134 tokens; SKILL.md has 682 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~134

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

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

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 Mathews-Tom/armory at commit 4594fb7, republished under its MIT licence (© Mathews-Tom). 682 words, ~1,713 tokens.

name

figure-table-quality

description

Readability and rendering audit for figures and tables in academic manuscripts. Computes effective font/marker sizes at display scale from generation scripts, checks label collisions, color/hatch accessibility, axis-range efficiency, table formatting, and cross-figure consistency. Triggers on: "check figure quality", "audit plots", "readability check", "figure rendering", "are my figures readable", "table formatting check". Companion to figure-rhetoric (visual argument) and manuscript-typography (typesetting).

metadata.version

1.0.0

metadata.complements

figure-rhetoric, manuscript-review, manuscript-typography

metadata.category

review

metadata.tags

figures, tables, readability, rendering, latex

metadata.difficulty

advanced

metadata.phase

review

effective_font = script_font × scale

effective_marker = script_marker × scale
effective_linewidth = script_linewidth × scale

## Figure & Table Quality Report

### Display Scale Map
| Figure | figsize | display | scale | verdict |
|--------|---------|---------|-------|---------|
| fig1   | 7×4     | 6.27"   | 90%   | OK      |

### Per-Figure Findings
#### Figure 1 (fig1_resolve_rates.pdf)
- [PASS] Font sizes: tick 8.1pt, legend 8.1pt
- [PASS] No label collisions
- [WARN] Bar width 3.2pt — borderline at print size
...

### Table Findings
#### Table 1 (table1_resolve.tex)
- [PASS] Booktabs rules
- [PASS] Caption above tabular
...

### Cross-Figure Consistency
- [PASS] Color scheme consistent
- [FAIL] Label mismatch: fig2 uses "cmd", other figures use "Yuj"

### Summary
- [count] FAIL (must fix)
- [count] WARN (should fix)
- [count] PASS

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/figure-table-quality of Mathews-Tom/armory.

• SKILL.md
• evals/cases.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4594fb7