asciinema-recorder

asciinema-recorder is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,330 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A helper for recording Claude Code sessions with asciinema, a tool that captures terminal activity as a replayable recording. It creates commands and filenames based on the workspace and time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record terminal sessions, demos, or reviews, with recordings saved in a project's temporary folder when the asciinema command-line tool is installed.
Why use it?
It makes session recordings easier to start, name, store, and share without manually preparing the command each time.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/user/projects/my-app/tmp/my-app_2025-12-21_14-30.cast.

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

Good fit Use it to record terminal sessions, demos, or reviews, with recordings saved in a project's temporary folder when the asciinema command-line tool is installed.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add terrylica/cc-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install asciinema-tools

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 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,330 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00032 $0.02330
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01165
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00233

Measured 13d ago against content hash 5202040a29de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

asciinema-recorder scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 13d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install asciinema
plugins/asciinema-tools/skills/asciinema-recorder/SKILL.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

asciinema-recorder

Generate ready-to-copy commands for recording Claude Code sessions with asciinema. Dynamically creates filenames based on workspace and datetime.

Platform: macOS, Linux (requires asciinema CLI)

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:

  • Starting a new terminal recording session
  • Creating demos or documentation recordings
  • Capturing Claude Code sessions for review or sharing
  • Generating workspace-specific recording filenames

Why This Skill?

This skill generates ready-to-copy recording commands with:

  • Dynamic workspace-based filename
  • Datetime stamp for uniqueness
  • Saves to project's tmp/ folder (gitignored)

Requirements

Component Required Installation
asciinema CLI Yes brew install asciinema

Workflow Phases

Phase 0: Preflight Check

Purpose: Verify asciinema is installed.

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

If asciinema is NOT installed, use AskUserQuestion:

  • question: "asciinema not found. How would you like to proceed?" header: "Setup" multiSelect: false options:
    • label: "Install asciinema (Recommended)" description: "Run: brew install asciinema (macOS) or apt install asciinema (Linux)"
    • label: "Show manual instructions" description: "Display installation commands for all platforms"
    • label: "Cancel" description: "Exit without recording"

Based on selection:

  • "Install asciinema" → Run appropriate install command based on OS:

    # macOS
    brew install asciinema
    
    # Linux (apt)
    sudo apt install asciinema
    
    # Linux (pip)
    pip install asciinema
    

    Then proceed to Phase 1.0.

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 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. 13d ago First seen · 346 lines · 32 tokens per session scan B 5202040a29de

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asciinema-recorder is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,330 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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