Instead of writing a prompt, you record your screen and narrate a workflow, and Claude turns the walkthrough into a reusable Skill it can rerun. It is landing in Claude Cowork for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers.
2026-07-22 · by Moe Ameen
Anthropic announced Record a Skill on July 21, 2026, a feature inside Claude Cowork — the agent mode of the Claude desktop app — that lets you teach Claude a task by demonstration instead of by prompt. You record your screen while completing a workflow yourself and explain your decisions aloud as you go; Claude watches the recording, learns the steps, and turns them into a reusable Skill it can run again later. It is rolling out to paid subscribers on the Pro, Max, and Team plans, reachable from the "+" menu in the desktop app under "Record a skill."
The framing Anthropic uses is "show, don't tell." Describing a multi-step process in words is slow and easy to get wrong; demonstrating it once is faster and more reliable. As you record, Claude captures the sequence of actions and the reasoning you narrate, then packages that into a named Skill. Invoke the Skill later and Claude reruns the task against the current inputs — the pitch is cutting the repetitive re-prompting that recurring work like weekly reports, spreadsheet reconciliation, and file organization otherwise demands.
The feature builds on two existing pieces of Claude: Skills, the packaged, reusable instruction sets Claude can load for a task, and Cowork, the agent that acts inside your files and applications rather than answering in a chat window. Record a Skill is the on-ramp that lets a non-technical user author a Skill by recording a walkthrough instead of writing one. It keeps Cowork's human-oversight posture — Claude shows what it will do and a person stays in control.
Worth being precise about scope: this is Claude learning a desktop workflow from a recording of you working, not a general capability to ingest any uploaded video and understand it, and not a media generator. The learned Skill automates steps on your computer; it does not render video, create images, or publish anything. Treat specifics and plan availability as a snapshot and confirm current status on Anthropic's pages.
There are two ways to act on this news with Kompozy, and both are concrete. The first is the timely play: "Claude can now learn a task by watching you do it" is a headline your audience is talking about right now. Drop your take into Kompozy and it fans one point of view into a blog explainer, a captioned short, a brand-exact carousel, and platform-native posts — all in your voice through the Persona Brief — then schedules and publishes them across nine platforms plus blog and email from one queue. That is the finished, on-brand output a learned desktop Skill can help you draft but never ships.
The second is the workflow play, and it is where Record a Skill and Kompozy compose cleanly rather than compete. Record yourself once doing your content-prep routine — assembling the week's sources into a single brief, cleaning a transcript, pulling the quotable lines — and Claude reruns it as a Skill to hand you a consistent brief every week. Kompozy picks up exactly where that brief lands: it generates the Persona and Clipped Shorts, the Carousel Posts and Quote Graphics, the Photo Posts, the Blog Article, and the Newsletter, then reframes and publishes the set on autopilot. Record a Skill automates the repeatable prep; Kompozy is the generation-and-publishing engine that turns that prep into a week of cross-platform content. A demonstrated routine on one end, published posts on the other.
Announced July 21, 2026, Record a Skill is a Claude Cowork feature that lets you teach Claude a task by recording your screen and narrating the steps. Claude turns the walkthrough into a reusable Skill it can run again. You start it from the "+" menu in the Claude desktop app.
It is rolling out to Anthropic's paid Claude plans — Pro, Max, and Team — through the desktop app. It builds on the existing Cowork agent and the Skills system, and availability widens as Anthropic ships, so confirm current access on Anthropic's site.
No. A learned Skill automates steps on your computer — reports, spreadsheets, document and file prep. It does not generate video or images or publish to any platform. To turn an idea or a Skill-produced brief into finished video, image, blog, and newsletter formats and schedule them across nine platforms, pair it with a content engine like Kompozy.
It is scoped to a recording of you performing a task on your own screen, narrated as you go, so Claude can learn and repeat that specific workflow. It is a demonstrate-then-automate tool for desktop work, not a general capability to ingest and understand arbitrary uploaded videos.