ascii-art SKILL.md skillA

ascii-art from taracodlabs/aiden is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add taracodlabs/aiden/ascii-art@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
taracodlabs/aiden
Path
workspace-templates/skills/ascii-art/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed May 3, 2026
Size
4,057 bytes
Repository stars
870
License
AGPL-3.0

Generate ASCII art text banners, box art, and decorative text using pyfiglet, cowsay, and boxes CLI tools.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# ASCII Art Generation

Create ASCII art text banners, speech bubbles, box decorations, and large display text using `pyfiglet`, `cowsay`, and `boxes` — all CLI/Python tools.

## When to Use

- User wants a stylized text banner for a terminal script or README
- User wants a fun cowsay/fortune-style message
- User wants decorative box borders around text
- User wants large ASCII letters for display purposes
- User wants ASCII art for CLI tool headers or splash screens

## How to Use

### 1. Install tools

```powershell
pip install pyfiglet
pip install cowsay

# boxes (optional, for border art)
# Windows: winget install info-zip.unzip  # then download boxes binary
```

### 2. Generate a text banner with pyfiglet

```python
import pyfiglet

# Default font (Standard)
print(pyfiglet.figlet_format("Hello World"))

# Specific font
print(pyfiglet.figlet_format("DevOS", font="banner3-D"))

# List all available fonts
fonts = pyfiglet.FigletFont.getFonts()
print(f"Available fonts: {len(fonts)}")
print(fonts[:20])
```

### 3. Sample popular pyfiglet fonts

```python
import pyfiglet

text = "AIDEN"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add taracodlabs/aiden/ascii-art@sha256:8614340b34ddac11

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_luo2q54oauaa7tb3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_luo2q54oauaa7tb3)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 3, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-05-03 69aaf85 4,057 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4057 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

taracodlabs/aiden · 870 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_luo2q54oauaa7tb3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=taracodlabs/aiden/ascii-art
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8614340b34ddac110780b5b5cfc21dde24f59975f400136b704ee8e61df1fc90

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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