Summary
Anthropic’s Claude has shipped a new “Record a Skill” feature inside the Claude Codeex desktop app, and this video from The AI Advantage channel walks through how to use it and where it delivers real value. The feature lets users demonstrate a task on screen while narrating their decision-making — Claude watches, listens, and converts the recording into a reusable skill that can be triggered later with a slash command, with no prompt engineering or automation-flow building required.
The tutorial demonstrates two practical use cases: a YouTube video QA checklist (verifying playlist assignment, readable thumbnail text, chapter markers, and description placeholders) and an accounting workflow for handling invoices and updating spreadsheets. Key practical notes include keeping recordings tightly scoped to avoid confusing the model with extraneous screen content, not exposing sensitive information during recording, and a 10MB file size limit that rules out video file manipulation. The feature is desktop-app-only — it does not appear in the browser-based Claude Codeex interface — and the underlying browser automation runs on Claude Opus 4.8 regardless of which model is selected in the chat UI.
The video also briefly compares the capability to similar features in the Claude Chrome extension and OpenAI’s Codeex, positioning the “Record a Skill” approach as the lowest-friction path to automating recurring computer tasks for non-technical users.
📺 Source: The AI Advantage · Published July 24, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
