vhs-recorder

vhs-recorder is a skill for Claude Code from Agentic-Insights/foundry. It costs 25 tokens per session (881 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating terminal recordings with Charm's VHS, a tool that turns scripted terminal actions into demos or videos. It explains how to write VHS tape files with commands, key presses, pauses, and display settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record command-line tutorials, README animations, CLI demos, and documentation videos as GIFs or other supported outputs.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from timing terminal demonstrations and keeping setup steps out of the recording. This helps produce repeatable recordings for documentation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the vhs-recorder plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentic-insights/foundry/vhs-recorder
Any agent
npx skills add Agentic-Insights/foundry --skill vhs-recorder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Agentic-Insights/foundry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vhs-recorder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for vhs-recorder

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentic-insights/foundry/vhs-recorder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentic-insights/foundry/vhs-recorder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 881 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00881
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00088

Measured 6d ago against content hash b8bc4dcabc18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vhs-recorder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/vhs-recorder/skills/vhs-recorder/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VHS Recorder

Create terminal recordings with Charm's VHS. Use when creating CLI demos, README animations, documentation videos.

Prerequisites

  • vhs installed (brew install vhs / go install github.com/charmbracelet/vhs@latest)
  • ttyd and ffmpeg on PATH

Tape File Structure

Output demo.gif         # Outputs first
Set Width 1200          # Settings second
Set Theme "Catppuccin Mocha"
Require git             # Requirements third
Hide                    # Hidden setup
Type "cd /tmp && clear"
Enter
Show
Type "your command"     # Main recording
Enter
Wait
Sleep 2s

Core Commands

Command Purpose
Type "text" Type text (uses TypingSpeed setting)
Enter / Tab / Space Key presses
Up / Down / Left / Right Arrow navigation
PageUp / PageDown Page navigation
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+D / Ctrl+L Signal/EOF/clear combos
Wait / Wait /pattern/ Wait for prompt or regex match
Sleep 2s Fixed pause (supports ms/s/m)
Hide/Show Hide setup/cleanup from output
Type@50ms "text" Override typing speed inline
Backspace N / Delete N Delete N chars back/forward
Copy / Paste Clipboard operations
Screenshot path.png Capture single frame
Env VAR "value" Set environment variable

Essential Settings

Setting Default Notes
Width/Height 1200/600 Terminal dimensions in pixels
FontSize 32 Text size; FontFamily for custom fonts
TypingSpeed 50ms Per-char delay (override with Type@Xms)
Theme - Use vhs themes to list all available
Padding 40 Border space; LetterSpacing/LineHeight also available

Timing & Patterns

3-2-1 Rule: 3s after important commands, 2s between actions, 1s for transitions

  • Clean start: HideType "clear"EnterShow
  • Command-wait: TypeEnterWaitSleep 2s
  • Fast hidden: Type@10ms "setup command"
  • ASCII preview: Output demo.ascii for instant test

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 90 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b8bc4dcabc18

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vhs-recorder is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agentic-Insights/foundry (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 881 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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