ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding

ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 24 tokens per session (426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for adding captions to the top or bottom line of a terminal box while keeping its spacing and text colors correct.

In plain words
What is it for?
For rendering aligned captions in command-line output, including captions that are too long or contain wide characters.
Why use it?
It prevents wide text, clipped captions, broken corners, and mismatched terminal color codes from damaging the border.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit For rendering aligned captions in command-line output, including captions that are too long or contain wide characters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ychampion/cskill-agents --skill ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 426 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 $0.00024 $0.00426
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00213
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 8d ago against content hash 41204218d2cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding 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 8d 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.

agents/claude-code/skills/ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: ANSI-Safe Border Caption Embedding

Domain: output-rendering Trigger: Apply when you must insert text into a border line (top or bottom) while preserving the border characters, colors, and alignment, even if the caption is wider than available space. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed terminal rendering, layout, animation, and accessibility implementations.

Core Method

Treat the border as a sequence of uniformly repeated characters, compute the textual width, and trim or center the caption before joining it back into the border; this keeps the corners intact. Use the helper that calculates string width (respecting wide characters), convert position into an absolute column, and split the border into before/text/after fragments so colors/dim states can be reapplied independently.

Key Rules

  • Always compute string width on the caption and the border to avoid breaking wide glyphs when aligning.
  • Guard with max width: if text length border length 2, cut the caption so it fits without overwriting corner glyphs.
  • Reapply color/dim styling separately to the prefix, caption, and suffix before writing to the output buffer so ANSI escapes stay symmetric.
  • Support start, end, and center alignments plus offset adjustments so captions can hug either edge without manual math.

Example Application

When labeling a dialog border, call this method with position:'top', align:'center', and the pre-rendered caption string; clip it if the window narrows, and keep the corner and side glyphs in place so the divider stays crisp.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Do not blur characters by writing the caption directly into the border string without recalculating width; wide glyphs will be truncated incorrectly.
  • Do not drop color/dim styling while embedding text, which makes the caption disappear under multi-colored borders.
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. 8d ago First seen · 28 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 41204218d2cd

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ansi-safe-border-caption-embedding is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 426 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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