Show HN: A screen recording CLI for your coding agent (Mac)
I vibe-coded this cli tool because most screen recording tools (with crop, zoom, effects etc) are GUI-based and my coding agent doesn't have any way of interacting with them. With it I was able to recreate all of the screenshots and recordings for the website of my Mac app, Grasmere ( https://grasmere.app ) in an hour or so.
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2026-11-11 23:08:58.922Z
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Repository: notoriousbfg/reel-cli. Source account: I vibe-coded this cli tool because most screen recording tools (with crop, zoom, effects etc) are GUI-based and my coding agent doesn't have any way of interacting with them. With it I was able to recreate all of the screenshots and recordings for the website of my Mac app, Grasmere ( https://grasmere.app ) in an hour or so.
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 11, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “addyosmani/agent-skills” (GitHub Trending, Nov 13, 2026); “CopilotKit/OpenBot” (GitHub Trending, Nov 13, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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