ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pedroiff0/awesome-skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (3,038 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of ascii-art, MIT.

A guide to making pictures and text with ASCII characters, including large text banners, terminal-style images, and image-to-ASCII conversions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create text banners, convert images into character art, or add terminal-style visuals to a project.
Why use it?
It explains which local tools or free services to use and how to choose readable styles for different kinds of ASCII art.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create text banners, convert images into character art, or add terminal-style visuals to a project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/ascii-art
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 pedroiff0/awesome-skills --skill ascii-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedroiff0/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 3,038 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 100% 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 $0.03038
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01519
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00608
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00304

Measured 12d ago against content hash c6064138b29b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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

100% identical to ascii-art — 9 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. 12d ago First seen · 322 lines · 20 tokens per session scan B c6064138b29b

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ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedroiff0/awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,038 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 100% identical to ascii-art, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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