proofshot

A command-line tool for checking website changes in a real browser while recording video, screenshots, server output, and errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a development server, navigating pages, clicking and filling controls, taking screenshots, and creating a verification report.
Why use it?
It helps catch problems that code checks may miss and gives people a record of what was tested.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/amelmo/proofshot/codex
Any agent
npx skills add AmElmo/proofshot --skill codex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmElmo/proofshot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 645 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00053 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00064

Measured yesterday against content hash ca1dbc7ba265, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proofshot 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to proofshot — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/codex/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ProofShot — Visual Verification Workflow

ProofShot is an open-source, agent-agnostic CLI that lets you verify your own work in a real browser — video proof, screenshots, and error reports, no vendor lock-in.

When to use

Use ProofShot after:

  • Building a new UI feature or page
  • Modifying existing UI components
  • Fixing a visual bug
  • Any change that affects what the user sees

The workflow (always follow these 3 steps)

Step 1: Start the session

proofshot start --run "your-dev-command" --port PORT --description "what you are about to verify"

This opens a browser and begins recording. If the port is already in use, proofshot will kill the existing process automatically.

Always use --run to let proofshot start and capture your dev server output (server logs appear in the proof report). Only omit --run if the server was explicitly started by the user or another process — without it, no server logs are captured.

If a previous session was not stopped cleanly, add --force to override it.

Step 2: Drive the browser and test

Use proofshot exec to navigate, interact, and verify:

proofshot exec snapshot -i                                    # See interactive elements
proofshot exec open http://localhost:PORT/page                # Navigate to a page
proofshot exec click @e3                                      # Click a button
proofshot exec fill @e2 "[email protected]"                    # Fill a form field
proofshot exec screenshot step-NAME.png                       # Capture key moments

Take screenshots at important moments — these become the visual proof. Verify what you expect to see by reading the snapshot output.

Step 3: Stop and bundle the proof

proofshot stop

This stops recording, collects console + server errors, and generates a SUMMARY.md with video, screenshots, and error report.

Step 4 (optional): Post proof to the PR

proofshot pr              # Auto-detect PR from current branch
proofshot pr 42           # Target a specific PR number

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 75 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A ca1dbc7ba265

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proofshot is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmElmo/proofshot (855 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 645 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to proofshot, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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