cli-recorder

cli-recorder is a skill for Claude Code from marsmike/feinschmiede. It costs 42 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide that turns an idea for a command-line demonstration into a validated recording recipe. A command-line session is a sequence of commands and responses shown in a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan recordings such as installing software or demonstrating Git commands, then save a recipe for the user to run.
Why use it?
It resolves the details that make recordings reliable, such as interactive prompts, waiting for output, pauses, and typing speed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} variable.

Part of the feinschnitt plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan recordings such as installing software or demonstrating Git commands, then save a recipe for the user to run.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marsmike/feinschmiede/cli-recorder
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 marsmike/feinschmiede --skill cli-recorder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marsmike/feinschmiede

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install feinschnitt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00042 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00046

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6db1e006f50f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-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 7d 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.

feinschnitt/skills/cli-recorder/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

CLI Recorder — Recipe Author

Help users turn an idea ("a video of installing kubectl on macOS", "a tour of git rebase -i") into a valid recipe.toml for the feinschnitt record command.

Quick Start

/record "a tour of git rebase -i"

See references/steps.md for per-step detail and examples.

When to use

User says "create a recording for X" / "record a demo of Y", invokes /record, or has a video idea but no recipe file yet.

Hard gate

Do NOT run the recorder. Do NOT scaffold the surrounding Remotion video. Stop after the recipe is written and validated. The user runs feinschnitt record themselves once they're happy.

Process

1. Discover intent           → What CLI? What's the audience? What's the takeaway?
2. Pick a profile            → claude-code | generic | interactive-tui
3. Sketch the steps          → 3-9 beats; each beat ≈ one screen of action
4. Resolve modal/interactive → which steps need dismiss keys, pattern waits, pauses
5. Tune cadence              → typing_wpm, idle compression, idle_time_limit
6. Write the recipe          → ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.recordings/recipes/<name>.recipe.toml
7. Show + validate           → display the file; offer a dry-run for verification

Apply one question at a time — prefer multiple choice over open-ended. The storyboard is the step labels; sketch those before the text content. Validate the written recipe against schema/recipe.schema.json before declaring done.

References

  • references/steps.md — per-step detail, anti-patterns, label examples
  • schema/recipe.schema.json — full validation surface; profiles/*.toml — profile presets
Files

What ships with it

9 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. 7d ago First seen · 46 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6db1e006f50f

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cli-recorder is a skill published in the GitHub repository marsmike/feinschmiede (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.