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Macos Screen Recorder by ghosteken — Agent Skill

Name: Macos Screen Recorder
Author: Ghosteken

Macos Screen Recorder

macOS screen recorder that captures the main display PLUS system audio via ScreenCaptureKit — no BlackHole/loopback driver, no sudo, just the standard Screen Recording permission. CLI-driven; fills the headless-screen-recording-with-system-sound gap QuickTime and `screencapture -v` can't.

Ghosteken 7730ecc 2.3 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

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When to Use

Use when you need to script a screen recording WITH system sound on macOS from the CLI (demos, captures, voice-demo recording) — the case QuickTime and screencapture -v can't cover without a virtual audio device.

Source: connerkward/macos-screen-recorder-system-audio (MIT).

macos-screen-recorder (sck-record)

sck-record.swift → compiled sck-record (binary gitignored; built by setup-machine, or swiftc -O sck-record.swift -o sck-record). Records the main display + system audio via ScreenCaptureKit.

./sck-record <out.mp4> <seconds>

The one true differentiator: system audio from the CLI with zero install — no BlackHole / loopback virtual device, no sudo; only the standard Screen Recording permission (granted once to whatever app shells out). It is not a general "better than OBS/Screen Studio" tool — it fills exactly the headless-CLI-with-system-audio gap.

sck-record is the raw capture primitive — it records, nothing more. To polish a recording afterward (idle speed-up, auto-zoom, keystroke chips, smoothed cursor, vertical export), pair it with screenstudio-alternative-skill: record with sck-record --no-cursor <out.mp4> <seconds>, then run its post-production pass on the resulting mp4. (Auto-zoom and keystroke overlays additionally need an input-event log captured during recording, which that skill supplies; sck-record's pixels alone cover idle speed-up, cursor smoothing, and vertical export.)

Limitations

macOS only; it depends on ScreenCaptureKit and the user's Screen Recording permission.
The recorder captures raw display and system audio but does not provide editing, auto-zoom, captions, or social-format polish by itself.
Input-event overlays require a separate event log captured during recording; pixels alone cannot reconstruct keystrokes or precise click metadata.

---name: macos-screen-recorderdescription: macOS screen recorder that captures the main display PLUS system audio via ScreenCaptureKit — no BlackHole/loopback driver, no sudo, just the standard Screen Recording permission. CLI-driven; fills the headless-screen-recording-with-system-sound gap QuickTime and `screencapture -v` can't.license: MIT---## When to UseUse when you need to script a screen recording WITH system sound on macOS from the CLI (demos, captures, voice-demo recording) — the case QuickTime and `screencapture -v` can't cover without a virtual audio device._Source: [connerkward/macos-screen-recorder-system-audio](https://github.com/connerkward/macos-screen-recorder-system-audio) (MIT)._# macos-screen-recorder (sck-record)`sck-record.swift` → compiled `sck-record` (binary gitignored; built by `setup-machine`, or`swiftc -O sck-record.swift -o sck-record`). Records the main display + system audio viaScreenCaptureKit.```./sck-record <out.mp4> <seconds>```**The one true differentiator:** system audio from the CLI with **zero install** — noBlackHole / loopback virtual device, no sudo; only the standard Screen Recording permission(granted once to whatever app shells out). It is *not* a general "better than OBS/ScreenStudio" tool — it fills exactly the headless-CLI-with-system-audio gap.`sck-record` is the raw capture primitive — it records, nothing more. To polish arecording afterward (idle speed-up, auto-zoom, keystroke chips, smoothed cursor,vertical export), pair it with[screenstudio-alternative-skill](https://github.com/connerkward/screenstudio-alternative-skill):record with `sck-record --no-cursor <out.mp4> <seconds>`, then run its post-productionpass on the resulting mp4. (Auto-zoom and keystroke overlays additionally need aninput-event log captured *during* recording, which that skill supplies; `sck-record`'spixels alone cover idle speed-up, cursor smoothing, and vertical export.)## Limitations- macOS only; it depends on ScreenCaptureKit and the user's Screen Recording permission.- The recorder captures raw display and system audio but does not provide editing, auto-zoom, captions, or social-format polish by itself.- Input-event overlays require a separate event log captured during recording; pixels alone cannot reconstruct keystrokes or precise click metadata.

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