# Skill Recorder (open-source AI desktop app)

> Skill Recorder is a free, open-source AI desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. 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. It has 4,202 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license.

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:

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/microsoft/skill-recorder |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 4,202 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | yes (published by the project behind the app) |
| Category | AI desktop apps |
| Latest release | v0.7.0 (Sep 21, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 21, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/microsoft/skill-recorder/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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