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Record terminal with vhs

Name: Record terminal with vhs
Author: charmbracelet

Get a CLI home video recorder for founders, backed by 20k+ GitHub stars, for easy terminal recording.

From the repo · “Your CLI home video recorder 📼”

21,170 stars+49★ this week487 forksGoGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Jul 27Updated 10/1/2026100% free · open source

What it does

VHS is a command-line interface tool that allows you to record, replay, and share terminal sessions, similar to a video recorder for your terminal

When to use it

•When you need to demonstrate a complex command-line process to a team member or customer
•When you want to create a tutorial or guide for using a specific command-line tool or application
•When you need to debug an issue with a command-line process and want to share the recording with a colleague or support team

Ready-to-paste prompt

vhs record --title 'My Demo' --codec h264 my-demo-recording

Heads up: Make sure you have the necessary permissions and dependencies installed, including ffmpeg, to use VHS for recording and playback

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/vhs && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/vhs/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/vhs/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Record terminal with vhs works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Record terminal with vhs is a medium Go project (~5.2k lines across 42 code files). Setup is light: installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Medium codebase

~5.2k lines · 42 code files · 44 min skim

Setup

One-command install

Installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional.

Runs on

Go · Docker

No API keys detected

Go 99%Dockerfile 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
main.go
Where the program starts running
3
go.mod
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
4
examples/README.md
A worked example — copy this to get going

What's in each folder

examples/Examples you can copy215 files

lexer/Folder2 files

parser/Folder2 files

token/Folder2 files

scripts/Helper scripts1 files

.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)10 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyExamples includedMIT licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/vhs && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/vhs/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/vhs/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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