skill-recorder
Desktop app that records your on-screen work session and uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct it as an intent + ordered steps, then builds a reusable Skill or Automation for Microsoft Scout, Microsoft Copilot Cowork, or Copilot Studio.
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Oct 2026
Skill Recorder watches you do a task once and turns it into a skill an AI agent can repeat. It's a free, MIT-licensed Microsoft desktop app: hit record, do the work (narrate if you like), and the GitHub Copilot CLI rebuilds it as an intent plus ordered steps, then writes a reusable SKILL.md or a scheduled automation.
There's no installer. Releases are source-only: a pasted command fetches a pinned Node runtime and builds the app on your machine, macOS first, with Windows 11 and Ubuntu supported. Recording and Whisper transcription stay local. Clicking Analyze sends window titles, URLs, clipboard previews, terminal commands, screenshots and narration to GitHub's cloud.
Skills install directly into Scout, Microsoft's Autopilot agent, or export for Copilot Cowork or any skill-capable agent. Copilot Studio is still marked coming soon. Solo and small teams: free, with a Copilot plan for the analysis (Pro is $10/month). Larger Microsoft shops: the real bill is Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30/user/month paid yearly, plus usage-based Cowork.
The catch: nothing has hit main since 0.7.0 on September 21 and it's still a pre-1.0 experiment. The README also warns against recording passwords or tokens, which rules out a lot of real admin work.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree: The app, MIT licensed, for macOS (primary target), Windows 11 x64/ARM64 and Ubuntu. Recording, frame extraction and optional Whisper narration transcription run on your machine (one-time ~252 MB model download).
Self-hosted: Releases are source-only. A commit-pinned script downloads a pinned Node.js runtime and builds the app locally; no prebuilt installers. It bundles Copilot CLI 1.0.78, and analysis needs a GitHub account with Copilot access: Free $0 (includes Copilot CLI), Pro $10/user/month with $15 monthly credits, Pro+ $39, Business $19/user/month, Enterprise $39/user/month. CLI usage consumes GitHub AI Credits.
Paid: No paid tier for the recorder. The cost sits downstream: Cowork skills need Microsoft 365 Copilot, $30.00/user/month paid yearly as the enterprise add-on or $21/user/month paid yearly as the Business add-on ($18 promotional through Dec 31, 2026), and Cowork itself is billed usage-based on top.
The recorder is free. The bill lives in the Copilot plan behind the analysis and, for Cowork skills, Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30/user/month paid yearly plus usage.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free; needs a GitHub account with Copilot access
- Small team
- free recorder; Copilot Pro at $10/month or Business at $19/user/month for the analysis
- Medium team
- free recorder; budget Copilot Business plus Microsoft 365 Copilot if skills go to Cowork
- Large team
- free recorder; Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30/user/month paid yearly plus Cowork usage is where the bill lands
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