Record Terminal Demos And Reproducible Cli Walkthroughs With Asciinema

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name: "Record terminal demos and reproducible CLI walkthroughs with asciinema"
slug: "record-terminal-demos-and-reproducible-cli-walkthroughs-with-asciinema"
description: "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."
github_stars: 17188
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source: "https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema"
author: "asciinema"
publisher_type: "organization"
category: "Media & Transcription"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "asciinema/asciinema"
  github_stars: 17188
---

# 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](https://www.rust-lang.org/)
- 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](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/record-terminal-demos-and-reproducible-cli-walkthroughs-with-asciinema/)