ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from math-inc/OpenGauss. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,052 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of ascii-art, MIT.

A command-line toolkit for turning text and images into ASCII art: pictures made from keyboard characters. It uses local programs and free web services, with no API keys required.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create terminal headers, project banners, logos, cowsay-style messages, boxed notices, and ASCII versions of images.
Why use it?
It gives you several ways to create banners, decorative text, boxed messages, character drawings, and text versions of images without making the artwork by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create terminal headers, project banners, logos, cowsay-style messages, boxed notices, and ASCII versions of images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/math-inc/opengauss/ascii-art
About the project

OpenGauss is a project-scoped Lean workflow orchestrator that gives coding agents a command-line interface for managing formal proof and formalization tasks. It is used with Lean projects to coordinate agents, tooling, backend sessions, and workflows supplied by lean4-skills. The catalogue add-ons operate these Gauss-native workflows.

math-inc/OpenGauss · 1,260 stars · on GitHub

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 math-inc/OpenGauss --skill ascii-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/math-inc/OpenGauss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 3,052 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 97% 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 $0.00047 $0.03052
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01526
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00610
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00305

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3532d5c6d7cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 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.

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

97% 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 322 lines · 47 tokens per session scan B 3532d5c6d7cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository math-inc/OpenGauss (1,260 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,052 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 97% identical to ascii-art, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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