A collection of tools for making ASCII art, meaning pictures or large text built from keyboard characters. It can create text banners, turn images into ASCII, and use free online services when needed.

Use it for project-name banners, terminal artwork, logos, splash screens, subtitles, and image-to-ASCII conversions.

It avoids manually arranging characters and gives you several ways to create banners and character-based images without requiring API keys.

ascii-art — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by braxtonROSE4

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 braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent --skill ascii-art

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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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.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,054 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00047	$0.03054
Opus 5	$0.00023	$0.01527
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00611
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00305

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8f80c9c842b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ascii-art scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install cowsay -y # Debian/Ubuntu

Makes network callslowCapability

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

### Usage (via terminal curl)

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to ascii-art — 17 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/creative/ascii-art/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASCII Art Skill

Multiple tools for different ASCII art needs. All tools are local CLI programs or free REST APIs — no API keys required.

Tool 1: Text Banners (pyfiglet — local)

Render text as large ASCII art banners. 571 built-in fonts.

Setup

pip install pyfiglet --break-system-packages -q

Usage

python3 -m pyfiglet "YOUR TEXT" -f slant
python3 -m pyfiglet "TEXT" -f doom -w 80    # Set width
python3 -m pyfiglet --list_fonts             # List all 571 fonts

Recommended fonts

Style	Font	Best for
Clean & modern	`slant`	Project names, headers
Bold & blocky	`doom`	Titles, logos
Big & readable	`big`	Banners
Classic banner	`banner3`	Wide displays
Compact	`small`	Subtitles
Cyberpunk	`cyberlarge`	Tech themes
3D effect	`3-d`	Splash screens
Gothic	`gothic`	Dramatic text

Tips

Preview 2-3 fonts and let the user pick their favorite
Short text (1-8 chars) works best with detailed fonts like doom or block
Long text works better with compact fonts like small or mini

Tool 2: Text Banners (asciified API — remote, no install)

Free REST API that converts text to ASCII art. 250+ FIGlet fonts. Returns plain text directly — no parsing needed. Use this when pyfiglet is not installed or as a quick alternative.

Usage (via terminal curl)

# Basic text banner (default font)
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello+World"

# With a specific font
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=Slant"
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=Doom"
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=Star+Wars"
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=3-D"
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=Banner3"

# List all available fonts (returns JSON array)
curl -s "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/fonts"

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 lines

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.

11d ago First seen · 322 lines · 47 tokens per session scan B 8f80c9c842b0

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ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,054 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 94% identical to ascii-art, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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