asciinema-player

asciinema-player is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playback helper for .cast files, which are recordings of terminal sessions, in iTerm2 on macOS. It supports selectable speed and options such as looping, resizing, and marker pauses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to watch or demonstrate terminal recordings with control over speed and display behavior.
Why use it?
It removes the need to open recordings manually and configure playback settings each time. Batch playback is not described in the input.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ls -lh ./tmp/*.cast 2>/dev/null.

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

Good fit Use it to watch or demonstrate terminal recordings with control over speed and display behavior.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/asciinema-player

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 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,716 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00034 $0.02716
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01358
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00272

Measured 11d ago against content hash ecc75a53488a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asciinema-player 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-player/SKILL.md · 380 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 380 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

asciinema-player

Play terminal session recordings (.cast files) in a dedicated iTerm2 window with full playback controls. Opens a clean window (bypasses default arrangements) for distraction-free viewing.

Platform: macOS only (requires iTerm2)

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:

  • Playing back .cast recordings in iTerm2
  • Reviewing session recordings without browser limitations
  • Handling large recordings (>100MB) that crash browser players
  • Demoing or reviewing terminal sessions

Why iTerm2 Instead of Browser?

Aspect Browser Player iTerm2 CLI
Large files (>100MB) Crashes (memory limit) Streams from disk
Memory usage 2-4GB for 700MB file Minimal
Startup time Slow (download + parse) Instant
Native feel Web-based True terminal

Decision: iTerm2 CLI is the only reliable method for large recordings.


Requirements

Component Required Installation
iTerm2 Yes brew install --cask iterm2
asciinema CLI Yes brew install asciinema

Note: This skill is macOS-only. Linux users should run asciinema play directly in their terminal.


Workflow Phases (ALL MANDATORY)

IMPORTANT: All phases are MANDATORY. Do NOT skip any phase. AskUserQuestion MUST be used at each decision point.

Phase 0: Preflight Checks

Purpose: Verify iTerm2 and asciinema are installed.

Step 0.1: Check Dependencies
# Check iTerm2 is installed
ls -d /Applications/iTerm.app 2>/dev/null && echo "iTerm2: OK" || echo "iTerm2: MISSING"

# Check asciinema CLI
which asciinema && asciinema --version

Read the full file on GitHub · 380 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 · 380 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ecc75a53488a

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asciinema-player is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (72 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,716 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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