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CLI Demo Generator

Turns shell commands into polished animated terminal GIFs using VHS tape recordings.

Image & VideoIntermediate★ 1,419⑂ 219AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 22, 2026

What it does

  • Takes a list of commands and generates a VHS .tape file, then renders it into an animated GIF.
  • Builds self-bootstrapping demos where cleanup/setup commands run hidden via the Hide → clear → Show pattern.
  • Handles real-world pain points: filtering noisy output, base64-encoding commands that VHS's parser rejects ($, backticks), speeding up GIFs with gifsicle, and verifying frames with ffmpeg.
  • Supports batch generation from a YAML config and live interactive recording via asciinema.

Who it's for

  • Open-source maintainers who need demo GIFs in their README.
  • Developers and DevRel folks documenting install/build/deploy flows visually.
  • Teams that want a reproducible demo pipeline instead of hand-recording every time.

Examples

  1. "Make a 1400x600 README GIF of npm install my-package then npm run build, sped up 2x."
  2. "Reset the previous install state before recording, but keep it out of the GIF" → uses --bootstrap.
  3. "Check frame 100 of the generated GIF to confirm the output rendered correctly" → ffmpeg frame extraction plus image review.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/HEAD/cli-demo-generator/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the cli-demo-generator folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/cli-demo-generator/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git /tmp/ccs && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/ccs/cli-demo-generator ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Install VHS: brew install charmbracelet/tap/vhs (on Linux, grab the binary from GitHub Releases).
  3. Install optional tools: brew install gifsicle ffmpeg asciinema.
  4. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git /tmp/ccs
  5. Copy the skill folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/ccs/cli-demo-generator ~/.claude/skills/
  6. Restart Claude Code, then ask something like "record a demo GIF of these commands" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT