Visualization Skill — Ingest → Explore → Brainstorm → Plan → Execute → Analyze

This skill helps you create research-quality visualizations through a six-phase workflow. The philosophy: let the data do the talking before you decide what to say, internalize what you want to show and why before touching any production code, and validate what the figure actually says against what you intended.

Modes:

• /viz ingest — Understand what you have: schema, shape, quality (structural)
• /viz explore — Look at the data from multiple angles with disposable plots (intuitive)
• /viz brainstorm — Think through what you are trying to visualize (philosophical)
• /viz plan — Decide how to realize it: plot type, layout, data source (mechanistic)
• /viz execute — Generate and run the code (operational)
• /viz analyze — Reflect on the figure and validate against your hypothesis (critical)

Not every figure requires all six modes. The early modes (Ingest, Explore, Brainstorm) are designed to build the intuition that experienced researchers already have. If you already know your data and have a clear visualization intent, you can skip straight to /viz plan — optionally writing your own braindump.md to capture your intent, which Plan and Execute will pick up automatically.