Anthropic adds screen-recorded task training to Claude Cowork

Anthropic has added a “Record a skill” feature to Claude Cowork, letting users teach the assistant a desktop task by recording their screen while explaining the work by voice. The company did not announce separate pricing for the feature; it said access is available to Claude users on the Pro, Max and Team plans.

The feature sits in the “+” menu inside Cowork, the workspace area of the Claude desktop app, according to a post from Claude on X. A user completes a task once while the app captures screen activity, including clicks and typing, along with spoken narration. Claude Cowork then turns that recording into a saved skill that can be reused when the same task comes up again.

Anthropic’s pitch is narrower than broad “agent” language: the assistant is being trained on a specific workflow the user has already performed. If it works as described, the value is in reducing repeated manual steps for routine office work, rather than asking Claude to infer a process from a written prompt alone.

The company did not provide performance data, error rates or examples of supported applications in the announcement. It also did not say whether recorded skills can be shared across a Team account, edited after creation, governed by admins or exported. Those omissions matter for workplace deployment, where repeatability, permissions and auditability determine whether a workflow feature stays as a personal convenience or becomes part of operating process.

Screen-recorded task learning is becoming a recognizable pattern among AI productivity tools. OpenAI offers a comparable capability in Codex, which can observe a workflow and replay it later as a reusable skill. Anthropic’s version brings the idea into Claude’s desktop environment and frames it around Cowork, rather than code-centric workflows alone.

For Anthropic, the release fits a product direction in which Claude is less a chat box and more a persistent assistant that can retain procedural knowledge. For customers, the unresolved questions are practical: which workflows are reliable enough to automate, how mistakes are surfaced, and whether saved skills can be managed with the controls businesses expect.

Anthropic has not disclosed how many Claude Cowork users it has, how many customers are on the eligible plans, or whether the new feature will be made available to other tiers. The announcement is a feature expansion, not a funding event or a pricing change, but it shows the competitive pressure around assistants that can watch work once and repeat it later.

This story draws on original reporting from The Decoder.