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🎬 Demo Director

Turn an AI agent into a product presenter. Demo Director is an MCP server that gives Claude (or any MCP client) everything it needs to record a keynote-quality demo video of your app — completely hands-free:

• 📹 Native screen recording — macOS screencapture, full screen / display / region

• 🖱️ Presenter-grade cursor — a native Swift CGEvent driver that glides the real mouse along smooth, eased, slightly-curved paths; human-rhythm typing; momentum scrolling

• 🌐 Chrome direction — DevTools Protocol control with a clean demo profile: navigate, cinematic in-page scrolling, and the killer feature — resolve any CSS selector to screen coordinates so the real cursor glides to real UI

• 💡 Keynote effects — spotlight (dim everything but the feature) and pulse highlights

• 🗣️ Natural voiceover — first-class Voicebox integration: voice-clone narration generated sentence-by-sentence with drifting seeds, jittered punctuation-based pauses, soft procedural in-breaths, and −16 LUFS loudness — then compose_final_video muxes it into the finished MP4 in one call. Falls back to macOS say when Voicebox isn't running; live say narration for real-time pacing

• 🧠 A master-presenter skill — a playbook that teaches the agent to understand your app first, write an Apple-style beat sheet, rehearse off camera, then roll

Tell Claude “record a demo of my app” — it reads your codebase, learns what the app does, writes the story, and presents it feature by feature like it's on stage.

Zero npm dependencies. Pure Node 22+ (built-in fetch + WebSocket), one small Swift file compiled on first run.

macOS only for now. Linux/Windows drivers are welcome — see Contributing.

Related MCP server: windows-computer-use-mcp

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/jayadevrana/demo-director
cd demo-director
npm run check          # doctor: builds the cursor helper, verifies ffmpeg/Chrome

Requirements:

• macOS, Node ≥ 22, Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install)

• ffmpeg (narration assembly + muxing): brew install ffmpeg

• Permissions for your terminal / Claude app in System Settings → Privacy & Security: Screen Recording and Accessibility

• Optional but recommended: the Voicebox app running locally (server Online, default http://127.0.0.1:17493, override with VOICEBOX_URL) for natural voice-clone narration — without it, narration falls back to macOS say

Register with Claude Code

claude mcp add demo-director -- node /absolute/path/to/demo-director/server.js

Or in .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "demo-director": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/demo-director/server.js"]
    }
  }
}

Install the presenter skill

cp -r skills/demo-director ~/.claude/skills/

The skill is what turns raw tools into a performance: product research → beat sheet → rehearsal → recording → final cut.

Try it

Ask Claude:

Record a 60-second demo of my app at http://localhost:3000. Present it like an Apple keynote — feature by feature, with narration.

What happens:

1. Claude reads your app's code and explores it in a throwaway Chrome profile.

2. It writes a beat sheet — hook, 3–6 feature beats with narration lines, finale (see examples/beat-sheet.example.json).

3. It rehearses every selector and action off camera.

4. start_recording → for each beat: glide the cursor to the real element, click, type at human speed, scroll at reading pace, spotlight the moment. → stop_recording.

5. compose_final_video — every beat's narration is rendered in your chosen Voicebox voice (humanized: varied takes, pauses, breaths) and muxed over the recording. The deliverable is a finished MP4 with voiceover.

Tools

How it works

Claude (MCP client)
   │  stdio JSON-RPC
   ▼
server.js ── src/rpc.js          minimal MCP implementation, no SDK
   ├─ src/recorder.js            screencapture -v (SIGINT to stop)
   ├─ src/mouse.js ─▶ native/cursor  Swift CGEvent driver (compiled on first use
   │                                 to ~/.demo-director/bin — smooth bezier moves,
   │                                 pixel momentum scroll, unicode typing)
   ├─ src/chrome.js              CDP over built-in WebSocket; dedicated profile in
   │                             ~/.demo-director/chrome-profile
   ├─ src/narrate.js             say + ffmpeg adelay/amix/loudnorm + compose_final_video
   └─ src/voicebox.js            Voicebox REST client: per-sentence generation with
                                 drifting seeds, jittered pauses, synthesized breaths,
                                 click-free joins, -16 LUFS master

The trick that makes demos feel human: the agent asks Chrome where an element is on the physical screen (chrome_locate accounts for window position and browser chrome), then drives the real macOS cursor to it. Viewers see an actual hand at work, not DOM events firing invisibly.

Troubleshooting

• screencapture exited immediately → grant Screen Recording to your terminal / Claude app, then restart it.

• Cursor doesn't move / clicks ignored → grant Accessibility permission.

• chrome_locate clicks land off-target → set Chrome page zoom to 100 % (⌘0) and don't move the window mid-demo; re-chrome_locate after any scroll.

• Node < 22 → upgrade; the server needs the built-in WebSocket client.

• Recording is black / clicks do nothing mid-shoot → the display went to sleep. Keep it awake for long takes by driving under caffeinate -dims ….

• Clicks land on the wrong window → the app window must be the frontmost application, not just visible; a real click hits whatever owns that pixel. Raise the target window first (osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to activate').

• Long recording never saved → fixed: stop_recording now waits up to 3 min for screencapture to finalize a multi-minute file before giving up.

• Narration missing from the video → by design: live say audio isn't captured. Use render_narration + mux_narration for the final cut.

Contributing

PRs welcome — especially:

• Linux driver (xdotool/ydotool + wf-recorder/ffmpeg x11grab)

• Windows driver (SendInput + Windows.Graphics.Capture)

• Webcam picture-in-picture, click-ripple overlays, auto-zoom on click

• Firefox/Safari support (WebDriver BiDi)

License

MIT

Author

Built by Jayadev Rana — @bluealgocapital · YouTube · GitHub