cli-demo-generator

An agent skill by daymade, from daymade/claude-code-skills. Tags: cli, demo, documentation, generative, video.

What it does

Generates professional animated CLI demos as GIFs using VHS terminal recordings. Handles tape file creation, self-bootstrapping demos with hidden setup, output noise filtering, post-processing speed-up, and frame-level verification. Use when users want to create terminal demos, record CLI workflows as GIFs, generate animated documentation, build demo tapes for README files, or need to showcase any command-line tool visually. Also triggers on "record terminal", "VHS tape", "demo GIF", "animate my CLI", or any request to visually demonstrate shell commands.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill cli-demo-generator

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
cp -r claude-code-skills/cli-demo-generator ~/.claude/skills/cli-demo-generator

Safety box score

Not rated yet. A safety box score grades what a skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. Anyone can request one from this page; it is saved for everyone. How the score works.

Source

Repository

daymade/claude-code-skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

cli-demo-generator/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-20

Related skills

• ad-creative — When the user wants to generate, iterate, or scale ad creative — headlines, descriptions, primary text.
• mermaid-to-proverif — pv files). pv file from a sequence diagram.
• remotion — Generate walkthrough videos from Stitch projects using Remotion with smooth transitions, zooming, and text overlays
• testing-handbook-generator — md files with the structure each skill type requires. guide. Not for answering security testing questions — the generated skills cover those.
• video — When the user wants to create, generate, or produce video content using AI tools or programmatic frameworks.
• prompt-optimizer — Transform vague prompts into precise, well-structured specifications using EARS (Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax) methodology.