Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add veigap/talksmith/plugin install talksmithWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/veigap/talksmith/ascii-to-svg)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/veigap/talksmith/ascii-to-svg"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/veigap/talksmith/ascii-to-svg/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/veigap/talksmith/ascii-to-svg"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/veigap/talksmith/ascii-to-svg.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00072 | $0.06176 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.03088 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.01235 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00618 |
Grade A, and why
talksmith:ascii-to-svg 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
talksmith:ascii-to-svg — Render one ASCII block to one SVG
This skill renders a single ASCII diagram to a single SVG file. It is invoked once per fenced ASCII block by the diagram-illustrator role during Step 6 (Polish). Its scope is intentionally narrow:
Caller (diagram-illustrator role) does |
This skill does | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Invoke talksmith:polish-ascii → scan once; the scan output enumerates every fenced ASCII block and carries each block's pre-extracted slide context (slide_title, slide_content_prose, speaker_notes, section_title, section_goal, talk_thesis, optional presentation_language) |
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| 2 | Pick the output filename <slide-id>-<n>-<short-description>.svg (kebab-case slug — see ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agents/diagram-illustrator.md → Output filename convention) |
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| 3 | Pass through the scan's context bundle + sidecar path + (optional) style_directives |
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| 4 | — | Render the SVG for that one block |
| 5 | Aggregate results, report rendered/unchanged/failed counts | — |
The agent is the coordinator; this skill is the worker. One invocation = one SVG file. The caller never re-parses final.md — every context field comes from the scan bundle. This makes the dispatch trivially parallelizable across subagents.
Caller contract
The agent must pass the following in the skill invocation prompt. Two input modes for the ASCII payload — exactly one must be provided:
- Mode A — inline (one-off renders): pass
ascii_blockas a verbatim string. For rendering a diagram outside a Step-6 pass, when no.asciisidecar exists. - Mode B — from file (Step 6 standard): pass
ascii_file= absolute path to a.asciisidecar produced bytalksmith:polish-ascii→extract. The skill reads the file and splits it on the<!-- ascii-note:sentinel: everything before the sentinel (minus the separating blank line) is the ASCII payload; the comment from sentinel through-->populates theascii_notecontext input. This is the canonical input mode during a normal Step 6 pass — the sidecar already carries both the source and the diagram-illustrator's render-time intent.
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.
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.
- 7d ago Changed · +19 lines 53757524f1a8
- 12d ago First seen · 180 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A b1baf24beb4e
talksmith:ascii-to-svg is a skill published in the GitHub repository veigap/talksmith (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 6,176 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.
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