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Imported from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (skills/macos-screen-recorder/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill macos-screen-recorder. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).

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)

Name: macos-screen-recorder
Author: sickn33

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.

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-macos-screen-recorder/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-macos-screen-recorder.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-macos-screen-recorder",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "macos-screen-recorder",
  "description": "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.",
  "publisher": "sickn33",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "macos",
      "screen-recording",
      "system-audio",
      "screencapturekit",
      "cli",
      "swift",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "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."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills",
      "path": "skills/macos-screen-recorder/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/macos-screen-recorder/SKILL.md",
      "key": "sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/macos-screen-recorder/SKILL.md"
    },
    "license": "MIT"
  },
  "instructions": "## When to Use\n\nUse 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.\n\n_Source: [connerkward/macos-screen-recorder-system-audio](https://github.com/connerkward/macos-screen-recorder-system-audio) (MIT)._\n\n# macos-screen-recorder (sck-record)\n\n`sck-record.swift` → compiled `sck-record` (binary gitignored; built by `setup-machine`, or\n`swiftc -O sck-record.swift -o sck-record`). Records the main display + system audio via\nScreenCaptureKi",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 500
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-macos-screen-recorder/manifest?version=1.0.0

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