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thesis-figure-skill

Name: thesis-figure-skill (Claude Skill)
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Paste your paper text, get publication-ready LaTeX/TikZ diagrams — Claude picks the right figure type and draws it.

thesis-figure-skill is a Claude skill for researchers drowning in 'needs figure here' notes: paste a paragraph of your paper or describe the concept, and Claude returns LaTeX/TikZ code for a publication-ready figure (flow diagrams, system architectures, plots, schematic illustrations). Output compiles in any standard LaTeX toolchain.

▶ Watch demo 📦 Install 💡 Use Cases

Why use it

Key features

Paragraph-to-figure: infers the right diagram type from your text
LaTeX/TikZ output — drop into your paper directly
Handles flow diagrams, architectures, plots, schematics
Python helpers for data-driven figures (pgfplots)
English + 中文 prompts

Live Demo

What it looks like in practice

thesis-figure-skill.replay ▶ ready

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Install

Author repository · Claude Skills documentation

Use Cases

Real-world ways to use thesis-figure-skill

How to generate a figure for a specific paragraph of your paper

👤 Grad students and researchers writing papers or theses ⏱ ~15 min intermediate

When to use: You wrote the paragraph, but the reviewer would really appreciate a figure here.

Flow

Paste the paragraph

Paragraph: <text about system architecture>. Generate a TikZ figure that illustrates the architecture.✓ Copied

→ Diagram type picked + TikZ code
Compile and preview

Save the code to fig.tex and compile — show me the PDF path.✓ Copied

→ PDF produced
Iterate

Shrink the node widths and make the arrows straight, not curved.✓ Copied

→ Revised TikZ, compiles cleanly

Outcome: A usable publication-quality figure in under 10 minutes.

Pitfalls

Overly decorated figures that scream 'AI made this' — Ask for minimal, academic-conservative style
Figure size fights the paper's column width — Specify target width (e.g., 0.9\linewidth) up front

Combine with: filesystem

Turn a CSV into a pgfplots chart for your paper

👤 Researchers with experimental results ⏱ ~25 min intermediate

When to use: You have results in CSV and want paper-quality plots, not matplotlib screenshots.

Flow

Feed the CSV

Here's results.csv. Make a pgfplots line chart comparing methods A/B/C on x=batch_size, y=accuracy.✓ Copied

→ pgfplots code + legend
Tweak

Add error bars (std dev from results_std.csv) and log-scale the x-axis.✓ Copied

→ Updated code with error bars

Outcome: A publication-grade plot that scales cleanly.

Pitfalls

Too many colors / markers — Ask for a grayscale- and colorblind-safe palette

Combine with: csv-data-summarizer-claude-skill

Combinations

Pair with other MCPs for X10 leverage

thesis-figure-skill + csv-data-summarizer-claude-skill

Profile the CSV first, then generate plots that reflect its actual shape

Summarize results.csv, then produce pgfplots charts that visualize the findings.✓ Copied

thesis-figure-skill + filesystem

Save figures alongside your paper source

Place every generated figure in paper/figures/.✓ Copied

Tools

What this MCP exposes

Tool	Inputs	When to call
diagram-type-inference	paragraph / concept	Start
tikz-authoring	figure spec	Architectural / schematic diagrams
pgfplots-authoring	CSV + axes spec	Data-driven plots
iterate	previous figure + change request	Revisions

Cost & Limits

What this costs to run

API quota: none
Tokens per call: ~2–8k per figure
Monetary: free
Tip: Get one figure right first (style/size), then clone the pattern for siblings

Security

Permissions, secrets, blast radius

Credential storage: none

Data egress: none — everything is local TeX

Troubleshooting

Common errors and fixes

pdflatex errors on pgfplots

Update pgfplots and ensure \usepackage{pgfplots}\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} or similar.

Verify: kpsewhich pgfplots.sty

TikZ nodes overlap

Ask for named positioning using node distance and relative placements

Figure too big for column

Set scale= or wrap in resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{...}

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