screen-recorder

screen-recorder is a skill for Claude Code from mthines/agent-skills. It costs 210 tokens per session (3,602 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for making short videos of a specific part of a web page while scripted actions play out. It can save the result as a WebM, MP4, or GIF file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture hover effects, clicks, focus changes, scrolling, keyboard actions, and other motion for bug reports or code reviews.
Why use it?
A still screenshot cannot show animations, transitions, or interactive behaviour, so the recording provides visible evidence of what happens over time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the mthines-agent-skills plugin — 55 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture hover effects, clicks, focus changes, scrolling, keyboard actions, and other motion for bug reports or code reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mthines/agent-skills/screen-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 mthines/agent-skills --skill screen-recorder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mthines/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mthines-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 4 agents.

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 screen-recorder

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for screen-recorder

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mthines/agent-skills/screen-recorder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mthines/agent-skills/screen-recorder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 210 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,602 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 107
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 270
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 287
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00210 $0.03602
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.01801
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00720
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00360

Measured 8d ago against content hash 74e605a5b400, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screen-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 8d 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.

skills/analysis/screen-recorder/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screen Recorder

Produces a short .webm clip of a specific page section so an agent — or a reviewer reading a PR — can see motion that a static screenshot hides. Not a test suite, not a permanent fixture: every recording is a throwaway artifact written to .agent/recordings/ for one-shot visual review.

This SKILL.md is a thin index. Detailed rules live in rules/*.md and load on demand. Literal Playwright and ffmpeg boilerplate the skill emits lives in templates/*.md. Do not preload everything — load only what the current phase asks for.


When to use

Reach for this skill when any of the following is true:

  • A diff changes animation, transition, or interactive motion code (@keyframes, transition, View Transitions, Motion layout, @starting-style, scroll-driven timelines).
  • A still screenshot would not falsify the bug or feature claim — the proof requires at least two frames.
  • A reviewer asks "what does this look like?" on a PR whose answer is a moving image, not a description.
  • The animations skill has produced an animation and wants visual evidence it hits 60 fps and respects prefers-reduced-motion.
  • The ux skill flagged a flow (drag, focus ring, hover reveal, expanding nav, modal entrance) where the asserted UX claim is about timing, not layout.

Do not reach for this skill when:

  • A static screenshot is sufficient — capture a still directly (the pr-reviewer agent's visual pass reads stills locally; it never attaches them to the PR).
  • The task is to author a durable Playwright test — use the e2e-testing skill.
  • The input is an existing trace.zip — use playwright-trace-analyzer.
  • The input is an existing screen recording (e.g., a user bug report) — use video-analyser.

Phase 0 — Preflight (mandatory gate)

Before recording anything, verify the environment. Halt and ask the user before installing tools.

Run these checks (read-only):

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 313 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A 74e605a5b400

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screen-recorder is a skill published in the GitHub repository mthines/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session and 3,602 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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