the-scribble-thing

the-scribble-thing is a skill for Codex from Boring-Stuff-Club/the-scribble-thing-skill. It costs 58 tokens per session (604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service that turns a user-provided PNG or JPEG line drawing into an MP4 animation showing the picture being drawn. It can optionally follow a specified drawing order and show a hand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for animated illustrations, diagrams, storyboards, or product concepts when you have a suitable line-art image.
Why use it?
It removes the need to animate the drawing process manually.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for animated illustrations, diagrams, storyboards, or product concepts when you have a suitable line-art image.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boring-stuff-club/the-scribble-thing-skill/the-scribble-thing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Boring-Stuff-Club/the-scribble-thing-skill --skill the-scribble-thing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Boring-Stuff-Club/the-scribble-thing-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00058 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00060

Measured 11d ago against content hash 96ff55aa51a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-scribble-thing scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 11d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/the-scribble-thing/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Scribble Thing

Use the connected The Scribble Thing MCP server when it is available. Its public endpoint is https://scribble.boringstuff.club/mcp and the REST fallback guide is https://scribble.boringstuff.club/docs/agent-api.

Before creating

  • Require one PNG or JPEG image. Line art and simple illustrations work best.
  • Ask only for missing choices: drawing order is optional, hand display defaults to off, and speed defaults to normal.
  • Call get_scribble_service_info for current limits, retention, terms, and pricing. Do not rely on values remembered from an earlier run.
  • Before the first creation, tell the user that uploaded and generated files are retained for up to the reported retention period. Obtain explicit confirmation that the user accepts the current terms and has the rights needed to use the artwork. Do not infer acceptance.

Create and monitor

  1. Call create_scribe_animation with the image as raw base64, not a data URL. Supply a fresh non-personal idempotency key. Reuse that key only when retrying the identical request.
  2. Preserve the returned animation ID and capability token as secrets. Never put them in ordinary chat text, logs, analytics, filenames, or unrelated tools.
  3. Poll get_scribe_animation every 3-5 seconds until it reports completed or failed. Do not hold a long-running request open.
  4. On completion, give the user the watermarked preview and private management link. State that the free preview contains a watermark.
  5. If the user wants the clean video, prefer the management link so the user can purchase or enter a code privately. Call redeem_scribe_unlock_code only when the user explicitly supplies a code and asks the agent to redeem it.
  6. Use get_scribe_animation_download for a short-lived download URL. Do not place video bytes into the model context.

If the MCP host cannot send the attached image as base64, follow the REST guide's multipart upload workflow instead of fetching an arbitrary remote image URL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 52 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 96ff55aa51a8

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the-scribble-thing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boring-Stuff-Club/the-scribble-thing-skill (16 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 604 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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