Skill Recorder Review: Record a Task, Get a SKILL.md

Key highlights:

• 3,336 GitHub stars, 337 forks, 33 open issues

• MIT licensed, TypeScript + Electron, created 2026-07-29 — about three weeks old

• Latest release v0.5.0 (2026-08-12), roughly one release a week

• Source-only releases — no installers, no binaries; the install script builds a pinned commit locally

• Requires a GitHub account with Copilot access; the Copilot CLI ships with the app

Agent skills won 2026. We covered [Superpowers](https://andrew.ooo/posts/superpowers-agentic-skills-framework-claude-code/), [Matt Pocock's skill set](https://andrew.ooo/posts/matt-pocock-skills-claude-code-review/), a [skill management layer](https://andrew.ooo/posts/openspace-skill-management-layer-ai-agents-review/), and a [security scanner for skills](https://andrew.ooo/posts/skillspector-nvidia-ai-agent-skill-security-scanner-review/). All of them assume the same thing: a human sits down and writes the SKILL.md.

That's the bottleneck nobody was attacking. Writing a good skill means knowing the procedure well enough to describe it in imperative prose, knowing which tools the agent has, and knowing which parts of your one example generalize. Most people who own a repetitive process — the ops person, the analyst, the person doing the weekly report — can do the task fluently and cannot write that document at all.

Skill Recorder inverts the input. You do the task. It writes the document.

The primary signal source is not video. It's cheap OS events:

- App and window switches — which application was focused, and the window title

- Clipboard previews — short snippets of copied text, which are what tie two steps together

Skill Recorder runs two distinct Copilot agents with separate system prompts and tool sets.

The describer answers "what did the user actually do?" Its tools read the recording:

Everything speaks one clock: atMs, milliseconds since you hit Start. A small decision that removes a whole class of off-by-one bugs between video offsets and event timestamps.

This is a condensed version. The full article includes architecture diagrams, code examples, comparison tables, and practical use cases.

👉 Read the complete analysis on andrew.ooo

Topics: skill-recorder, microsoft, agent-skills, github-copilot, copilot-cli