Claude's Record-a-Skill Cut My Research from Hours to 30 Minutes – But the Magic Has Limits
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork now lets users narrate screen recordings to create reusable skills. A journalist used this feature to build a skill that aggregates expert responses from HARO and Qwoted, slashing research time from a day to 30 minutes, but noted high usage costs, slow computer control, and fragile execution.
The Record-a-Skill feature in Claude Desktop turns narrated screen recordings into reusable skills. The author created a skill to sift through expert responses from HARO and Qwoted, which normally takes a full day, and got the task done in about 30 minutes. However, the process has drawbacks: it consumes a lot of Claude's usage limits (even on the $100/month Max plan), computer control is very slow, Claude can dominate the machine causing mistakes, and it sometimes fails to notice errors, getting stuck and still consuming usage. Despite these issues, the author is impressed with the quality of the generated skills.
- Abbreviations
- HARO = Help A Reporter Out — Помогите репортеру (сервис связи журналистов с экспертами)
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