- Add an optional Review SKILL.md button beside the skill install/export actions. Open a read-only modal to inspect the complete file, including frontmatter and substituted values, before placing it.
- Keep the existing direct Add to Scout and export flow unchanged for users who do not want to review the file.
- Install or export the exact previewed text without another model turn. Closing and reopening the modal reuses the prepared file; editing the plan invalidates it.
- Keep modal and main-screen progress, errors and completion synchronized. Installing from the modal closes it and shows the same completed state as installing from the main interface.
- Support export-only skill destinations, accessible keyboard navigation, long scrollable files, retry after a canceled export, and explicit recovery from expired previews.
- Handle cancellation and late responses without reviving stale previews or hiding a successfully completed installation.
Skill Recorder by Microsoft
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 Autopilots like Scout, Microsoft Copilot Cowork, or Copilot Studio.
Agent builders and workflow automation
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 15, 2026Open source · MITFree to start
Recently added on Oct 15, 2026. The description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.
Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#10 in Automation
Gid Score 27 / 100 · #168 of 260 ranked AI agents
Trend
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about +4 GitHub stars a day
Development
Updated recently
latest 0.7.0, 30d ago
Community
4,253 GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 21, 2026, last checked Oct 21, 06:33 UTC. Date of each number
What Skill Recorder does
It is free and open source (MIT); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| First released | July 2026 |
| License | MIT |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 44 |
Pricing
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 15, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (MIT)
- Closest alternativen8n · all alternatives
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What changed: recent Skill Recorder releases
13 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- Fix Microsoft enterprise sign-in so it completes SSO first, then opens GitHub Copilot app authorization in the same default browser, without a device code. Keep the same browser profile to reuse…
- Make both browser handoffs explicit: after SSO reaches the Microsoft enterprise page, close that tab, return to Skill Recorder and choose Authorize Copilot. After authorization, return to Skill…
- Pin the bundled GitHub Copilot CLI to reviewed version 1.0.78, which supports browser OAuth for desktop subprocesses without a terminal. The previously bundled 1.0.71 does not support --web-flow.
- Run sign-in with --no-auto-update login --web-flow so the user's cached auto-updated CLI cannot change this behavior. Personal sign-in also uses browser authorization without device codes.
- Improve error guidance when the CLI does not support browser authorization or cannot save credentials securely. CLI output, tokens and authorization URLs are not exposed in app diagnostics.
- Preserve cancellation, fresh authentication verification and the once-only retry of an interrupted analysis.
Earlier releases
- Fix fresh Windows dependency installation using the bundled portable npm, including configuration detection when no global npm is installed.
- Preserve explicit npm settings. After a recognized public-registry network or TLS access failure, Windows retries dependency installation exactly once through an approved Microsoft registry only…
- Leave configured registries, successful public-registry installations, other-company devices, and unrelated failures unchanged.
- Share the bounded, sanitized tenant-hint probe with the app and improve error guidance to use bundled npm.
- Update the package version to 0.6.1 without dependency updates.
- TLS verification, lockfile integrity, dependency lifecycle-script policy, and compliance checks remain enforced. The device/account hint is a routing hint, not authorization or proof of employment.
- Adds an optional, session-scoped recorded terminal. Commands, working directories, exit status, timing, and output from that app-owned terminal can inform analysis and skill generation; existing…
- Offers Microsoft Enterprise SSO or a personal GitHub account when Windows device/account metadata provides a Microsoft Entra tenant hint. This is a routing hint, not proof of employment. Without a…
- Uses browser-based Copilot login without opening a lingering black terminal window. The Microsoft option opens enterprise SSO first, then asks the user to continue to Copilot authorization in the…
- Automatically retries the interrupted signed-out analysis once after the CLI finishes login and a fresh SDK client verifies authentication. Cancellation and navigation prevent stale retries;…
- Removes the legacy FFmpeg frame-extraction fallback.
- Includes the merged fast-uri 3.1.5 and js-yaml 4.3.1 dependency updates and preserves the GitHub Actions commit-SHA pins from main.
- Adds a persisted screen selector so recordings can target a specific display.
- Resolves displays through stable identity when Electron reassigns source IDs, shows monitor model labels, and falls back safely when a selected display is disconnected.
- Keeps the recorder controls at a stable width while their height is fitted automatically.
- Upgrades Archiver to 8 and refreshes transitive dependencies.
- Clarifies that transitive deprecation notices shown during source installation do not by themselves indicate an installation failure.
- The dependency refresh preserves the exact-version lifecycle-script allowlist and canonical registry.npmjs.org lockfile URLs.
- Fixes source installs failing with ERRSSLSSL/TLSALERTHANDSHAKEFAILURE on machines whose npm registry is configured globally, such as corporate-managed devices behind a proxy. The installers…
- Both installers now point the portable runtime at the machine's existing npm configuration, so a configured mirror is discovered automatically.
- npm ci failures now report which registry was actually contacted and how to configure a mirror.
- INSTALL.md documents the behaviour in a new "Networks that block registry.npmjs.org" section.
- The installers discover the registry configured on the machine; they never pin, override, or dictate one. A regression test enforces this.
- The lockfile's resolved URLs remain canonical registry.npmjs.org URLs, and its integrity hashes are verified whichever registry serves the packages, so a mirror cannot substitute different content.
Skill Recorder popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 4,253 stars, 240 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.7.0, published Sep 21, 2026; there were 1 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: skill-recorder.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community26
Attention—
Momentum53
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:33 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Skill Recorder FAQ
How much does Skill Recorder cost?
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Skill Recorder open source?
Yes. Skill Recorder is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Skill Recorder?
The GitHub repository has 4,253 stars, 240 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.7.0, published Sep 21, 2026; there were 1 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Skill Recorder?
The latest stable release we track is 0.7.0, published on Sep 21, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Skill Recorder?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are n8n, Dify, Flowise, AnythingLLM.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: microsoft/skill-recorder. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: github.com.