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.
npx skills add diillson/chatcli --skill ascii-artgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/diillson/chatcliWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/diillson/chatcli/ascii-art)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/diillson/chatcli/ascii-art"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/diillson/chatcli/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/diillson/chatcli/ascii-art"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/diillson/chatcli/ascii-art.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00072 | $0.00436 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00029 | $0.00174 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00087 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00044 |
Grade A, and why
ascii-art 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
ASCII / Terminal Art
Local, keyless terminal art. Detect tools first:
command -v figlet toilet lolcat chafa jp2a 2>/dev/null (Unix) / Get-Command figlet, chafa (Windows).
Install: brew install figlet lolcat chafa jp2a / apt install figlet toilet lolcat chafa jp2a.
Big text banners
figlet "Deploy OK"
figlet -f slant "ChatCLI" # other fonts: big, banner, standard
toilet -f mono12 -F metal "BUILD" # toilet adds colors/filters
List figlet fonts: figlet -I2 shows the font directory; showfigfonts previews them.
Colorize
figlet "Done" | lolcat # rainbow gradient
Image → ASCII / terminal preview
chafa image.png # high-fidelity terminal graphics (truecolor/sixel)
chafa --size 60x30 image.png
jp2a --colors image.jpg # classic ASCII conversion
Rules
- Banners are great for CLI/agent output; in messaging gateways (Telegram/WhatsApp), monospaced ASCII often breaks on phones — prefer plain text there, or send a rendered image.
- Keep banners short; wide figlet output wraps badly in narrow terminals.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 49791c8eedfe
ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository diillson/chatcli (93 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 436 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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