ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from saajunaid/caddis-plugin. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,383 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for creating text-based ASCII art, including banners, borders, converted images, and custom designs. ASCII art uses ordinary text characters to form pictures or decorative shapes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for command-line banners, borders, image-to-text conversions, and custom text artwork.
Why use it?
It provides several ways to make terminal-friendly visuals without relying on image files.

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 for command-line banners, borders, image-to-text conversions, and custom text artwork.

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

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
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,383 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 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01383
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00553
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00138

Measured 19d ago against content hash 1d111c31335c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 19d 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.

# Install: sudo apt install toilet

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=slant"
.github/skills/media/ascii-art/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASCII Art

A decision-routing framework for text-based ASCII art. Each request type maps to a different tool — this skill picks the right one.

Tool Decision Tree

What do you need?
├── Large text banner from a string
│   ├── Need 500+ font choices, no install → asciified API (remote)
│   ├── Local Python available → pyfiglet (local, 571 fonts)
│   └── Want color/ANSI effects → TOIlet (Linux/WSL only)
│
├── Speech bubble or fun ASCII character
│   └── cowsay (50+ characters)
│
├── Decorative border around text block
│   └── boxes (70+ border styles)
│
├── Convert an image to ASCII
│   ├── Supports color, braille, URLs → ascii-image-converter
│   └── Lightweight JPEG only → jp2a
│
├── Browse pre-made art by subject
│   └── ascii.co.uk (searchable collection)
│
├── QR code, weather art, GitHub Octocat
│   └── Fun APIs: qrenco.de, wttr.in, github.com/octocat
│
└── Custom / conceptual art (not covered above)
    └── LLM-generated using Unicode palette (see below)

Tool Reference

pyfiglet (local — Python)

pip install pyfiglet
python -c "import pyfiglet; print(pyfiglet.figlet_format('Hello', font='slant'))"
# List available fonts:
python -c "import pyfiglet; print('\n'.join(pyfiglet.FigletFont.getFonts()[:20]))"

571 built-in fonts. Good defaults: slant, banner3, big, doom, isometric1, roman.

asciified API (remote — no install)

curl "https://asciified.thelicato.io/api/v2/ascii?text=Hello&font=slant"

250+ FIGlet fonts, free REST endpoint, works anywhere curl is available.

TOIlet (local — Linux/WSL only)

# Install: sudo apt install toilet
toilet -f mono9 -F border "Hello"
toilet -f future --gay "Hello"    # rainbow ANSI
toilet --list                     # show available fonts

Windows note: Requires WSL. Not available in native PowerShell/CMD.

cowsay (local)

# Install: brew install cowsay / sudo apt install cowsay
cowsay "Hello, World"
cowsay -f dragon "Rawr"
cowsay -l               # list 50+ characters
cowsay -e "@@" -T "U"   # custom eyes and tongue

Characters include: cow, dragon, tux, ghostbusters, stegosaurus, vader, and 45+ more.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 19d ago Changed · -19 tokens per session 1d111c31335c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 145 lines · 54 tokens per session scan B 9f880ad30416

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository saajunaid/caddis-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,383 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.