Now, you can fully distill yourself into a skill by using screen recording combined with voice narration.
On July 21, Anthropic added a “Record a Skill” option to the + menu in the Claude desktop Cowork app: record your screen while performing actions and explaining them aloud; after recording, Claude automatically converts the demonstration into a reusable Skill.
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2079595988998554047
This feature is currently available to Pro, Max, and Team users.
Firsthand test: It actually works
We conducted a preliminary test of this feature as soon as possible.
Open the Claude client, click the 【+】 in the bottom-left corner of the chat box -> Skills -> Manage skills -> Add -> Record your screen to start using this new feature.
Be sure to avoid entering sensitive personal information such as plaintext passwords, keys, API keys, or credit card details during screen recording.
You may need to grant screen recording and microphone permissions for the first time; after allowing them, click [Start Recording] to begin recording.
Simply repeat your full workflow on your computer, verbally supplementing the necessary implicit operational logic, while avoiding unrelated actions (such as watching a short video to take a break while waiting for results). Clicking end recording will automatically return you to the Claude Cowork interface for analysis and skill extraction.
After a short wait, your custom Skill will be ready—click [Save Skill] to deploy it directly to Claude.
Use slash commands (/) in chat to activate this Skill.
No unnecessary fine-tuning—your custom Skill is ready to use right out of the box.
Far more than just an efficiency enhancement tool
Most reports classify "Record a Skill" (screen recording to generate a Skill) as a way to "easily create automation workflows," but this understanding remains superficial.
Previously, creating a Skill required manually writing a SKILL.md file, using Markdown to clearly outline the steps, trigger conditions, and metadata.
Non-technical personnel must think like process designers to accomplish this.
The challenge lies in translating implicit experience into explicit instructions.
And now, "Record a Skill" skips the translation step.
It simultaneously captures screen actions and voice commentary, with the latter being crucial: the operator naturally reveals their decision-making logic during the explanation—what situations to skip, which formats are mandatory for clients, and which numbers are unusual and require manual review.
These steps are difficult to document in a manual, but can be fully captured in a screen recording.
"Record a Skill" skips the step of "writing."
For decades, enterprises have spent millions building knowledge bases, writing SOPs, and creating best-practice libraries—but the core issue has always been the same: experts refuse to document, and even when they do, no one maintains it.
The barrier to creating screen recordings is an order of magnitude lower than writing documentation, and the resulting skills are readable by humans and directly executable by AI.
The other side of screen recording
Tech media MakeUseOf reported a case in March this year:
A freelance writer set up a content generation workflow using Claude Cowork during their offboarding transition, feeding in brand documents, style guides, and past articles, and outputting a monthly content calendar via the Skill process.
When handing over, the customer said:
Since you're leaving, can you set this up so we can run it ourselves?
A five-year partnership has been replaced by a Skill folder.
https://www.makeuseof.com/claude-cowork-automated-away-job/
This story took place before "Record a Skill" launched, when skills were still written by hand.
Screen recording further reduces the cost of performing the same task: no need to understand Markdown or abstract workflows—just do it once and explain it once.
Research data from Harvard Business School in March 2026 serves as further evidence: job postings for roles with the highest AI exposure decreased by 17%, while postings for roles requiring human-AI collaboration increased by 22%.
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/25-039_05fbec84-1f23-459b-8410-e3cd7ab6c88a.pdf
But "Record a Skill" clearly shifts the direction: the moat of work has moved from "being able to do it" to "being able to do what others cannot."
Reference: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2079595988998554047
This article is from the WeChat public account "New Intelligence Yuan," authored by ASI Revelation; edited by Marco.