ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Abruptive/Ankh.md. It costs 27 tokens per session (242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating text-based pictures and banners with tools such as pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, and an online ASCII-art service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make stylized text, speaking or thinking animal banners, bordered text, and other ASCII-art displays.
Why use it?
It gives ready-to-use commands for producing decorative terminal output without needing an API key.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to make stylized text, speaking or thinking animal banners, bordered text, and other ASCII-art displays.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abruptive/Ankh.md --skill ascii-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abruptive/Ankh.md

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ascii-art

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ascii-art

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/ascii-art.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 242 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00242
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 10d ago against content hash 41113d418cfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii-art scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello+World"
examples/ascii-designer/.agent/skills/creative/ascii-art/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

ASCII Art Skill

Text Banners (pyfiglet)

pip install pyfiglet
python3 -m pyfiglet "YOUR TEXT" -f slant
python3 -m pyfiglet --list_fonts

Asciified API (no install)

curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello+World"
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=Doom"

Cowsay

cowsay "Hello World"
cowsay -f tux "Linux rules"
cowthink "Hmm..."

Boxes (borders)

echo "Hello" | boxes -d stone
echo "Hello" | boxes -d cat
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 40 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 41113d418cfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abruptive/Ankh.md (74 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 242 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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