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FigMirror

Mirrors the visual style of a top-conference paper figure onto your own data, producing a camera-ready PDF and a self-contained matplotlib script.

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Install FigMirror

skills CLI

$ npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install VILA-Lab/FigMirror figmirror --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/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/figmirror .claude/skills/figmirror && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "figmirror" agent skill from https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror into .claude/skills/figmirror/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "figmirror", 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

$skill-installer install https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror

Type 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install VILA-Lab/FigMirror figmirror --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/figmirror .agents/skills/figmirror && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "figmirror" agent skill from https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror into .agents/skills/figmirror/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "figmirror", 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install VILA-Lab/FigMirror figmirror --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/figmirror .cursor/skills/figmirror && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "figmirror" agent skill from https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror into .cursor/skills/figmirror/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "figmirror", 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

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git --path .codex/skills/figmirror

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install VILA-Lab/FigMirror figmirror --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/figmirror .gemini/skills/figmirror && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "figmirror" agent skill from https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror into .gemini/skills/figmirror/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "figmirror", 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.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install VILA-Lab/FigMirror figmirror

Installs 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).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/figmirror .github/skills/figmirror && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "figmirror" agent skill from https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror into .github/skills/figmirror/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "figmirror", 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install VILA-Lab/FigMirror figmirror --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/figmirror .opencode/skills/figmirror && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "figmirror" agent skill from https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror/tree/main/.codex/skills/figmirror into .opencode/skills/figmirror/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "figmirror", 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: figmirror
GitHub stars: 523
Token cost: ~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length: 976 words
Files: 25 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo: 2
Repo updated: Sep 30, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: None found

At a glance

Mirrors the visual style of a top-conference paper figure onto your own data, producing a camera-ready PDF and a self-contained matplotlib script.

Works in 9 steps: Read these bundled references from this… → Preserve the uploaded reference as… → Echo the parsed data structure before… → …
Plotting your data in the style of a paper's figure
SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, 3D Insert Gate, Architecture and Workflow, plus 2 more sections
Producing a camera-ready matplotlib figure from a reference screenshot

What it does

FigMirror takes messy data plus a screenshot of a reference figure from the style family of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR or Nature papers, and recreates that visual style with your numbers. It first preprocesses the reference crop, then runs a Drawer and Reviewer loop and outputs a camera-ready PDF plus a self-contained matplotlib script with an inline data section you can edit, along with PNG outputs.

The data can arrive as a pasted table, CSV, TSV, a markdown table or dirty terminal text. A Python runner owns the interface, cancellation and bootstrap, while the top-level Codex process acts only as orchestrator for iteration state, role dispatch, deterministic review gates and final selection. Drawer and Reviewer run as separate named subagents, and the Reviewer sees only a staged audit view and returns strict JSON. A separate 3D insert is enabled only when the reference or data is genuinely 3D, such as surfaces, scatter plots, trajectories or 3D bars.

When your agent uses it

Plotting your data in the style of a paper's figure
Producing a camera-ready matplotlib figure from a reference screenshot
Recreating a 3D surface, scatter or bar figure style
Getting an editable script with the data embedded

Example prompts

“Plot my results.csv in the style of this NeurIPS figure screenshot.”
“Mirror the layered waterfall style from fig3.png using my timing numbers.”
“Give me a camera-ready PDF and an editable matplotlib script for this table, styled like the reference.”

Requirements

Python with matplotlib
A reference figure screenshot in PNG or JPG
Your data in any parseable form
A Codex session that can spawn the Drawer and Reviewer subagents

Workflow steps

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

Read these bundled references from this skill directory
Preserve the uploaded reference as inputs/reference_raw.png, then run the
Echo the parsed data structure before drawing. If the user explicitly asked you
When the 3D insert gate is enabled, stage references/three-d-prompting.md
In Codex, the top-level agent follows references/orchestrator-codex.md and
Stage audit_view_, run scripts/figannot.py compose to create
Run scripts/figannot.py review-decision after every Reviewer result. A
Stop when the deterministic gate returns ship: the quality floor passed,
Write final figure.py, figure.png, figure.pdf, output.png,

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 11631cc. 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/, which the agent can run.
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

FigMirror loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~47k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 976 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~2.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them: ~47k

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 976 words (~2,359 tokens).

“Use this skill when the user wants to:”

— opening of SKILL.md by VILA-Lab

name: figmirror

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 24 other files (scripts, references) in .codex/skills/figmirror of VILA-Lab/FigMirror.

SKILL.md
agents/openai.yaml
references/aesthetic-library.md
references/drawer.md
references/orchestrator-codex.md
references/preprocessor.md
references/reviewer.md
references/three-d-prompting.md
references/three-d/candidate-selection.md
references/three-d/core.md
references/three-d/extrema-fold-network.md
references/three-d/fractured-surfaces.md
references/three-d/marks-and-panels.md
references/three-d/material-lighting.md
references/three-d/patch-composition.md
references/three-d/repair-feedback.md
references/three-d/reviewer-scorecard.md
references/three-d/scale-occupancy.md
… and 7 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 11631cc

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Questions about FigMirror

What does FigMirror do?

Mirrors the visual style of a top-conference paper figure onto your own data, producing a camera-ready PDF and a self-contained matplotlib script. FigMirror takes messy data plus a screenshot of a reference figure from the style family of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR or Nature papers, and recreates that visual style with your numbers. It first preprocesses the reference crop, then runs a Drawer and Reviewer loop and outputs a camera-ready PDF plus a self-contained matplotlib script with an inline data section you can edit, along with PNG outputs.

When should I use FigMirror?

FigMirror fits situations like: plotting your data in the style of a paper's figure; producing a camera-ready matplotlib figure from a reference screenshot; recreating a 3D surface, scatter or bar figure style; getting an editable script with the data embedded.

How do I install FigMirror in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.codex/skills/figmirror in VILA-Lab/FigMirror) into .claude/skills/figmirror in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install FigMirror in Codex?

Run `npx skills add VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.codex/skills/figmirror in VILA-Lab/FigMirror) into .agents/skills/figmirror in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use FigMirror 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 VILA-Lab/FigMirror --skill figmirror -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/figmirror, .gemini/skills/figmirror, .github/skills/figmirror and .opencode/skills/figmirror in your project.

What does FigMirror need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: FigMirror is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python with matplotlib; A reference figure screenshot in PNG or JPG; Your data in any parseable form; A Codex session that can spawn the Drawer and Reviewer subagents.

Does FigMirror 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 FigMirror 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 FigMirror use?

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

How many tokens does FigMirror use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.4k 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 44k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to FigMirror?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with FigMirror: Scientific Figure Making (ChenLiu-1996/figures4papers, 8.2k stars), Agent Figure Gallery (Dsadd4/AgentFigureGallery, 159 stars), Scientific Figure Generation (lingzhi227/agent-research-skills, 384 stars) and MathModel Figure Templates (jihe520/MathModelAgent, 6.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains FigMirror?

VILA-Lab (a GitHub organization) maintains it in VILA-Lab/FigMirror, which has 523 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 30, 2026.

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

FigMirror

Install FigMirror

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Files

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Install FigMirror

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Files

Compare with similar skills

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MathModel Figure Templates

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Fin Arch Diagram

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