make-figures

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By Aperivue/medsci-skills (GitHub) · research · 379 stars · scanned at commit e0ea3b0

Use when a paper needs publication-ready figures or a visual abstract. Makes ROC, forest, calibration, Kaplan-Meier and Bland-Altman plots, CONSORT/STARD/PRISMA flow diagrams, confusion matrices, pipeline diagrams and journal visual abstracts, checking the journal's AI-image policy first.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 14 places.

skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 71python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate_image.py \
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 109python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py \
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 139python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py \

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skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 158python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py \
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 265python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/critic_figure.py \
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 331python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/export_portal_tiff.py --in figure.png --out figure.tiff --max-mb 25
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 344python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/validate_pptx_mac_compat.py \
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 435python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/derive_figure_legend_counts.py \
skills/make-figures/SKILL.md, line 468bash ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/fetch_official_templates.sh
skills/make-figures/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py, line 268subprocess.run(
skills/make-figures/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py, line 281except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
skills/make-figures/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py, line 283except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
skills/make-figures/tests/test_critic_figure.py, line 45p = subprocess.run([sys.executable, str(CRITIC), str(img), "--type", "other", "--out", str(out), *extra],
skills/make-figures/tests/test_pptx_mac_compat.py, line 44return subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True).returncode

Downloads and installs other software

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Found in 5 places.

skills/make-figures/references/figure_specs.md, line 303`brew install librsvg` (macOS; one-time). On Linux: `apt-get install librsvg2-bin`.
skills/make-figures/references/flow_diagram_recipe.md, line 19brew install librsvg
skills/make-figures/scripts/critic_figure.py, line 145return {"passed": None, "note": "pytesseract not installed; install with `pip install pytesseract` (tesseract binary already at /opt/homebrew/bin/tesseract)"}

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skills/make-figures/scripts/export_portal_tiff.py, line 57"ERROR: Pillow is required (pip install Pillow) — the same dependency the "
skills/make-figures/scripts/generate_visual_abstract.py, line 280print("Install with: brew install --cask libreoffice", file=sys.stderr)

Sends data to these websites: generativelanguage.googleapis.com

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 3 places.

skills/make-figures/scripts/build_prisma2020_template.py, line 8WebFetch, Wayback Machine all return the redirect HTML stub, not the file).
skills/make-figures/scripts/fetch_official_templates.sh, line 63if curl -fsSL --retry 2 --max-time 30 -A "${UA}" -o "${out}.tmp" "${url}"; then
skills/make-figures/scripts/generate_image.py, line 32import google.generativeai as genai

Can call paid AI services billed to you

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Found in 1 place.

skills/make-figures/scripts/generate_image.py, line 32import google.generativeai as genai

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'make-figures' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'make-figures' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named make-figures already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e0ea3b0be3bf529aa0b94ee5fd8450e78848932c' -- 'skills/make-figures' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/make-figures' ~/.agents/skills/'make-figures' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'make-figures' ~/.claude/skills/'make-figures' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-13	`e0ea3b0`	65
2026-11-07	`cc462bc`	100