ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaearon/woodshed. It costs 13 tokens per session (89 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A constrained approach to creating ASCII art, which is artwork made from text characters. It uses only the characters listed in a workspace file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating ASCII art under a specific character-set constraint.
Why use it?
It provides a fixed set of building blocks for making text-based artwork. The workflow is designed to produce one finished attempt without repeated refinement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when creating ASCII art under a specific character-set constraint.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaearon/woodshed/experiment
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 gaearon/woodshed --skill experiment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaearon/woodshed

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/gaearon/woodshed/experiment/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaearon/woodshed/experiment)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaearon/woodshed/experiment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gaearon/woodshed/experiment/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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaearon/woodshed/experiment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gaearon/woodshed/experiment.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 89 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 $0.00013 $0.00089
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00044
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00009

Measured 10d ago against content hash 07bb168d9311, 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 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 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.

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.

example/skills/ascii-art/experiment/SKILL.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

When creating ASCII art, use ONLY the characters listed in (workspace folder)/chars.txt. This constraint forces cleaner compositions. Read the file first, then work within its limits.

IMPORTANT: Do it once and be done. Your first attempt is fine. Do NOT iterate, refine, or "make it better." Save the file and move on.

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 · 9 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 07bb168d9311

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ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaearon/woodshed (70 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 89 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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