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Ascii Mini Charts

  • 11 installs
  • Updated July 29, 2026
  • full-statck-skills/ascii-skills

Generates ASCII mini charts (sparkline, bar, simple line) for plain-text trend inspection with minimal and annotated variants.

About

Renders small ASCII charts for quick visual trend inspection, with normalization notes and min/max/current annotations. A developer uses it to visualize a numeric series inline in terminals, logs, or plain text.

  • Sparkline, bar, and simple line variants
  • ASCII default with optional Unicode blocks and fallback

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  • 11 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #391 of 550 CLI & Terminal skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Jul 30, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/full-statck-skills/ascii-skills --skill ascii-mini-charts

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Last updatedJuly 29, 2026
Repositoryfull-statck-skills/ascii-skills

What it does

Generates ASCII mini charts (sparkline, bar, simple line) for plain-text trend inspection with minimal and annotated variants.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

When to use this skill

CRITICAL TRIGGER RULE

  • Use this skill ONLY when the user explicitly mentions the exact skill name: ascii-mini-charts.

Trigger phrases include:

  • "ascii-mini-charts"
  • "use ascii-mini-charts"
  • "用 ascii-mini-charts 生成 sparkline / 火花线"
  • "使用 ascii-mini-charts 标注 min/max/current"

Boundary

  • No statistical inference. Visualization only.
  • Default output is ASCII-only. Unicode blocks are optional and MUST include an ASCII-only fallback.
  • Default output width should stay <= 60 columns. For longer series, provide a compression strategy (sampling/bucketing).

How to use this skill

Inputs

  • series (required numeric list)
  • type (sparkline | bar | line, default sparkline)
  • width (default min(len(series), 30))
  • height (default 10 for bar/line)
  • normalize (linear | log, default linear)
  • showLabels (default true)

Outputs (required)

  • chartMinimal
  • chartAnnotated (with min/max/current)
  • scaleNotes (normalization + outlier strategy)

Script

  • scripts/mini_charts.py: generate ASCII mini charts from JSON stdin

Examples

  • examples/sparkline.md

Quality checklist

1. Trend is clear; labels are short and non-spammy 2. ASCII-only output copy/pastes cleanly 3. Provide a compression strategy for long series

Keywords

English: ascii-mini-charts, sparkline, ascii chart, bar chart, line chart, trend, normalize 中文: ascii-mini-charts, 火花线, ASCII 图表, 柱状图, 折线图, 趋势, 归一化

常见陷阱 (Gotchas)

1. 版本兼容性:注意框架版本与依赖库的兼容性,不同版本 API 可能有差异 2. 配置文件格式:配置文件格式错误是最常见的问题,建议使用编辑器的语法检查 3. 环境变量:确保所有必要的环境变量已正确设置,敏感信息不要硬编码 4. 依赖冲突:多版本共存时注意依赖冲突,使用 lock 文件锁定版本 5. 性能陷阱:大数据量场景下注意性能优化,避免 N+1 查询等常见问题

使用流程

Step 1: 环境准备

确保开发环境已安装必要的依赖和工具。

Step 2: 配置初始化

根据项目需求进行基础配置。

Step 3: 核心功能使用

按照示例代码实现核心功能。

Step 4: 测试验证

运行测试确保功能正常。

Step 5: 部署上线

完成开发后进行部署和监控。

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