Figure Composer

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Figure outlining
• Parallel panel rendering
• Exact-grid composition
• Visual inspection

Example prompts

• “/figure-composer”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Build an outline matching figure_outline_schema(). Put real paths in
2. 2Make panel a the conceptual hook and panel b the primary evidence. Use a
3. 3Build one instruction per panel with panel_task(...).
4. 4If delegate_tasks is advertised, submit the independent panel tasks as one
5. 5Compose returned paths with compose_figure(...). Do not pass placeholder
6. 6Save the compose_crops(...) boxes with figure-style's
7. 7Build one reviewer instruction with composite_review_task(...). Delegate it
8. 8Apply outline revisions and regenerate only affected panels. Stop after three

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2ba143b. 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 script files (Python), 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

Figure Composer loads about 966 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 361 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~90

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

~966

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 xuzhougeng/wisp-science at commit 2ba143b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© xuzhougeng). 361 words, ~966 tokens.

name

figure-composer

description

Compose or improve a publication-grade multi-panel scientific figure from a claim, concrete data paths, or an existing image. Use for figure outlining, parallel panel rendering, exact-grid composition, visual inspection, and adversarial figure review. Use figure-style for one standalone plot and paper-narrative for whole-paper figure ordering.

license

Apache-2.0

{
  "claim": "Treatment restores the disease-associated trajectory.",
  "width_mm": 180,
  "ncol": 12,
  "row_heights_mm": [42, 60],
  "panels": [
    {
      "letter": "a",
      "role": "schematic",
      "row": 0,
      "col": 0,
      "colspan": 12,
      "chart_family": "study schematic",
      "message": "The experiment tests trajectory rescue.",
      "data_path": null,
      "ask": "Show cohorts, treatment, sampling, and comparison."
    },
    {
      "letter": "b",
      "role": "primary",
      "row": 1,
      "col": 0,
      "colspan": 12,
      "chart_family": "trajectory plot",
      "message": "Treatment moves cells toward the healthy trajectory.",
      "data_path": "results/trajectory.csv",
      "ask": "Plot disease, treated, and healthy cells with confidence bands."
    }
  ]
}

© xuzhougeng, Apache-2.0. 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-composer of xuzhougeng/wisp-science.

• SKILL.md
• runtime.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2ba143b