ascii-art

ascii-art is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from taracodlabs/aiden. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A tool for generating text banners and decorative box art made from ordinary keyboard characters. It uses utilities such as pyfiglet, cowsay, and boxes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create command-line headers, ASCII banners, speech-style output, and boxed text.
Why use it?
It provides a quick way to add readable terminal-style decoration without making image files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps create command-line headers, ASCII banners, speech-style output, and boxed text.

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

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.

agentmods badge for ascii-art

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/taracodlabs/aiden/ascii-art/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/taracodlabs/aiden/ascii-art)
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-art

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,171 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00019 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00117

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6d139cb46ede, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii-art 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 11d 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.

skills/ascii-art/SKILL.md · 143 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 143 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 6d139cb46ede

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ascii-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository taracodlabs/aiden (819 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,171 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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