wtf is skill-recorder?

Skill Recorder is a desktop app from Microsoft that turns a task you do once into a procedure an AI agent can repeat on its own. You record yourself performing a task on screen, including which apps you switch between, the pages you visit, and optionally your spoken narration explaining what you are doing. The app then sends that recording to GitHub Copilot, which works out what you were actually trying to accomplish and writes it up as a clear goal plus an ordered list of steps. Once you review and approve that reconstructed sequence, Skill Recorder can turn it into a Skill, a written procedure an agent can run whenever asked, or an Automation, the same procedure running on a schedule or trigger instead. Both are designed to prefer an agent's own tools, like command line utilities or web requests, over literally replaying your mouse clicks, and both are meant to generalize, so recording yourself filling out one form once can teach the agent to fill out similar forms later. Recording, video storage, and narration transcription all happen on your own computer, and nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to analyze a session. At that point, the event timeline, window and page titles, extracted screen images, and any narration text are sent to GitHub's cloud for Copilot to process. The app repeatedly warns you not to record passwords, tokens, or other sensitive information during a session. Installation works by downloading a pinned version of the source code and building it directly on your machine using a single install command, rather than downloading a prebuilt app. It requires a GitHub account with Copilot access. macOS is the main supported platform, with Windows 11 also supported. It is released under the MIT license.