Claude's Record-a-Skill cut my research from hours to 30 minutes - but the magic has limits
I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Claude's Record-a-Skill cut my research from hours to 30 minutes - but the magic has limits I used Claude Cowork to automate a workflow, and the result was remarkably effective, but it exposed four drawbacks. Claude turns narrated screen recordings into reusable skills. Last month, Anthropic announced a new Claude Cowork feature: the ability to narrate a screen recording and turn it into a Claude skill . I tried it and, well, as they say, All magic comes with a price. Let's set the stage by defining what we're after here. A skill is a very detailed canned prompt that can be run like a program from within Claude (and many other AIs).
Aug-10-2026, 12:42:01 GMT
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