glyph

glyph is a skill for Claude Code from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 92 tokens per session (4,605 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ork plugin — 111 skills, 38 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to render the current topic or a supplied topic as a status box, comparison, architecture view, or another suitable text diagram.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph
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.

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.

Or install ork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 111 skills, 38 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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for glyph

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/glyph.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,605 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.04605
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.01842
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00921
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00460

Measured 14d ago against content hash e61e603e67db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 14d 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.

plugins/ork/skills/glyph/SKILL.md · 283 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 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)

A human asking "how do I use this" gets a URL, not a paraphrase: https://orchestkit.yonyon.ai/docs/reference/skills/glyph#examples (what it draws, the two picks, three real renders, the exact invocation; generated from this skill's examples/_featured.md, so it cannot drift from the skill).

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

Already loaded means render, not hand off. Once this file is loaded, draw the answer here. Do not call the Skill tool for glyph, /glyph, or /ork:glyph. A second invocation loads a skill again and re-runs the planning step. The 2026-09-15 Devin transcript showed "Invoked skill glyph" then "Invoked skill ork:glyph", one render stacked on another. Whether that re-entry is also why the Thoughts text repeated is not verified here; do not re-enter either way. The front door does not delegate. A user may have a personal skill also named glyph (/glyph); it lives in a separate namespace, may call this skill for its chat route, and is never called from here (references/dials.md, "Personal skills named glyph").

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. 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. Resolve the two dials, then announce them in one line. Surface is chat, ask or page (default chat); audience is operator or novice (default operator). A flag beats inference: --chat, --ask, --page, --eli5, --decide, --signoff. Print exactly → chat · operator (surface, then audience) and a blank line before the answer. Inference rules, the ask guardrail and the --decide shapes: Read("references/dials.md").
  2. Render immediately. Do NOT call AskUserQuestion to pick a format (the ask surface and --signoff are the only questions this skill asks), 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.
  3. Pick the form from the shape of the data, using the pattern library below:

Read the full file on GitHub · 283 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. 14d ago Changed · +10 lines e61e603e67db
  2. 17d ago Changed · +3 lines 400e3fb066df
  3. 22d ago Changed cdea5e1a7f44
  4. 23d ago Changed · -1 lines 5a08b246cd0d
  5. 27d ago Changed · -22 tokens per session 69a5129dba1a
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines cdf27e00c313
  7. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 391e99f7ca74
  8. 1mo ago Changed · +45 lines · +26 tokens per session 3d4976124e03
  9. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 452037250f46
  10. 1mo ago First seen · 219 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 660ba7b48794

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glyph is a skill published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (298 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 4,605 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.