AsciiCreativeCoding: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/novice-refactor/SKILL.md

novice-refactor is a skill for Claude Code from prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding. It costs 218 tokens per session (5,534 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guided procedure for restructuring a validated C source file so a complete beginner can learn the algorithm from it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when refactoring a phase-2 C file for a first-time reader and enter the NOVICEREFACTOR, COMPLETELITERATE, LITERATE, or slash command.
Why use it?
It adapts the explanation and code organization for readers with no programming-domain background.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on AsciiCreativeCoding itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything AsciiCreativeCoding configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding/main/.claude/skills/novice-refactor/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,534 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00218 $0.05534
Opus 5.5 $0.00087 $0.02214
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00044 $0.01107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00553

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1a383316a3a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novice-refactor scanned grade A with 0 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 2mo 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/novice-refactor/SKILL.md · 429 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 429 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A 1a383316a3a7

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novice-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding (99 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 5,534 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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