Why you'd want it
Skill Recorder captures a real work session on your screen: clicks, app and window switches, pages you visit, output from an optional recorded terminal, and optional spoken narration. When you click Analyze, GitHub Copilot reconstructs one intent and an ordered list of steps, which you can review and edit. From the approved analysis it generates a SKILL.md procedure or a scheduled automation, and the README says both prefer the agent's native tools, such as the gh CLI or web_fetch, over replaying UI clicks. A Review SKILL.md option shows the complete file text before you add or export it.
Best for
- Turning a task you did once into a SKILL.md
- Building scheduled automations from a demo
- Writing a workflow down as intent and ordered steps
Use it when
You do a repeatable task by hand on a desktop and want an agent to repeat it, and you have a GitHub account with Copilot access.
Skip it if
Choosing Analyze sends the event timeline (window titles, URLs, clipboard previews, terminal commands), screen images and narration text to GitHub's cloud, and the README says to keep passwords, tokens and API keys out of recordings, so pass on sensitive work or if you have no Copilot access. It is published as a source release that builds the app on your machine, and macOS is the primary target with Windows 11 also supported. The README says Review SKILL.md gives visibility into the generated instructions, not a security guarantee, so read a generated skill before an agent runs it.
Editor's note
There is no prebuilt installer: the release page carries a commit-pinned command per OS (Windows 11 PowerShell, or macOS and Ubuntu terminal) that builds the app locally, plus inspect-first instructions. The README says to copy it from the release page, not from the technical docs.