# Figure Table Planner

Plan the smallest set of diagnostic, comparison, paper, and appendix figures or tables...

- Repository: https://github.com/zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills (1073 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-24
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills --skill figure-table-planner -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills --skill figure-table-planner -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills --skill figure-table-planner -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills --skill figure-table-planner -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills`

## Description

Plan the smallest set of diagnostic, comparison, paper, and appendix figures or tables needed to support verified mathematical-modeling decisions and claims.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Purpose

Make every visual evidence-bearing. Prefer fewer useful visuals over a decorative inventory.

# Inputs

- method card and decision ledger;
- run summaries and final result analysis;
- robustness evidence;
- solution package and frozen numbers in submission mode;
- existing figures/tables.

# Figure Types

- Type 1 diagnostic: internal debugging; never in the paper.
- Type 2 comparison: main vs usable baseline or a genuinely tested alternative; optional in paper.
- Type 3 paper: directly supports a main claim; required only when the claim benefits materially from a visual.
- Type 4 appendix: supplementary evidence referenced from the main text.

# Workflow

1. List verified claims that need visual or exact tabular support.
2. Reuse an existing artifact when it already communicates the claim.
3. For each proposed visual record:
   - ID and Qx;
   - type;
   - source artifact and frozen claim IDs when applicable;
   - one core claim;
   - chart/table form;
   - target section;
   - status and render needs.
4. Ask the human to confirm judgment-bearing Type 3 claims through one compact choice card when they are not already in the decision ledger.
5. Save `methods/Qx/qx_figure_table_plan.md` only when durable planning is needed. In lean exploration, a compact in-conversation plan is sufficient.

# Planning Heuristics

- Use tables for exact values, parameters, and small comparisons.
- Use plots for trends, distributions, sensitivity, or many-item comparisons.
- Use diagrams for mechanisms, dependencies, and workflows.
- A main-vs-baseline figure needs compatible metrics and the same evaluation setup.
- Do not create a multi-method comparison merely to imply breadth.

# Rules

The rest: https://github.com/zhnnky329/MathModeling-skills/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/figure-table-planner/SKILL.md