A screen recorder your coding agent can use

The reelbird command line tool and its MCP server drive the same engine as the app. Your agent can record a demo of the change it just made, export it and hand you the link.

Add it to your agent

The tool ships inside the app. reelbird mcp runs an MCP server over stdio.

Then ask it to "record a 20-second demo of the settings page you just changed and give me the share link".

Recording through an agent needs Screen Recording permission for the app that runs it, such as your terminal or editor.

Setup for Codex and Cursor

Claude Code

$ claude mcp add reelbird -- /Applications/Reelbird.app/Contents/Helpers/reelbird mcp

Codex

$ codex mcp add reelbird -- /Applications/Reelbird.app/Contents/Helpers/reelbird mcp

What the MCP server can do

Reelbird MCP tools
Tool	What it does
`list_sources`	Displays, windows, microphones and cameras, with IDs
`start_recording / stop_recording`	Record a display, window or area, optionally sharing while recording
`list_projects / project_info`	Recent takes and their details
`set_edit`	Zoom intensity, trims, crop, background, captions and more
`export`	MP4, HEVC, ProRes or GIF
`enhance_voice`	Render the enhanced voice track
`generate_captions`	On-device captions
`suggest_story`	Title and chapters (Apple Intelligence)
`detect_silences`	Find long pauses
`share / unshare`	Upload and return the link, or delete it

Or script it

Every command takes --json for machine-readable output and --library DIR for another folder. A project can be a path, a name from reelbird list, or latest.

Command line reference

$ reelbird sources
$ reelbird record --display 1 --duration 30
$ reelbird edit latest --set zoom.intensity=0.7 --trim 0:05-end
$ reelbird captions latest
$ reelbird export latest --format mp4 --height 1080
$ reelbird share latest --polished

Record your first take in a few minutes.

Clone the repo, run make install, and look for the robin in your menu bar. Mac only, macOS 15 or later, no Xcode needed.

Get Reelbird — free Source on GitHub