skill-recorder

Skill-recorder watches you do a task once and turns it into a skill your AI agent can repeat. It's a Microsoft desktop app that records your screen session (window switches, URLs, optional spoken narration), then uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct what you did as an intent plus ordered steps, packaged as a reusable skill file or a scheduled automation. MIT licensed and free.

The smart design choice is that it generalizes instead of replaying. Show it one form submission and it writes a procedure for handling forms, reaching for native tools like the GitHub CLI instead of scripting browser clicks. Recording and Whisper transcription stay on your machine, but hitting Analyze ships window titles, URLs, clipboard previews, and screenshots to GitHub's cloud. The README tells you flat out not to record credentials. That warning is honest, and it also rules out most real admin workflows.

This only makes sense inside Microsoft's agent ecosystem. The output targets Microsoft Scout, Copilot Cowork, and Copilot Studio, and you need GitHub Copilot access to run the analysis. If you live in that stack, install it. If you don't, the skills it produces have nowhere to go.

The catch: the recorder is free, the destinations aren't. Copilot Cowork needs a Microsoft 365 Copilot license at $30/user/mo plus usage billing, and the app is weeks old. MIT on the recorder doesn't buy portability of the result.