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Agent skill that generates rich HTML pages or slide decks for diagrams, diff reviews, plan audits, data tables, and project recaps. Produces visual artifacts from structured data.
nicobailon/visual-explainer
- **Archetype**: utility-with-skill
- **Stars**: 7,484
- **Last pushed**: 2026-03-29
- **License**: MIT
- **Discovered**: 2026-04-12
- **Source**: gh-search (keyword: "agent skill")
- **Skills found**: 1 (SKILL.md content not retrievable at scan time)
Summary
Agent skill that generates rich HTML pages or slide decks for diagrams, diff reviews, plan audits, data tables, and project recaps. Produces visual artifacts from structured data.
Assessment
MEDIUM VALUE. The visualization generation procedure is a useful cross-domain capability. The specific output types (diff reviews, plan audits, project recaps) align well with babysitter's orchestration needs -- particularly plan audits and project recap visualization.
Extraction Priority
MEDIUM -- Plan audit visualization and project recap generation are useful for babysitter observability and retrospection workflows.
Processes
1. **visual-artifact-generation** -- Transform structured data into rich HTML visualization (diagrams, tables, slides) 2. **plan-audit-visualization** -- Generate visual plan audit reports 3. **diff-review-presentation** -- Create visual diff review artifacts
Plugin Ideas
- **visual-reports plugin**: Babysitter plugin that generates HTML reports from run data, journal events, and retrospection results
Library Mapping
| Extractable Process | Library Status | Action | Existing Path | Target Placement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Artifact Generation | NEW | Transform structured data into rich HTML visualizations (diagrams, tables, slides) | - | specializations/shared/visual-artifact-generation.js |
| Plan Audit Visualization | NEW | Generate visual plan audit reports with structured presentation | - | specializations/shared/plan-audit-visualization.js |
| Diff Review Presentation | NEW | Create visual diff review artifacts with HTML-based presentation | - | specializations/shared/diff-review-presentation.js |
| HTML-as-Artifact Pattern | NEW | Generate self-contained HTML pages as deliverable artifacts with multi-format support | - | specializations/shared/html-as-artifact-pattern.js |
Plugin Marketplace Mapping
| Plugin Idea | Marketplace Status | Action | Existing Plugin | Target Placement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Reports Generator | NEW | HTML report generation from run data, journal events, and retrospection results | - | plugins/a5c/marketplace/plugins/visual-reports-generator/ |
Implicit Procedural Knowledge
- HTML-as-artifact pattern: generating self-contained HTML pages as deliverables
- Multi-format output (page vs slide deck) from same structured input