ascii-video

ascii-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from raphaelmansuy/edgecrab. It costs 118 tokens per session (3,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool for turning videos, audio, images, and generated content into videos made from colored text characters, known as ASCII art. It can produce MP4 files, GIFs, or image sequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert media into ASCII videos, create animations that respond to music, combine video with audio effects, or display lyrics as moving text.
Why use it?
It removes the need to build the conversion and animation process yourself when creating text-based video or music-reactive visuals.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to convert media into ASCII videos, create animations that respond to music, combine video with audio effects, or display lyrics as moving text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raphaelmansuy/edgecrab/ascii-video
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 raphaelmansuy/edgecrab --skill ascii-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raphaelmansuy/edgecrab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/raphaelmansuy/edgecrab/ascii-video/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/raphaelmansuy/edgecrab/ascii-video)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ascii-video

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/raphaelmansuy/edgecrab/ascii-video"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/raphaelmansuy/edgecrab/ascii-video.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,043 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.
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 $0.00118 $0.03043
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01522
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00609
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00304

Measured 10d ago against content hash 06391b33d48a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

Never `stderr=subprocess.PIPE` with long-running ffmpeg — buffer fills at 64KB and deadlocks. Redirect to file. See `references/troubleshooting.md`.
skills/creative/ascii-video/SKILL.md · 206 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 206 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 06391b33d48a

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ascii-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository raphaelmansuy/edgecrab (85 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 3,043 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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