convert

convert is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for converting asciinema recordings, which are saved terminal sessions, into readable text files, either one recording or a directory at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert .cast files, preserve terminal dimensions, add timestamps, split long idle periods, analyze output, or process batches while skipping existing files.
Why use it?
It makes terminal activity easier to inspect, search, archive, or analyze than a recording alone.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to convert .cast files, preserve terminal dimensions, add timestamps, split long idle periods, analyze output, or process batches while skipping existing files.

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

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,053 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.
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 $0.00031 $0.01053
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 7d ago against content hash bf1ceca84701, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convert 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 7d 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/convert/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/asciinema-tools:convert

Convert asciinema .cast recordings to clean .txt files. Supports single file and batch directory modes.

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

Single File Mode

Argument Description
file Path to .cast file
-o, --output Output path (default: same dir)
--index Create timestamp indexed version
--chunks Split at 30s+ idle pauses
--dims Preserve terminal dimensions
--analyze Auto-run /analyze after conversion

Batch Mode

Argument Description
--batch Enable batch mode for directory conversion
--source Source directory (default: ~/asciinemalogs)
--output-dir Output directory (default: ~/Downloads/cast-txt/)
--skip-existing Skip files that already have .txt output (default: true)

Note: --batch and positional file are mutually exclusive.

Execution

Invoke the asciinema-converter skill with user-selected options.

Single File Skip Logic

  • If file provided → skip Phase 1 (file selection)
  • If options provided → skip Phase 2 (options)
  • If -o provided → skip Phase 3 (output location)
  • If --analyze provided → skip Phase 6 and auto-run analyze

Batch Mode Skip Logic

  • If --batch provided → skip Phases 1-3, enter batch phases (7-10)
  • If --source provided → skip Phase 7 (source selection)
  • If --output-dir provided → skip Phase 8 (output organization)

Single File Workflow

  1. Preflight: Check asciinema convert command
  2. Discovery: Find .cast files
  3. Selection: AskUserQuestion for file
  4. Options: AskUserQuestion for conversion options
  5. Location: AskUserQuestion for output location
  6. Execute: Run asciinema convert
  7. Report: Display compression ratio
  8. Next: AskUserQuestion for follow-up action

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 7d ago First seen · 110 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A bf1ceca84701

Subscribe to this mod's changes

convert is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,053 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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