asciinema-cast-format

asciinema-cast-format is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,970 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Reference documentation for the asciinema v3 .cast format, a text-based format for storing terminal-session recordings. It describes the file header, events, timestamps, terminal dimensions, and event codes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when parsing, inspecting, generating, or debugging .cast files and format errors.
Why use it?
It helps you understand what each line and field in a recording means instead of treating the file as opaque data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the asciinema-tools plugin — 24 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it when parsing, inspecting, generating, or debugging .cast files and format errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/asciinema-cast-format
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill asciinema-cast-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install asciinema-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,970 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: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 251
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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 $0.00037 $0.01970
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00985
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00197

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0dee628c6dad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asciinema-cast-format 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 11d 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.

plugins/asciinema-tools/skills/asciinema-cast-format/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

asciinema-cast-format

Reference documentation for the asciinema v3 .cast file format (asciicast v2 specification).

Platform: All platforms (documentation only)

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Parsing or inspecting .cast file structure
  • Understanding NDJSON header and event formats
  • Building tools that read or write .cast files
  • Debugging recording issues or format errors
  • Learning the asciicast v2 specification

Format Overview

Asciinema v3 uses NDJSON (Newline Delimited JSON) format:

  • Line 1: Header object with recording metadata
  • Lines 2+: Event arrays with timestamp, type, and data

Header Specification

The first line is a JSON object with these fields:

Field Type Required Description
version int Yes Format version (always 2 for v3 recordings)
width int Yes Terminal width in columns
height int Yes Terminal height in rows
timestamp int No Unix timestamp of recording start
duration float No Total duration in seconds
title string No Recording title
env object No Environment variables (SHELL, TERM)
theme object No Terminal color theme

Example Header

{
  "version": 2,
  "width": 120,
  "height": 40,
  "timestamp": 1703462400,
  "duration": 3600.5,
  "title": "Claude Code Session",
  "env": { "SHELL": "/bin/zsh", "TERM": "xterm-256color" }
}

Event Codes

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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. 11d ago First seen · 254 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 0dee628c6dad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asciinema-cast-format is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (72 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,970 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 2026-08-30.

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