{"version":"2.1.251","anchor":"chart-skill-prefers-live-connector-charts-over-images","canonical_anchor":"chart-skill-prefers-live-connector-charts-over-images","heading":"Chart skill prefers live connector charts over images","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251\/e\/chart-skill-prefers-live-connector-charts-over-images","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251","markdown":"### Chart skill prefers live connector charts over images\n\nCharts headed for a document connector send raw data rows instead of a rendered image.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen the destination is a first-party document connector that renders live charts, the data-visualization skill now tells Claude to hand over the underlying data rows, inline or as an uploaded data file the chart cites, instead of a rendered PNG or SVG.\n\n**Details**\n\n- The stated reason is that an image loses hover, data inspection and per-value comments.\n- Skill text, always in effect when the skill runs.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`hand it the rows (inline, or as an uploaded data file the chart cites) rather than a rendered PNG\/SVG \u2014 a picture of a chart loses hover, data inspection and per-value comments`\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5"}