exsinger-hub/Sivia

Sivia is a scientific-figure plugin for Codex and Claude Code, built for method illustrations in papers, lab meetings and thesis defenses. Give it a paper: Sivia maps the method and contribution, draws on an extensible external knowledge base, and generates an overview. After you approve the design and request the PowerPoint, it delivers an editable PPTX for PowerPoint or WPS.

Keep editing the result: change labels, move modules, adjust arrows and replace experiment images. Adapt the same method figure to a paper layout or a presentation.

Delivery: Paper → Overview preview → Approval and PowerPoint request → Editable PPTX + preview.

Sivia also reconstructs existing scientific figures and supports editable draw.io output. Its RSI research direction explores how drawing skills and the methods used to improve them can evolve over time.

Connect your drawing workflow to an extensible external knowledge base. Sivia ships with curated scientific-figure examples and can also use reference figures, lab styles and approved work you supply. These references guide composition, hierarchy, spatial relationships and visual expression; the current paper determines the scientific content.

The library contains 10 approved cases across the five areas below, alongside 3 separately marked review drafts. The gallery shows overview images, with production records and source notes available for each case.

Browse the classified knowledge base · Extend the case library

Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details	VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details
MegaSaM: Accurate, Fast, and Robust Structure and Motion from Casual Dynamic Videos User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details	D4RT Review draft · not admitted Full-size image · Production record · Case details

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details

AutoTool Review draft · not admitted Full-size image · Production record · Case details

DiffDock: Diffusion Steps, Twists, and Turns for Molecular Docking User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details

SigmaDock Review draft · not admitted Full-size image · Production record · Case details

Learning View-invariant World Models for Visual Robotic Manipulation User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details	RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details
Reconstructing People, Places, and Cameras User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details

Efficient Motion-Aware Video MLLM User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details

Dense-SfM: Structure from Motion with Dense Consistent Matching User-selected / active Full-size image · Production record · Case details

After installation, attach your paper in Codex or Claude Code and describe the figure you need.

Use Sivia to create a scientific overview of this paper.
Highlight its contribution, key modules, inputs and outputs in a compact composition for the paper.

Sivia handles paper understanding, reference selection, composition and image generation. Review the actual image and decide what to change.

I approve this overview. Use Sivia to make an editable PPTX with the same layout and content.
Use native objects for text, modules and arrows, and keep artwork and experiment images separate.

Receive PPTX + preview. Open it in PowerPoint or WPS to adjust wording, module positions and assets. If you already have an approved scientific figure, start here.

Move the output module from the right to the bottom, reroute its arrows and enlarge the labels.
Preserve the other regions, content and colors. Update the editable PowerPoint and preview.

Bring your own knowledge base: attach reference figures or provide a case directory, then ask Sivia to use their composition and palette while designing around the current paper's method.

Recursive Self-Improvement · Research direction

A revision can contribute to the next drawing task. Sivia currently uses a design, drawing, review and correction workflow, and retains approved work, reference assets and useful feedback as local cases that can be reused in later tasks.

The RSI direction studies both drawing skills and the methods that update those skills: propose rules from revision feedback, evaluate them on new tasks, then explore recursive improvement of the updating strategy itself. The current source-available release provides editable figure production and case accumulation; recursive updater development is a research direction.

Run in a terminal, then start a new task:

codex plugin marketplace add exsinger-hub/Sivia --ref main
codex plugin add sivia@sivia

Run inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add exsinger-hub/Sivia
/plugin install sivia@sivia

Full workflow · Changelog · Contribute to the knowledge base

Run checks from the repository root. The Python tests need the packages in requirements.txt; install them in a virtual environment first:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
node scripts/sync-plugin-metadata.mjs --check
node --test tests/*.test.mjs
python -m unittest discover -s tests -p "test_*.py"

Non-commercial use is permitted. Commercial use requires prior written authorization.

Sivia-authored contributions are available under the Sivia Non-Commercial License 1.0. This includes personal learning, teaching and non-commercial academic research. Business use, paid services and commercial product integration require a commercial license request.

Upstream components retain their MIT license; earlier MIT releases keep their original terms. See third-party and historical notices.

Thanks to Scientific Illustrator, on which Sivia is built.