Macos screen recorder system audio
Headless 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. 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.From its SKILL.md
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- 1 stars1 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
- runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 3 commands, including `swiftc -O sck-record.swift -o sck-record` and 2 more.
SKILL.md
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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.)
What ships with it: 8 files
69.7 KB alongside SKILL.md
.claude-plugin/
- marketplace.json614 B
- plugin.json715 B
- LICENSE1.0 KB
- llms.txt679 B
- README.md6.3 KB
- sck-record.swift4.4 KB