How do I install the Sanitise Ascii Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/sanitise-ascii/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Sanitise Ascii

Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc · Last updated: 2026-05-22

Sanitise non-ASCII characters from Markdown and SKILL files before they might be added to Agents, Harnesses, GitHub etc. General sharing. Use this skill whenever the user wants to check or clean .md files for non-ASCII, typographic, or mojibake characters. Trigger on "sanitise", "sanitize", "ascii clean", "check for non-ascii", "clean before push", "strip unicode", or any request to prepare skill/markdown files for Remote Agent use, GitHub or other sharing. Also trigger proactively at the end of any workflow that produces or edits .md files if the user has asked for ASCII-clean output.

From the source SKILL.md

Ensures Markdown and SKILL.md files contain only ASCII characters before they are committed or shared. Auto-fixes known typographic characters; flags anything it cannot fix.

What this skill does

Sanitise Ascii is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/sanitise-ascii/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Sanitise Ascii Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/sanitise-ascii
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/sanitise-ascii/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/sanitise-ascii/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/sanitise-ascii/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/sanitise-ascii/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\sanitise-ascii\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/rondomondo/agent-skills-beta/blob/HEAD/skills/sanitise-ascii/SKILL.md
Author: rondomondo
Website: https://github.com/rondomondo/agent-skills-beta

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Sanitise Ascii

From the source SKILL.md

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Manual install (2 steps)

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