ASCII85 Encoding Skill

Overview

ASCII85 Encoder works by converting binary data to ASCII text using base-85 encoding, which represents 4 bytes with 5 ASCII characters. Includes special handling for zero bytes and format delimiters.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as ASCII85EncodingSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "ASCII85EncodingSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "text": "Hello World"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about Hello World in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for ASCII85EncodingSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`text`Required	string	Text to encode
`action`Optional	string	Action to perform `encodedecode` default encode
`format`OptionalPremium	string	Output format `standardbtoa` default standard

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "original_text": "Hello World",
    "encoded": "87cURD]i,\"Ebo7",
    "format": "standard",
    "original_length": 11,
    "encoded_length": 14,
    "compression_ratio": "127.27%"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`original_text`	string	`Hello World`	The original input text before encoding
`encoded`	string	`87cURD]i,"Ebo7`	The ASCII85 text that was decoded
`format`Premium	string	`standard`	The ASCII85 variant used, standard or btoa
`original_length`	number	`11`	The character count of the original text
`encoded_length`	number	`14`	The character count of the ASCII85 input
`compression_ratio`Premium	string	`127.27%`	The size ratio of encoded to original text

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Data Encoding: Encode binary data for text-based transmission with better compression than Base64
PDF Processing: Handle ASCII85-encoded data in PDF files and PostScript documents
Data Serialization: Serialize binary data for storage in text-based formats like JSON or XML
Compression: Achieve better compression ratios for binary data in text-only protocols

Other ways to use ASCII85 Encoding Skill

Set up ASCII85 Encoding Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →

Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →