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    microsoft/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 for Microsoft Autopilots like Scout, Microsoft Copilot Cowork, or Copilot Studio.

    ai-agents
    automation
    agent-skills
    copilot
    copilot-cli
    copilot-cowork
    copilot-studio
    TypeScript
    MIT
    5.6K stars
    644 forks
    5.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 2, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 6 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Records desktop work sessions and uses GitHub Copilot SDK to convert them into reusable AI agent skills or automations.
    • Enables creation of generalized, native-tool-based skills from a single recorded example, avoiding fragile UI replay.
    • Use for automating repetitive desktop tasks by recording and converting them into AI-executable skills.
    • Use for building scheduled or triggered automations for Microsoft Autopilots like Scout or Copilot Studio.
    • Use for capturing narrated workflows with terminal commands to generate clear, editable procedural documentation.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Record yourself doing a task once, then turn it into a skill your AI agent can repeat.

    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:

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Excerpt from the microsoft/skill-recorder README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Oct 27: +160Oct 28: +139Oct 29: +120Oct 30: +63Oct 31: +29Nov 1: +22Nov 2: +32Nov 3: +17

    +582 stars over 8 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +160 on Oct 27.

    Forks

    644+89

    Open issues

    49+3

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