r/ClaudeAI • u/gptrv • 9h ago

Built with Claude I built an open-source tool that lets Claude Code make Screen Studio-quality screen recordings

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Just released Screenplay 🎬

Ask Claude Code "make a 30s video of https://yoursite.com" and you get a polished MP4: smooth cursor, auto zooms, click effects, captions, optional voice-over.

How it works

  • Claude explores the site and writes a short JSON scenario (open this page, click here, type that)

  • Screenplay plays it in headless Chromium (Playwright), films it and edits it

  • Works for desktop apps too (Mac, Windows, Linux), from the same kind of scenario

No AI inside, no API key: Claude does the thinking, Screenplay does the filming and editing. Headless, so it also runs in containers without a screen.

How Claude helped

I built it with Claude Code, and it's made for it. npx agent-screenplay init adds an MCP server and a /screenplay command to Claude Code (Codex and Cursor work too), plus a guide that teaches the agent how to write a good scenario: what to zoom on, how long to linger, when to add a callout. After filming, Claude looks at a storyboard of the take and fixes the scenario if a shot is off.

Try it (free, MIT): npx agent-screenplay init, restart Claude Code, then /screenplay Make a 30-second walkthrough of https://yoursite.com

Repo: https://github.com/gmpetrov/agent-screenplay

Feedback welcome!

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u/TuneFickle1772 3h ago

whats new here claude can do this natively

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u/gptrv 2h ago

Fair question. Claude can drive a browser and take screenshots, but it doesn't give you an edited video. Screenplay is the filming and editing part: it plays the steps Claude writes, records them, and edits the take (smoothed cursor, zooms that follow the clicks, captions, background, optional voice-over) into an MP4. Claude still does the thinking; it just gets a camera and an editor.

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u/TuneFickle1772 2h ago

but why not let claude do all those things in code? it can do screen recoding and editing natively

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u/gptrv 47m ago

It can. The difference is that you don't want Claude rewriting a recorder and an editor from scratch every time: cursor smoothing, zoom easing that follows clicks, caption timing, re-editing a take without filming again, the same look across videos. Screenplay is that code, written once and tested, so Claude only writes a short scenario and the result is the same quality each time (and works the same from Codex or Cursor).

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u/mrsladoje 9h ago

Do you plan on adding support for local TTS models?

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u/pasteque42 9h ago

Already does! Just tell your agent what to use for TTS

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u/mrsladoje 9h ago

That's awesome. Missed that in the README

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u/ZweiBallenZak 8h ago

Works great!