What is ascii-dependency-graph?

A tool for drawing a dependency graph as plain-text boxes and lines. A dependency graph shows which software modules or libraries rely on one another.

Use it to document module relationships, library dependencies, or other connected components in Markdown documentation.

It turns structured dependency data into a diagram that can be read in a terminal or stored in Markdown without image files.

ascii-dependency-graph — Skill for Claude Code by rohingosling

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 rohingosling/claude-skills --skill ascii-dependency-graph

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohingosling/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install g-render-ascii-dependency-graph, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rohingosling/claude-skills/ascii-dependency-graph/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rohingosling/claude-skills/ascii-dependency-graph)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rohingosling/claude-skills/ascii-dependency-graph"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rohingosling/claude-skills/ascii-dependency-graph/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rohingosling/claude-skills/ascii-dependency-graph"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rohingosling/claude-skills/ascii-dependency-graph.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 385 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00016	$0.00385
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00154
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00077
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00038

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 03f7c1b5db56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii-dependency-graph 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/render_ascii_dependency_graph.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/g-render-ascii-dependency-graph/skills/ascii-dependency-graph/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Render an ASCII dependency graph using the Python script at ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/render_ascii_dependency_graph.py.

Instructions

Construct a JSON object describing the dependency tree. Each node has:
- "name": the module/dependency name (required)
- "right": a single node connected horizontally to the right (optional)
- "bottom": an array of child nodes connected vertically below (optional)
- Use {"ellipsis": true} in a bottom array to insert a · · · continuation marker.
Write the JSON to a temporary file in the current project's working directory (e.g. dep_graph.json).

Run (use python3 on macOS/Linux, python on Windows):

python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/render_ascii_dependency_graph.py" --file dep_graph.json

Copy the output into the target markdown file inside a fenced code block.
Delete the temporary JSON file.

Example JSON

{
    "name": "App",
    "right": {
        "name": "LibA",
        "right": { "name": "LibC" }
    },
    "bottom": [
        { "name": "LibB" },
        {
            "name": "LibD",
            "right": { "name": "LibC" }
        }
    ]
}

Box width rule

Each box has odd character width = RoundUpToNearestOdd( len(name) + 4 ). This ensures the ┬ connector exits exactly from the centre of the bottom border.

User argument

$ARGUMENTS

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

scripts/render_ascii_dependency_graph.py 25 KB runs code

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.

2mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 03f7c1b5db56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-dependency-graph is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohingosling/claude-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 385 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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