Paperbanana

Use when user needs academic diagrams, methodology figures, statistical plots, or presentation slides from text descriptions or data files. Also use for evaluating generated figures against references.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add PlutoLei/paperbanana-skill --skill paperbanana

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PlutoLei/paperbanana-skill.git /tmp/paperbanana-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/paperbanana-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/paperbanana

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# PaperBanana - Academic Illustration Generator

Multi-agent pipeline (Retriever → Planner → Stylist → Visualizer → Critic) for publication-quality academic diagrams, statistical plots, and presentation slides.

**API key:** Set provider keys in PaperBanana project's `.env` file.
**Timeout:** 300000 (5 min) for all generation commands.

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## Commands

All commands run from project root: `cd <paperbanana_dir> && python -m paperbanana.cli <cmd>`

### Command Selection Decision Tree

Route user requests to the right subcommand **before** looking up parameters:

| User intent | Signal words | Subcommand |
|-------------|--------------|------------|
| 方法论/架构/流程图 from text or PDF | "method figure", "架构图", "流程图", "methodology", "pipeline diagram", "论文配图" | `generate` |
| Statistical plot from data file | "plot", "curve", "bar chart", "scatter", "heatmap", has CSV/JSON | `plot` |
| Single presentation slide | "slide", "一张幻灯片", "封面图", single prompt file | `slide` |
| Batch slide generation | "all slides", "批量生成", "N 张幻灯片", `prompts/` directory | `slide-batch` |
| Compare generated vs human reference | "evaluate", "对比", "与参考图对比" | `evaluate` |
| Manage reference dataset | "download dataset", "清缓存" | `data` |
| First-time provider config | "setup", "配置 API key" | `setup` |

**Ambiguous input**: If user provides just a description with no subcommand signal, default to `generate` (see Argument Parsing table for details).

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: paperbanana
Repository: PlutoLei/paperbanana-skill
License: MIT
Repo updated: 3 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Paperbanana skill do?

How do I install the Paperbanana skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add PlutoLei/paperbanana-skill --skill paperbanana. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Paperbanana popular?

It lives in PlutoLei/paperbanana-skill, which has 59 GitHub stars and 2 forks.

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