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figure-qa

Use this skill to QA a scientific figure for journal compliance, alignment, palette correctness, and text legibility. Triggers on "QA this figure", "check this figure", "review my figure", "is this figure paper-ready", "validate figure", "check the text in this figure", or when invoked after a figures skill produces output (unless the caller passes no-qa). Dispatches on input type (SVG, raster PNG/JPG/TIFF, Python plot script, or composed-figure directory), runs the programmatic checks including OCR of expected strings and palette compliance against the project theme, adds a vision rubric pass

ScannedSkillSource: GitHub

48 stars Updated 20d ago License BSD-3-Clause Context ≈153 tokens always loaded

56popular

Why this score

Stars

5/35

Usage (forks)

1/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 48 stars are split between them (about 5 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 56/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 6ef2fd7ac17e, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

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Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.

Name	Score	Stars	Context	Updated
This onefigure-qa neuromechanist/research-skills · Skill	56	★ 48	≈153 always	20d ago
nature-figure Yuan1z0825/nature-skills · Skill Both about figure and scientific	86	★ 49k	≈23 always	17d ago
slide-figures minorun365/minorun-marp-skill · Skill Both about figure and svg	63	★ 409	≈30 always	1mo ago
ai-qa-review petrkindlmann/qa-skills · Skill Both about qa	52	★ 195	≈23 always	5mo ago
light-figure Light0305/Light-skills · Skill Both about figure	57	★ 680	≈19 always	4mo ago
qa-bach MaxMiksa/Autonomous-Company · Subagent Both about qa	69	★ 3.1k	≈17 in chat	18d ago

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/figure-qa

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/neuromechanist/research-skills/tar.gz/6ef2fd7ac17e5ed42715f0378d8c631fabceb9f0 | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/figure-qa --strip-components=5 "research-skills-6ef2fd7ac17e5ed42715f0378d8c631fabceb9f0/plugins/figures/skills/figure-qa"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/figure-qa

npx skills add neuromechanist/research-skills --skill figure-qa

Pinned to commit 6ef2fd7ac17e as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈153 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈1.4k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Used for

Engineering › Testing & QA Security › Compliance Operations › Documents & PDFs Personal productivity › Productivity

Facts

Repo: neuromechanist/research-skills
Stars: 48
Forks: 8
Last push: 2026-10-15 (20d ago)
License: BSD-3-Clause
Owner: neuromechanist · since 2018
Language: Python
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI