backup

backup is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (719 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backup tool that streams active asciinema recordings, which are terminal-session recordings, to a separate branch in a GitHub repository. It can also show status and recent backup history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, monitor, stop, and inspect streaming backups of recordings in GitHub.
Why use it?
It keeps recordings synchronized while they are being created, reducing the risk of losing an active session. It can split data at idle periods and optionally include session details.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to install, monitor, stop, and inspect streaming backups of recordings in GitHub.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/backup
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 backup
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.

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 backup

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/backup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/backup)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/backup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/backup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 719 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 77
    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 $0.00025 $0.00719
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash ee77952f4ddd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backup 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.

plugins/asciinema-tools/skills/backup/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/asciinema-tools:backup

Configure and manage streaming backup to GitHub orphan branch.

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.

Arguments

Argument Description
install Configure and start backup automation
status Show active backups and last sync
stop Disable backup for current session
history View recent backup commits
-r, --repo GitHub repository (e.g., owner/repo)
-i, --interval Sync interval (e.g., 30s, 5m)
--chunk Split at idle time
--meta Include session metadata

Execution

Invoke the asciinema-streaming-backup skill with user-selected options.

Skip Logic

  • If action provided -> skip Phase 1 (action selection)
  • If -r and -i provided -> skip Phase 2-3 (config and repo)

Workflow

  1. Preflight: Check gh CLI and fswatch
  2. Action: AskUserQuestion for action type
  3. Config: AskUserQuestion for backup settings
  4. Repo: AskUserQuestion for repository selection
  5. Execute: Run selected action

Examples

# Check current backup status
/asciinema-tools:backup status

# Configure and start backup automation
/asciinema-tools:backup install

# View recent backup history
/asciinema-tools:backup history

# Stop backup for current session
/asciinema-tools:backup stop

Troubleshooting

Issue Cause Solution
gh not found gh CLI not installed brew install gh
fswatch not found fswatch not installed brew install fswatch
Auth error GitHub token invalid/expired Run gh auth login
Orphan branch error Branch not initialized Run /asciinema-tools:daemon-setup
No recordings found No active .cast files Start a recording first

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 8d ago First seen · 80 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A ee77952f4ddd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backup is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 719 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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