Materials Equipment SCI Illustrator Agent Skill

Convert photographs of materials-testing equipment into scientifically faithful, moderately simplified, isometric 3D schematics for SCI…

Context cost
844.8k tokensestimated from the bundle; more than a 200k window holds
Bundle
24 of 26 fileshanded out here; the rest is at its source
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Convert photographs of materials-testing equipment into scientifically faithful, moderately simplified, isometric 3D schematics for SCI papers. Use for hydraulic-structure materials, asphalt, concrete, mechanical testing, durability testing, and related laboratory apparatus; do not use for manufacturing drawings or dimensionally exact CAD reconstruction.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

designtesting
Filed under

Design & Media

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md4.9 kB · preview
--- name: materials-equipment-sci-illustrator ---
6# Materials Equipment SCI Illustrator
7
8Turn one or more equipment photographs into a publication-ready figure package. Preserve experimental truth first: component topology, specimen location, load path, sensors, and functional connections take priority over visual polish.
9
10## Required inputs
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12Require at least one equipment photograph. Recommend 2-4 views when occlusion or geometry matters. Also collect, when available:
13
14- equipment name or test purpose;
15- components that must remain visible;
16- load, displacement, fluid, heat, or measurement relationships to emphasize;
17- target journal, aspect ratio, and exact English labels.
18
19Do not block on optional inputs. Ask only when an unresolved detail could change the scientific meaning of the figure.
20
21## Workflow
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231. Inspect every input photograph. For a local image, load it with the image-viewing tool before using it as an edit target.
242. Read [references/workflow.md](references/workflow.md) and write equipment-fact-sheet.md. Separate visible facts, supported inferences, and unresolved items. Never silently promote an inference to a fact.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md625 words
Files24
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈100
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
844,725
on trigger
The instruction body and 23 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
4.2×
a 200k window
It does not fit in the window: loaded whole, it would need more room than the model has.
050k100k150k200k context window

844.8k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token — more than the whole window, so it cannot all be held at once: the model reads SKILL.md when the skill fires and the other files only as the instructions call for them. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

The download carries 24 of the 26 files in its source folder; the list here names 24 files, 3431.5 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 2 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to. The other 2 are not in the download, nor is 1 file of a type a skill download does not carry — listed after these, with why.

  • SKILL.md4.9 kB
  • CHANGELOG.md1.5 kB
  • CONTRIBUTING.md1.3 kB
  • LICENSE1.1 kB
  • PUBLISHING.md2.7 kB
  • README.md5.5 kB
  • requirements.txt0.1 kB
  • SECURITY.md0.9 kB
  • agents/openai.yaml0.4 kB
  • examples/README.md0.5 kB
  • references/annotation-spec.md5.0 kB
  • references/equipment-terminology.md4.3 kB
  • references/quality-control.md2.2 kB
  • references/visual-standard.md2.5 kB
  • references/workflow.md4.1 kB
  • scripts/compose_figure.py41.4 kB
  • tests/test_compose_figure.py10.8 kB
  • .github/workflows/test.yml0.6 kB
  • examples/bending-beam-rheometer/figure.svg1852.7 kB
  • examples/bending-beam-rheometer/figure-spec.json1.3 kB
  • examples/bending-beam-rheometer/verification.md3.8 kB
  • examples/four-column-loading-frame/figure.svg1479.1 kB
  • examples/four-column-loading-frame/figure-spec.json1.9 kB
  • examples/four-column-loading-frame/verification.md2.9 kB

Not in the download

Not carried is a type a skill download does not hold. Marked read: its SKILL.md or scripts name the file, so without it the skill works only in part. Take them from its source.

  • examples/bending-beam-rheometer/figure-white.pngread · not carried
  • examples/four-column-loading-frame/figure-white.pngread · not carried
  • .gitignorenot carried
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 2 scripts beside the text, so the download is 24 files — not the whole of its source: 3 files are left out, and the skill reads 2 of them. They are listed under the files, with why. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Materials Equipment SCI Illustrator · 844.8k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator ] || { mv .claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add jasper6732/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. Not in this download: 3 files of its source, 2 of them read by its SKILL.md or scripts (the full list, and why). Take them from its source.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

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Referencejasper6732/materials-equipment-sci-illustrator

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