ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mateaix/mateclaw. It costs 20 tokens per session (3,006 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of ascii-art, Apache-2.0.

A collection of tools for making pictures and text from characters, called ASCII art. It includes large text banners, decorative boxes, cowsay-style output, and image-to-ASCII conversion using local programs or free services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating terminal banners, project headers, text logos, decorative command-line output, and character-based versions of images.
Why use it?
It gives developers a quick way to add text-based visuals where regular images are inconvenient, such as terminals, logs, README files, and scripts. Several fonts and output styles are available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Creating terminal banners, project headers, text logos, decorative command-line output, and character-based versions of images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mateaix/mateclaw/ascii-art
About the project

MateClaw is a pluggable agent runtime that coordinates AI agents, tools, conversations, memory, and workflows. It is designed for personal and multi-user AI assistants, including agents used through chat platforms. Catalogue add-ons provide skills for extending its agent workflows.

mateaix/mateclaw · 1,092 stars · on GitHub · claw.mate.vip

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 mateaix/mateclaw --skill ascii-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mateaix/mateclaw

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,006 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 98% 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.03006
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01503
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00601
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00301

Measured 9d ago against content hash fed4b8a06c56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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

98% identical to ascii-art — 34 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.

mateclaw-server/src/main/resources/skills/ascii-art/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 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 · 325 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 325 lines · 20 tokens per session scan B fed4b8a06c56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository mateaix/mateclaw (1,092 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,006 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 98% identical to ascii-art, differing in 34 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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