ascii

ascii is a skill for Claude Code from yarikleto/claude-teacher-plugin. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating simple diagrams directly in a terminal using Unicode box-drawing characters. It chooses layouts such as flowcharts, sequence diagrams, tables, and trees based on the subject.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draw protocol flows, decision paths, packet layouts, system architecture, comparisons, or directory and class hierarchies.
Why use it?
It makes processes, structures, relationships, and comparisons easier to understand without requiring a separate diagramming application.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-teacher plugin — 15 skills, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to draw protocol flows, decision paths, packet layouts, system architecture, comparisons, or directory and class hierarchies.

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Install

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add yarikleto/claude-teacher-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-teacher

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-teacher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 5 hooks.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,733 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 $0.00092 $0.01733
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00866
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00173

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7d98ef8b198f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii 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 3d 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/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requested topic/task: $ARGUMENTS

Before accessing education data, read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/education-data.md. Resolve every <education-db> below using that contract. Current session ID: ${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}.

ASCII

Create ASCII art diagrams with detailed educational explanations. All output is pure Unicode box-drawing art — renders in any modern terminal, no external tools needed.

Invocation

/claude-teacher:ascii <concept description>

Style Selection

Concept Type Style Example Use
Time-ordered (protocol flows, request/response) Sequence diagram TCP handshake, HTTP request
States/decisions (transitions, branching) Flowchart Connection lifecycle, error handling
Byte-level/structural (memory, packets, formats) RFC-style grid or table TCP header, packet layout
Relationships/architecture (components, deps) Box-and-line with layers System architecture, module deps
Comparisons (A vs B) Side-by-side or before/after Active vs passive mode
Hierarchies (trees, org charts) Tree with branches Directory structure, class hierarchy

Character Toolkit

Visual hierarchy through line weight:

Weight Characters Use For
Double ═ ║ ╔ ╗ ╚ ╝ ╠ ╣ ╦ ╩ ╬ Outer boundaries, system borders, emphasis
Single ─ │ ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ├ ┤ ┬ ┴ ┼ Standard boxes, connections
Rounded ╭ ╮ ╰ ╯ Softer/informal elements
Dashed ┄ ┆ or - - - Optional, conditional, weak relationships
Heavy ━ ┃ ┏ ┓ ┗ ┛ Bold emphasis

Arrows: → ← ↑ ↓ ↔ standard, ▶ ◀ ▲ ▼ filled, ⇒ ⇐ double

Fill/shading: light, medium, dark, full

Elision: vertical omission, horizontal omission

Style Recipes

Sequence Diagram

  Client              Server
    │                    │
    │   SYN (seq=x)      │
    │───────────────────▶│
    │                    │
    │  SYN-ACK (seq=y)   │
    │◀───────────────────│
    │                    │
  • Vertical lifelines per actor, names at top
  • Horizontal arrows with labels above
  • Consistent column spacing and arrow lengths

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 3d ago Changed · +4 lines · +15 tokens per session 7d98ef8b198f
  2. 11d ago First seen · 161 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 0c9ca0a23e5a

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ascii is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarikleto/claude-teacher-plugin (8 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,733 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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