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title: "loam-research"
description: "Portable technical writing and data-visualization skills for coding agents"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/loam-research
last-updated: 2026-10-25
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# loam-research
Portable technical writing and data-visualization skills for coding agents
- Slug: loam-research
- Publisher: viv shaw
- Repository: https://github.com/vivshaw/loam-research
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 2 (prose-writing-for-a-technical-audience, visualizing-data)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-06
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-06
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/loam-research
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What loam-research does, in the publisher's words

Loam Research is an expansion pack for Loam. It combines guidance for clear technical prose with a complete data-visualization skill, including chart selection, visual design, accessibility, interaction, typography, a house palette, and exportable reference assets.

Loam Research installs independently. Pair it with Loam for broader codebase and internet-research workflows.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vivshaw/loam-research/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- prose-writing-for-a-technical-audience: Use when writing documentation, guides, API references, or technical content for developers.
- visualizing-data: Use when producing any chart, graph, plot, dashboard, or data visualization in any medium, HTML/SVG, React, a plotting library (matplotlib, plotly, d3, Vega, Recharts), or a rendered image. Read before writing the first line of chart code, picking chart colours, or laying out a dashboard. Covers ch…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.