Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

AI use cases Agent skills & MCP Turn recorded work into reusable agent skills

Turn recorded work into reusable agent skills

Record how you do a task on screen and turn it into a reusable skill or automation for an AI agent. Example prompts, workflow and tools.

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3
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Reviewed
16 Oct

For: Developers · Small business

Best-scored tools for this jobscore, safety
  1. 1SuperpowersAgent skill62No dependencies scanned
  2. 2Agent SkillsAgent skill53No issues found
  3. 3skill-recorderAI tool22No issues found
What the score and shapes mean

Score = public maintenance, adoption and docs signals, as a percentile of 52 tools. Nobody here tested these hands-on. Shapes are the separate safety label: No issues found, No dependencies scanned, Caution.

What it does for you

People who know a process well but have not written it down, including non-developers.

  • Capture a desktop workflow once and draft a skill from it
  • Document internal processes as agent-readable steps
  • Share a task with a teammate as a skill instead of a video
  • Compare a recorded workflow with what an agent does
  • Create a first draft you refine by hand
More about this job

Writing instructions for a process you do by habit is hard. Recording a session and generating a draft skill from it gives you something to edit rather than a blank page.

Workflow in 5 steps

  1. Close private windows and notifications.
  2. Record one clean run of the task, narrating the decisions.
  3. Generate the draft skill and read it fully.
  4. Remove personal data and fix steps the tool guessed wrong.
  5. Test it on a fresh example before sharing it.
Full steps
  1. Close private windows and notifications; a recording captures everything on screen.
  2. Record one clean run of the task, narrating the decisions.
  3. Generate the draft skill and read it fully.
  4. Remove personal data and fix steps the tool guessed wrong.
  5. Test it on a fresh example before sharing it.

Prompts to copy

Starting points we wrote, not tested results.

Here is a draft skill generated from my recording. Rewrite it so each step is one clear action and add a step that checks the result.

2 more prompts

List every place in this skill where it assumes a specific file path, account or screen size.

What could go wrong in each step, and what should the agent do if it happens?

Watch out for

  • Prompts sent to a hosted model leave your machine.
  • Keep API keys, tokens and customer data out of prompts and out of files the agent can read.
  • Treat AI changes like a pull request from a new colleague: read the diff, run the tests and keep a human sign-off before anything ships.
  • Screen recordings can contain passwords, customer data and private messages.
  • Licence to check before commercial use: Agent Skills (Apache-2.0 + proprietary).
  • No dependencies scannedSuperpowersCode checks clean, no lockfile to check
  • No issues foundAgent SkillsNo issues found in this week’s scan
  • No issues foundskill-recorderNo issues found in this week’s scan
Why these warnings?
  • Prompts sent to a hosted model leave your machine. For confidential material use a local model or check the provider's data terms first.
  • Keep API keys, tokens and customer data out of prompts and out of files the agent can read. Use a separate, low-privilege key for any agent.
  • Treat AI changes like a pull request from a new colleague: read the diff, run the tests and keep a human sign-off before anything ships.
  • Screen recordings can contain passwords, customer data and private messages. Review and delete the raw recording after use.
  • Superpowers: code and instruction-file checks found nothing, but there is no runtime lockfile or manifest, so dependencies were not checked

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Sources for tool facts

obra/superpowers · anthropics/skills · microsoft/skill-recorder. Data fetched 2 Nov 2026. Scores and labels are automated, relative and not a hands-on test.

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