ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from moltis-org/moltis. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,159 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of ascii-art, MIT.

A production guide for turning video, audio, images, or generated material into coloured ASCII-character videos. The results can be MP4 files, GIFs, or sequences of images, including music-reactive visualizers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create ASCII music visualizers, animated character videos, hybrid audio-reactive pieces, generative animations, or text and lyric videos.
Why use it?
It provides a structured approach for making ASCII animation with a clear visual concept instead of simply applying a generic conversion effect. It covers both the visual design and the output pipeline.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Good fit Use it to create ASCII music visualizers, animated character videos, hybrid audio-reactive pieces, generative animations, or text and lyric videos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moltis-org/moltis/ascii-art
About the project

Moltis is a persistent personal agent server written in Rust that runs on hardware controlled by its user. It provides an AI agent with sandboxed command execution, model-provider connections, memory, voice, scheduling, messaging integrations, browser automation, and MCP tools. Its catalogue add-ons extend the agent’s workflows and available tools.

moltis-org/moltis · 2,851 stars · on GitHub · moltis.org

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 3,159 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 91% 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 $0.03159
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01580
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00316

Measured 11d ago against content hash 806e16e2fa6d, 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 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.

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

91% identical to ascii-art — 45 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.

crates/skills/src/assets/creative/ascii-art/SKILL.md · 336 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 336 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 · 336 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 · 336 lines · 47 tokens per session scan B 806e16e2fa6d

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ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository moltis-org/moltis (2,851 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,159 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 91% identical to ascii-art, differing in 45 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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