create-mascot-pack

create-mascot-pack is a skill for Claude Code from TeXmeijin/claude-code-mascot-statusline. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,953 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive guide for creating or changing pixel-art mascot packs for a coding assistant’s status line. It collects the character design, grid size, rendering style, colors, pack name, and installation location.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new mascot, modify an existing one, fix half-block rendering issues, or add mascot states.
Why use it?
It turns mascot design and installation choices into a defined workflow instead of requiring the pack structure to be worked out manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node dist/cli/validate-pack.js <pack-dir>.

Part of the claude-code-mascot-statusline plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 11 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a new mascot, modify an existing one, fix half-block rendering issues, or add mascot states.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TeXmeijin/claude-code-mascot-statusline
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/texmeijin/claude-code-mascot-statusline/create-mascot-pack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code-mascot-statusline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 11 hooks.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,953 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00127 $0.01953
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00977
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00195

Measured 11d ago against content hash 61c9219c3424, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-mascot-pack 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.

.claude/skills/create-mascot-pack/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Mascot Pack

Interactive assistant for creating and modifying pixel-art mascot packs for the claude-code-mascot-statusline plugin.

Workflow Decision

Determine the task type:

Creating a new pack? → Follow "New Pack Workflow" below Modifying an existing pack? → Follow "Existing Pack Workflow" below

New Pack Workflow

Phase 1: Requirements

Ask the user:

  1. Character concept (animal, robot, invader, object, etc.)
  2. Grid size — recommend 16x16 for half-block, 8x8 for simpler characters
  3. Render mode — half-block (recommended for faces/characters) or bg-space (simpler)
  4. Pack name (lowercase, hyphens, e.g. space-invader)
  5. Install location:
    • Project-local: <project>/.claude/mascot-packs/<name>/
    • User-global: ~/.claude/plugins/claude-code-mascot-statusline/packs/<name>/

Phase 2: Palette Design

Design the color palette. Rules:

  • Index 0 = null (transparent) — always required
  • Index 1 = outline / dark color — defines the silhouette
  • Index 2 = main body color — this is the heat target (shifts toward #ff4444 when context window usage reaches 60-85%). Choose a warm or neutral color that looks good interpolating toward red.
  • Index 3+ = accent colors (eyes, mouth, effects, highlights)
  • Recommend 5-10 colors total

Read references/pixel-buddy-anatomy.md for palette reference (10-color example).

Phase 3: Idle Sprite Design

The idle frame is the baseline for all other states. Get this right first.

Design approach:

  1. Sketch the silhouette first — all non-zero cells form the shape
  2. Place outline (index 1) at edges for clear contour
  3. Fill body with index 2
  4. Add face features: eyes, mouth, ears, etc.
  5. Ensure left-right symmetry unless intentionally asymmetric

Critical: Half-block awareness (see "Half-Block Rendering" section below).

Write the frame as a 2D integer array in pack.yaml (preferred) or pack.json.

Phase 4: Validate and Preview

After creating the idle frame, immediately validate and preview:

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 211 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 61c9219c3424

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create-mascot-pack is a skill published in the GitHub repository TeXmeijin/claude-code-mascot-statusline (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,953 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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