show-your-work

Yes, Claude Code can show images in the terminal with the show-your-work plugin. Once it's installed, Claude shows screenshots, designs, charts and other images right in the chat. It works in terminals that support the kitty graphics protocol, like Ghostty and Warp.

Yes, Claude Code can play videos in the terminal with the show-your-work plugin. It plays screen recordings, animations, ads and launch videos inside the Claude Code chat. It comes with a feature-rich video player, with scrubbing, skip controls, clickable timestamps and side-by-side comparisons.

You can see what Claude Code built by installing the show-your-work plugin. Whenever Claude builds or changes something visual, it takes a screenshot or records it and shows you the result in the chat. You don't have to switch to a browser and find the page yourself.

Yes, Claude Code can test your app and show you a recording with the show-your-work plugin. Claude tests the features it builds with Playwright, records each run and plays the recording in the chat. The steps are listed beside the video with timestamps. Each check turns green or red as the video reaches it.

Yes, Claude Code can show you a before and after of a change or bug fix with the show-your-work plugin. Claude records the same Playwright steps on the old version and the new one. Compare plays both recordings side by side, in sync. Each test check turns green or red as the video reaches it.

Yes, show-your-work is a Claude Code plugin for visual QA. It records Claude's Playwright test runs and plays them in the chat. Each recording comes with clickable change markers and checks that turn green or red as the video plays. For a change or bug fix, it plays the before and after side by side, in sync.

The easiest way to check that Claude Code actually fixed a bug is to have it record the fix with show-your-work. Ask Claude to fix the bug and show you the before and after. The old and new versions play side by side, in sync, with the checks that now pass marked in green.

show-your-work goes beyond viewing images in the terminal. Its main strength is visual QA. It plays synced before-and-after Playwright recordings, lists the changes you can click to jump to, and turns each check green or red as the video plays. You can review a feature or a fix without leaving Claude Code.

No, show-your-work barely uses any extra tokens, because it's built from the ground up to be both token and memory efficient. Images and videos are drawn straight into your terminal with the kitty graphics protocol, without using any tokens. Videos are also decoded and streamed efficiently, so very little memory is used.

The show-your-work plugin works in terminals that support the kitty graphics protocol, like Ghostty and Warp, on macOS, Linux and Windows.

Yes, show-your-work is free and open source under the MIT license.

No, you don't need to update it yourself. The plugin updates itself, so you're never left behind. You can choose between Stable and Latest releases during the onboarding, or any time with /show-your-work.

You can see the onboarding again by running /show-your-work tour. It covers recordings, before and after, version history and the settings.

No, it doesn't take up much space. It keeps recent pictures and videos so you can flip back through them, and clears out the oldest once they add up to about 1 GB.

You choose whether to share anonymous usage data. You can make that choice during the onboarding, or change it any time with /show-your-work. It never collects any sensitive data whatsoever. The details are in the Privacy policy.

Here's everything the plugin does on your computer, so you know exactly what you're installing. Your pictures and videos never leave your machine.

To get pictures and videos ready, it uses ffmpeg and ffprobe (turning a video into frames and reading its length) and, on macOS, sips (converting a picture to PNG). When you press View, Show in Finder or Save to Downloads, it opens the file with open on macOS or xdg-open on Linux. On macOS, mdfind helps /img find an image you pasted, and inside tmux it asks tmux whether pictures can get through.

A few short scripts run with sh and perl. They find ffmpeg and your home folder, read the terminal's cell size so pictures fit, tidy the plugin's temp folder, open a viewer on Linux, and switch between the Stable and Latest channels. It also uses cp, mkdir, rm, cat and touch for its own temp files, and claude plugin to install its own updates from this repository, at most once a day. You can turn updates off. The updater will be turned off after the plugin moves to the Claude Code plugin directory, which keeps it up to date instead.

It keeps these files:

• Video frames and converted pictures go in a temp folder ($TMPDIR/claude-show-your-work-<your user id>), and anything older than a week is cleaned up.
• A copy of each file Claude shows you goes in .show-your-work/ in your project, so you can look back through versions.
• Save to Downloads puts a copy in ~/Downloads.
• Turn on pictures adds one line to your shell profile (see Terminals), and turning it off takes the line back out.
• With SHOW_YOUR_WORK_DEBUG=1, it writes a debug.log in the temp folder.

Once a day it reads the plugin's latest version number from raw.githubusercontent.com.

If Usage data is set to share in /show-your-work, it sends anonymous usage counts to us.i.posthog.com. These are event names and counts, plus the plugin and Claude Code versions, your terminal, your OS and whether ffmpeg is installed, under a random install id. They never include file names, paths, prompts, anything you type or your IP address. The key in the code is PostHog's public key, which can only send events.

Inside Claude Code, it uses these hooks:

• prompt.compose adds one short line to Claude's instructions, telling it this terminal can show pictures (or why it can't). It only does this when the plugin's tools are available.
• prompt.submit closes the settings when you send a message and remembers the names of images you paste, so /img can find them. Your message isn't changed.
• tool.call handles the plugin's own show_image and show_video tools. It never touches other tools.
• command.run runs /img and /show-your-work. Right after you install, it runs /show-your-work tour once to show you around.
• ui.render draws the plugin's player, notices, settings and tour.
• session.start and session.end set up the temp folder and terminal at the start, and send any waiting usage counts at the end.

The plugin gives Claude two tools, show_image and show_video. A basic call needs only a path. For a before and after, Claude also passes the old file and the test results:

{
  "path": "qa/after.webm",          // the run on the fixed version
  "compare": "qa/before.webm",      // the same steps on the old version
  "title": "Pricing page",
  "url": "http://localhost:3000/pricing",
  "changes": [                      // what changed, and the second it shows up
    { "title": "Annual toggle sets prices", "at": 3.2 },
    { "title": "Plan buttons line up", "at": 5.4 }
  ],
  "summary": [                      // the test results, at most three lines
    { "label": "Billing: toggle works", "ok": true, "passed": 1, "total": 1 },
    { "label": "Layout: plans, buttons", "ok": true, "passed": 3, "total": 3 }
  ]
}

Videos are cut into frames at up to 12 per second, at the width the window shows them (at most 2400 px), with a cap of 3,600 frames (five minutes at full rate). To open a file yourself, run /img path/to/file.png.

To work on the plugin, edit the modules in hooks/ (register.tsx is the entry) and run /reload-plugins to load your changes. Before sending a change, run claude plugin validate . and claude plugin test ..