ascii-video

ascii-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ariffazil/AAA. It costs 17 tokens per session (3,462 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A tool for turning video or audio into coloured ASCII animation, where images are represented by text characters, and saving the result as an MP4 or GIF.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert video or audio into coloured ASCII MP4 or GIF files.
Why use it?
It provides a way to present moving images using text characters instead of ordinary video frames.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to convert video or audio into coloured ASCII MP4 or GIF files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video
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 ariffazil/AAA --skill ascii-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariffazil/AAA

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-video

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video/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-video

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariffazil/aaa/ascii-video.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,462 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 unknown 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 $0.00017 $0.03462
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01731
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00692
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00346

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1d4f84e0eacc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii-video 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 8d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

Never `stderr=subprocess.PIPE` with long-running ffmpeg — buffer fills at 64KB and deadlocks. Redirect to file. See `references/troubleshooting.md`.
.hermes-archived-2026-08-15/skills/creative/ascii-video/SKILL.md · 242 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 242 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 1d4f84e0eacc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariffazil/AAA (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,462 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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