screen-record

A Mac screen-recording tool that starts and stops an ffmpeg video capture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make demo videos, bug-reproduction recordings, or walkthroughs saved as MOV files.
Why use it?
It records a period of screen activity when a still screenshot is not enough. It also handles repeated starts and stops without wedging on some stale process files.

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/sonichi/sutando/screen-record
Any agent
npx skills add sonichi/sutando --skill screen-record
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonichi/sutando

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 413 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 $0.00058 $0.00413
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00041

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3d502c9ac9fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screen-record 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/narration-tee.ts, scripts/record.py, scripts/subtitle.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/screen-record/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Screen Record

Start and stop screen recording using ffmpeg.

Usage: /screen-record start or /screen-record stop

When to use

The user asks to record the screen to a video over time (demo, bug repro, walkthrough). For a single still frame, use the screen-capture path instead.

On activation

If argument is start:

python3 skills/screen-record/scripts/record.py start

If argument is stop:

python3 skills/screen-record/scripts/record.py stop

Output & failure modes

  • Done = a .mov written by record.py to /tmp/sutando-recording-<ts>.mov (it prints the path on stop).
  • start while already recording → the script no-ops and returns the existing pid + path; a stale PID file (previous run crashed) is detected and cleared, so it self-heals rather than wedging; stop with nothing running → no-op.
  • ffmpeg missing at /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (hardcoded in three places — record.py:59 device-listing, :152 the recording call, :204 the audio check. Apple Silicon brew prefix; on an Intel Mac brew install ffmpeg lands in /usr/local and the skill stays broken until all three are fixed — patching only the recording call still fails at device-listing before recording starts). No frames / black video → the invoking terminal lacks macOS Screen Recording permission (same grant the screen-capture server uses).
Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 33 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 3d502c9ac9fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screen-record is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonichi/sutando (389 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 413 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 2026-08-30.