@bicharts/chart-mcp 0.6.85 → 0.6.87

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bicharts/chart-mcp",
-  "version": "0.6.85",
+  "version": "0.6.87",
   "description": "MCP (Model Context Protocol) stdio server for BIC AI charts: profile a dataset locally, then generate chart code that has passed the BIC backend's render gates. Works with any MCP-capable client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot Studio). An account pays to author charts; the code it writes is yours and runs with no licence.",
   "keywords": [
     "mcp",
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
   },
   "// dependencies": "NONE, deliberately. dist/ bundles every module the server uses, so a runtime dependency installs nothing it needs - it only makes npx fetch that package (and its tree) before the first start. Everything the bundle carries is a devDependency; scripts/verify-package.mjs fails the release if a dependency appears or a shipped file imports anything but Node's built-ins.",
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@bicharts/chart-host": "^0.6.85",
-    "@bicharts/shape-core": "^0.6.85",
+    "@bicharts/chart-host": "^0.6.87",
+    "@bicharts/shape-core": "^0.6.87",
     "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.0.0",
     "@types/node": "^20.0.0",
     "@types/papaparse": "^5.3.14",

package/skills/bic-charts/CHART-SHAPES.md

@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ on the same picture, not a looser one.
 | Sankey alluvial flow | 2 categorical, 1 continuous | <=10 categories, <=80 edges, needs 420x280 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly | Requires at least two categorical variables |
 | Scatter plot | 2 continuous | needs 460x340 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn | Requires two continuous variables |
 | Seasonal decomposition | 1 continuous, 24+ time points | needs 320x360 px | Matplotlib, Plotly, Statsmodels | Requires a datetime series with one continuous variable and at least two full seasonal cycles |
+| Selection explainer | 2 continuous | needs 560x360 px | D3 | Two measures over thirty or more rows that also carry other fields - region, plan, tenure, size - when the question is 'what do these points have in common?' |
 | Slope chart | 1 categorical, 1 continuous, 2+ time points | <=40 categories, needs 460x340 px | D3, PLOTLY | Best for two-period change across many categories: YoY by region/segment, before/after comparisons, ranking shifts between two snapshots |
 | Spiral plot | 1 continuous, 12+ time points | needs 320x320 px | D3, PLOTLY | Best for long, finely-grained, strongly periodic series (years of daily data) where the cyclic pattern is the story |
 | Stacked area chart | 1 categorical, 1 continuous | needs 460x340 px | D3, Matplotlib, Plotly | Requires ordered categories with multiple continuous series |

package/skills/bic-charts/SKILL.md

@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ correction:
 Asking for these in `prompt` prose instead is the most expensive mistake available here: it
 routinely costs two or three extra generations, and each one is minutes of wall-clock.
 
-Other parameters worth knowing: `chart_type` (a preference, honored unless the data shape
-disqualifies it), `renderer` (a JavaScript or TypeScript project gets D3 without asking, because D3 is what
+Other parameters worth knowing: `chart_type` (the type the person named, honored unless the data shape
+disqualifies it; leave it unset when they only asked for a chart, and the engine chooses from what fits), `renderer` (a JavaScript or TypeScript project gets D3 without asking, because D3 is what
 `@bicharts/chart-host` draws), `width`/`height`, and
 `reasoning_mode: "1P"` when you want the cheapest, fastest pass.
 
@@ -539,7 +539,9 @@ are. The CLI returns at most 1,000 rows; the tool says so when it cut a result,
 chart's grain.
 
 **4. Ask before choosing, then choose what answers the question.** `list_eligible_charts` on that
-data. The catalogue goes past the template's own charts, and these are the ones people describe
+data. Pass `chart_type` to `generate_chart` only for a type the person named; when they only asked for a chart, leave it
+unset and the engine chooses from what fits. A type the person described without naming it counts as named once you have
+matched it to the catalogue. The catalogue goes past the template's own charts, and these are the ones people describe
 without naming:
 
 | the request sounds like | ask for |