ascii-video

ascii-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from math-inc/OpenGauss. It costs 118 tokens per session (4,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python production workflow that turns videos, audio, images, or text into colored videos made from ASCII characters. ASCII art represents pictures with letters and symbols.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert footage into ASCII, make audio-reactive visualizers, create procedural animations, add timed text, or produce narrated quote videos.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to create different kinds of ASCII video, including visuals that react to music or timed lyrics.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to convert footage into ASCII, make audio-reactive visualizers, create procedural animations, add timed text, or produce narrated quote videos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/math-inc/opengauss/ascii-video
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 · 1,261 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-video
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 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,057 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00118 $0.04057
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.02028
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00811
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00406

Measured 11d ago against content hash 835cddfa05de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii-video scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

Never use `stderr=subprocess.PIPE` with long-running ffmpeg. Redirect to file:
skills/creative/ascii-video/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASCII Video Production Pipeline

Full production pipeline for rendering any content as colored ASCII character video.

Modes

Mode Input Output Read
Video-to-ASCII Video file ASCII recreation of source footage references/inputs.md § Video Sampling
Audio-reactive Audio file Generative visuals driven by audio features references/inputs.md § Audio Analysis
Generative None (or seed params) Procedural ASCII animation references/effects.md
Hybrid Video + audio ASCII video with audio-reactive overlays Both input refs
Lyrics/text Audio + text/SRT Timed text with visual effects references/inputs.md § Text/Lyrics
TTS narration Text quotes + TTS API Narrated testimonial/quote video with typed text references/inputs.md § TTS Integration

Stack

Single self-contained Python script per project. No GPU.

Layer Tool Purpose
Core Python 3.10+, NumPy Math, array ops, vectorized effects
Signal SciPy FFT, peak detection (audio modes only)
Imaging Pillow (PIL) Font rasterization, video frame decoding, image I/O
Video I/O ffmpeg (CLI) Decode input, encode output segments, mux audio, mix tracks
Parallel concurrent.futures / multiprocessing N workers for batch/clip rendering
TTS ElevenLabs API (or similar) Generate narration clips for quote/testimonial videos
Optional OpenCV Video frame sampling, edge detection, optical flow

Pipeline Architecture (v2)

Every mode follows the same 6-stage pipeline. See references/architecture.md for implementation details, references/scenes.md for scene protocol, and references/composition.md for multi-grid composition and tonemap.

┌─────────┐   ┌──────────┐   ┌───────────┐   ┌──────────┐   ┌─────────┐   ┌────────┐
│ 1.INPUT  │→│ 2.ANALYZE │→│ 3.SCENE_FN │→│ 4.TONEMAP │→│ 5.SHADE  │→│ 6.ENCODE│
│ load src │  │ features  │  │ → canvas   │  │ normalize │  │ post-fx  │  │ → video │
└─────────┘   └──────────┘   └───────────┘   └──────────┘   └─────────┘   └────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. 11d ago First seen · 257 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 835cddfa05de

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ascii-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository math-inc/OpenGauss (1,261 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 4,057 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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