VHS

VHS is a terminal recording CLI built around .tape scripts that replay typed input and waits into rendered artifacts. It covers demo capture, terminal screenshots and videos, and text snapshot generation for testing.

• Render scripted terminal demos into GIF, WebM, MP4, PNG frame, or screenshot outputs from a repeatable .tape file.
• Record a live shell session into a starter tape, then edit or validate it before rerendering for docs, release notes, or tutorials.
• Capture .txt or .ascii terminal snapshots for golden-file testing, or render remotely over SSH on a host that already has the needed commands installed.

• Tape files, stdin input, and validate make render runs deterministic enough for CI, doc-generation pipelines, and retryable agent workflows.
• The automation surface is file-oriented rather than machine-readable: VHS emits media or text artifacts plus logs, with no JSON mode for downstream parsing.
• Best fit when an agent needs to package or verify terminal behavior visually; it is much less useful as a live control layer for inspecting or mutating external systems.

• Rendering requires ttyd and ffmpeg on PATH, and the render host also needs the commands being demonstrated.
• Tapes effectively script shell input, and publish uploads GIFs to vhs.charm.sh, so untrusted cassettes or automatic sharing need care.