Skill Recorder
Desktop app that records your on-screen work session and uses the GitHub Copilot SDK to reconstruct it as an intent + ordered steps, then builds a reusable Skill or Automation…
Install
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skill-recorderInstall command taken from the project's README or registry entry. Always review code before running it.
README excerpt
Read full README on GitHub →Skill Recorder
Record yourself doing a task once, then turn it into a skill your AI agent can repeat.
[!TIP] Want to install Skill Recorder? Go to the latest release. Scroll to Commit-pinned installation and copy the complete command for your operating system. It is ready to paste: you do not need to edit it or download the source code yourself. Step-by-step instructions below.
Skill Recorder captures a real work session on your screen: the clicks, the app and window switches, the pages you visit, commands/output from its optional recorded terminal, and (if you want) your spoken narration. It then uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct what you actually did as a clear intent plus an ordered list of steps. From there, one step turns that single run into something an agent can reuse:
- a Skill: a
SKILL.mdprocedure an agent runs on demand, or - an Automation: the same procedure on a schedule or trigger.
Both prefer the agent's native tools (like the gh CLI or web_fetch) over replaying
UI clicks, and generalize from your one example, so recording yourself submitting one
form can teach the agent to submit all of them.
How it works
- 🔴 Record. Hit record (or
⌘⇧R/Ctrl+Shift+Rfrom anywhere) and just do your task. Skill Recorder captures your screen and activity locally, in the background. - 🎛️ Control. While recording, a small always-on-top bar shows capture, microphone, and recorded-terminal state. Open the session-scoped terminal, mute, unmute, or switch mics, then finish or discard with confirmation.
- 🧠 Analyze. Click Analyze and GitHub Copilot reconstructs one overall intent and an ordered list of steps. Review and edit until it reads right.
- ✨ Create. From an approved analysis, generate a reusable Skill and/or a scheduled Automation.
For skills, Review SKILL.md optionally shows the complete, read-only file text (including frontmatter) before installation or export. Preparing a preview writes no skill files. Close and reopen it without regenerating; Add/Export from either surface uses that exact preview. Editing the plan discards the preview. You can still choose Add/Export directly without reviewing or adding a confirmation step. Review provides visibility into the generated instructions, not a security guarantee.
Get started
Skill Recorder is published as a source release: one command downloads a pinned Node.js runtime, builds the exact release commit on your machine, and adds a Skill Recorder (Source) app you can relaunch anytime. Nothing is installed globally. You'll need a GitHub account with Copilot access; the Copilot CLI ships with the app.
macOS is the primary target. Windows 11 (x64 and ARM64) is supported too (see
WINDOWS-VALIDATION.md).
Install it
Open the latest release and follow these steps:
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