atmos-cast

atmos-cast is a skill for Claude Code from cloudposse/atmos. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A terminal-session recording system that saves command-line activity as replayable cast files. These recordings can be rendered as GIF, MP4, HTML, text, PNG, or JPEG files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for recording CLI demos, producing documentation images or videos, capturing proof of workflow runs, and creating simulated terminal sessions.
Why use it?
It turns terminal demonstrations and workflow runs into repeatable evidence instead of one-off screen recordings.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the atmos plugin — 51 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for recording CLI demos, producing documentation images or videos, capturing…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudposse/atmos/atmos-cast
About the project

Atmos is an infrastructure runtime that coordinates tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Helm, Packer, Ansible, and containers through consistent commands and configuration. It is for teams running cloud infrastructure on laptops, in CI, or through AI agents across environments and regions. Its catalogue entries provide skills, agents, commands, and other add-ons for Atmos workflows.

cloudposse/atmos · 1,372 stars · on GitHub · atmos.tools

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.

Any agent
npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-cast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atmos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,419 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00066 $0.02419
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01210
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00242

Measured 3d ago against content hash f794d845a2df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atmos-cast 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 3d 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.

agent-skills/skills/atmos-cast/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atmos Cast

Use this skill for Atmos's built-in terminal session recording and rendering subsystem. A cast is an asciicast v2 recording (.cast) of a terminal session that Atmos can play back or render into shareable artifacts (GIF, MP4, HTML, ASCII, PNG, JPEG).

Need Load
Workflow step types in general, orchestration, output/UI steps atmos-workflows
Custom CLI commands with native steps atmos-custom-commands
Global settings (atmos.yaml non-subsystem options) atmos-settings

Purpose

Cast recording turns a terminal session into a deterministic, replayable artifact instead of a one-off screen capture. It is used to:

  • Record CLI demos and documentation screengrabs as committed .cast files that render identically every time (no flaky video capture, no OS-specific fonts/cursors baked in).
  • Capture a workflow or custom-command run as a proof-of-run artifact (CI evidence, runbook reproduction).
  • Script fully synthetic "simulated" terminal sessions (typed commands with jitter, styled prompts) for docs and mindset demos, without actually running the commands shown.

Key Commands

Command Purpose
atmos cast play <input.cast> Play an asciicast recording back in the terminal
atmos cast render <input.cast> --output=<path> Render a recording to GIF, MP4, HTML, ASCII, PNG, or JPEG
atmos cast render <input.cast> --output=<path> --format=<fmt> Render with an explicit format when the output filename's extension doesn't indicate one

Global --cast Flag / ATMOS_CAST

Any Atmos command can be recorded directly, without going through atmos cast:

atmos terraform plan vpc -s dev --cast=demo.cast   # record raw asciicast
atmos terraform plan vpc -s dev --cast=demo.gif    # record, then auto-render to gif, discard the intermediate .cast
atmos terraform plan vpc -s dev --cast              # auto value: record without keeping/rendering (ad hoc)
ATMOS_CAST=demo.cast atmos terraform plan vpc -s dev

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 214 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A f794d845a2df

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atmos-cast is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudposse/atmos (1,372 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,419 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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