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ascii-video
87 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.
By delorenj/skills (GitHub) · media · 17 stars · scanned at commit ff21323
ASCII video: convert video/audio to colored ASCII MP4/GIF.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
Found in 24 places.
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- ascii-video/references/architecture.md, line 701
stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=stderr_fh) - ascii-video/references/architecture.md, line 726
subprocess.run(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", concat_path, - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 11
subprocess.run(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", input_path, "-ac", "1", "-ar", "22050", - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 106
pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL) - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 422
subprocess.run( - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 426
result = subprocess.run( - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 504
subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, check=True) - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 600
proc = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True) - ascii-video/references/inputs.md, line 606
probe = subprocess.run( - ascii-video/references/optimization.md, line 35
mem_bytes = int(subprocess.check_output(["sysctl", "-n", "hw.memsize"]).strip()) - ascii-video/references/optimization.md, line 519
**CRITICAL**: Never `stderr=subprocess.PIPE` with long-running ffmpeg. The stderr buffer fills at ~64KB and deadlocks: - ascii-video/references/optimization.md, line 523
pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) - ascii-video/references/optimization.md, line 527
pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=stderr_fh) - ascii-video/references/optimization.md, line 547
subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, check=True) - ascii-video/references/optimization.md, line 588
r = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True) - ascii-video/references/scenes.md, line 500
pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, - ascii-video/references/scenes.md, line 501
stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=stderr_fh)
and 4 more places
Can call paid AI services billed to you
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a media skill.
Found in 1 place.
Connects to the internet
The author does not mention this. Expected for a media skill.
Found in 1 place.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ascii-video' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ascii-video' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ascii-video already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/delorenj/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ff2132360c4a12602f752a491f896043cb60584a' -- 'ascii-video' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'ascii-video' ~/.agents/skills/'ascii-video' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ascii-video' ~/.claude/skills/'ascii-video' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-09 | ff21323 | 87 |
| 2026-11-07 | f5cafc3 | 97 |
Also found in
Identical copies of this skill exist at:
- StarryCod/cogitum/cogitum/data/skills/creative/ascii-video