glyph

glyph is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,381 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to display information as ASCII diagrams with meaningful emoji labels. ASCII art uses ordinary text characters to draw diagrams directly in a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to render the current topic or a supplied topic as a status box, comparison, architecture view, or another suitable text diagram.
Why use it?
It makes statuses, comparisons, trade-offs, and other relationships easier to scan when a visual explanation is useful but no graphical setup is available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ork plugin — 68 skills, 35 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph
Any agent
npx skills add yonatangross/orchestkit --skill glyph
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills, 35 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks.

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 glyph

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,381 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00064 $0.02381
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01190
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00238

Measured yesterday against content hash 2b216db55855, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glyph 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/ork/skills/glyph/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Glyph

Render the answer as ASCII art plus semantic emojis, inline, immediately. All output renders in a monospace terminal with no external tools.

Core principle: Encode information into structure, not decoration. Every diagram element should communicate something meaningful.

Execution (run this, do not ask first)

The whole point is speed, so there is no setup phase.

With no argument, the topic is the current conversation. Measured over a real 13-prompt session: zero asks supplied a self-contained topic, and the one direct invocation passed nothing at all. /ork:glyph on its own means "render where we are right now" — the open work, the decision just reached, the state of the thing being discussed. Render that; do not ask what to draw.

Given a topic (or the conversation, when none is given):

  1. Render immediately. Do NOT call AskUserQuestion to pick a format, do NOT call TaskCreate, do NOT spawn an Agent. Choose the form yourself from the topic shape and draw it. Asking first defeats the skill.

  2. Pick the form from the shape of the data, using the pattern library below:

    Topic shape Form
    state / progress / health status box + bar meters
    A vs B, options, trade-offs comparison table or side-by-side boxes
    steps, pipeline, hand-offs left-to-right flow with ──▶
    containment, layers, layout nested boxes / tree
    ranked list, scores, counts table + bar meters
    over time sparkline or milestone track
  3. Emit inline in the reply. Never write a file unless the user asked for one. This is a chat answer, not an artifact.

  4. Use the 12-emoji semantic set and box-drawing vocabulary defined in rules/visual-style.md (shipped with this skill). Semantic, never decorative: an emoji must mean something (✅ pass, ❌ fail, ⚠️ risk, 🔴 blocked).

  5. Stay inside the budget: ≤ 12 visual lines, and ≤ 40% of the reply. Block count within that is free — two 5-line blocks are fine, four 10-line blocks are not. This skill renders on request, it does not render without limit (#3558). Full derivation of the numbers is in rules/visual-style.md.

  6. State the point in prose first, in one or two sentences, then show the visual. The visual supports the answer; it is never the answer. If the reader has to parse a diagram to find out what happened, the reply failed.

  7. Stay honest. If a number is unknown, print ? rather than inventing one. A confident-looking chart built on guesses is worse than prose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. yesterday First seen · 216 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 2b216db55855

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glyph is a skill published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (228 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,381 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.