Tikz Scientific Figures
Create publication-grade scientific figures and schematic diagrams with TikZ/PGFPlots, output as vector PDF (and SVG for visual editing). Use when the user wants a figure for a paper/thesis/report, a data plot (line, scatter, bar, error-bar, heatmap, log axis), a circuit diagram, a flowchart or block diagram, a free-body/force or geometry schematic, a biology figure (immunofluorescence/tissue, cell, signaling pathway, gene or plasmid map), a CS/ML figure (neural network, system architecture, finite-state machine, tree, graph), or a molecular structure — especially when they mention TikZ, PGFPl
Install
npx skills add PM-Shawn/tikz-scientific-figures --skill tikz-scientific-figuresgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PM-Shawn/tikz-scientific-figures.git /tmp/tikz-scientific-figures
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/tikz-scientific-figures/. ~/.claude/skills/tikz-scientific-figuresPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# TikZ Scientific Figures Generate reproducible, publication-grade figures in TikZ. One figure = one `standalone` `.tex` file that compiles to a tightly-cropped vector PDF. Always deliver the `.tex` (+ any data file) so the figure stays editable. ## Step 0 — check the toolchain (first run only) ```bash bash scripts/check_env.sh ``` If tools are missing, show the user the printed install hints (OS-aware: macOS/Windows/Linux) and stop until the toolchain is in place. Need: a LaTeX engine (pdflatex — the scripts' default; lualatex needs luatex85), poppler (preview), and for SVG export dvisvgm + mutool (mupdf-tools). latexmk is optional — the scripts run the engine twice without it. **Cross-platform note.** The recipes and TikZ code are OS-independent (identical output on macOS/Windows/Linux). The four `.sh` scripts are portable bash: on Windows run them from Git Bash or WSL. If no bash is available, run the underlying commands directly — `compile` ≈ `pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error figure.tex` (run twice), `preview` ≈ `pdftoppm -png -r 200 -singlefile figure.pdf out`, `export_svg` ≈ `dvisvgm --pdf figure.pdf`. On Windows, MiKTeX auto-installs missing LaTeX packages on first compile, so the "optional packages" step is usually unnecessary there. ## Workflow 1. **Pick the figure type** and read the matching recipe (only that one): - data plot (line/scatter/bar/hist/box/heatmap/contour/3D/log) → `references/pgfplots-recipes.md`
Details
- Skill name
tikz-scientific-figures- Repository
- PM-Shawn/tikz-scientific-figures
- Repo updated
- 6 June 2026
FAQ
What does the Tikz Scientific Figures skill do?
Create publication-grade scientific figures and schematic diagrams with TikZ/PGFPlots, output as vector PDF (and SVG for visual editing). Use when the user wants a figure for a paper/thesis/report, a data plot (line, scatter, bar, error-bar, heatmap, log axis), a circuit diagram, a flowchart or block diagram, a free-body/force or geometry schematic, a biology figure (immunofluorescence/tissue, cell, signaling pathway, gene or plasmid map), a CS/ML figure (neural network, system architecture, finite-state machine, tree, graph), or a molecular structure — especially when they mention TikZ, PGFPl
How do I install the Tikz Scientific Figures skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add PM-Shawn/tikz-scientific-figures --skill tikz-scientific-figures. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Tikz Scientific Figures popular?
It lives in PM-Shawn/tikz-scientific-figures, which has 5 GitHub stars and 0 forks.
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