Record terminal demos and reproducible CLI walkthroughs with asciinema

Capture a terminal session as a replayable cast when an agent needs a text-native CLI repro or walkthrough instead of a generic screen recording.

Prerequisites

asciinema CLI and a terminal session to record

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema
• git clone https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema
• cargo build --release

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Building asciinema from source requires the Rust
• The previous generation (2.x), written in Python, can be found in the python

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• To record a session run this command in your shell:

• To stream a session via built-in HTTP server run:

• To stream a session via a relay (asciinema server) run:

• Source: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asciinema/asciinema/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema#readme

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange