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Claude Code's Creator Reveals Every Level of AI (and How to Level Up)
A viral Boris Cherny tweet mapped five stages of Claude Code adoption — this breakdown turns the jargon into a pizzeria anyone can picture.
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Claude's Record a Skill feature turns a narrated screen recording into a reusable automation, letting anyone convert a repeated manual task into a one-command workflow without writing prompts, code, or rules.
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- You already use Claude (Cowork, Claude.ai, or Claude Code) and have a task you repeat weekly or daily that isn't hard, just tedious.
- You've avoided building automations before because you don't code and don't want to learn a no-code tool's rules and syntax.
- You want a concrete, unedited example of what a recorded Claude skill actually produces end-to-end, not just the feature announcement.
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- You need enterprise-grade reliability or an audit trail — this is an early, single-user demo, not a production automation pipeline.
- You're looking for a coding tutorial — this video has no code, by design.
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Claude Cowork's new Record a Skill feature lets a user complete a task once on screen while narrating what they're doing and why, and Claude converts that recording into a repeatable skill it can run again on command. The video demonstrates two live builds: teaching Claude to browse competitor YouTube channels and flag outlier-performing videos into a ranked HTML report, and teaching it to place a specific food order on Uber Eats. Both took one recorded demonstration, no code, and no written prompt. The presenter argues this shifts AI automation from writing exhaustive instructions toward simply showing Claude the work, since the model now infers most of the process itself.
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00:00 – 01:17
01 · Intro
Cold open pitching Record a Skill as the biggest recent Claude release; shows Anthropic's own announcement post.
01:17 – 02:30
02 · How powerful this idea really is
Frames the shift from Claude Code's manual coding, to prompts/CLAUDE.md/MCPs, to now just showing Claude a task once.
02:30 – 03:41
03 · The top 10 use cases
Rundown of the most common early uses: invoicing, lead intake, client onboarding, social content batching, inbox triage, weekly reporting, competitor monitoring, bookkeeping, publishing.
03:41 – 05:03
04 · Setting up Record a Skill
Opens Cowork, picks a model, clicks Record a Skill; walks through Anthropic's sensitive-data warning before recording starts.
05:03 – 11:06
05 · Live build 1: YouTube outlier research
Records himself browsing competitor channels (Nick Saraev, Nate Herk, Jack Roberts, Miles Deutscher, Austin Marchese) and keyword searches, narrating the outlier-scoring logic out loud.
11:06 – 12:53
06 · Processing and running the skill live
Claude writes back a plain-language recap of the workflow it inferred, flags an assumption about a browser extension, and renders the outliers into a ranked HTML report.
12:53 – 14:30
07 · Live build 2: ordering dinner
Second recording teaches Claude a full Uber Eats order — restaurant, dish, size, base, toppings — end to end.
14:30 – 15:19
08 · The one-command result + close
Shows the saved skill triggering the exact order with a single slash command, then pitches the paid AI community.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Claude's Record a Skill feature converts a narrated screen recording of a task into a reusable automation without writing any code or prompts.
- The feature lives in Claude Cowork's desktop app, accessed via the plus menu, and is available on Pro, Max, and Team plans.
- Anthropic explicitly warns not to type passwords, secrets, or private information during a skill recording, since the screen, clicks, typing, and audio are all captured and sent to Claude.
- Narrating why a step is being taken, not just what the step is, lets Claude adapt and improve the process instead of copying it literally.
- An outlier YouTube video was defined in the demo as one earning roughly 2.5x or more views than that channel's typical video in the same time window, and no older than one month.
- The recorded outlier-research skill built a ranked HTML report of competitor videos by comparing each video's views against the channel's own recent baseline, entirely inside the browser.
- When a browser extension providing exact view multipliers wasn't available during the recorded run, Claude calculated the outlier ratios itself instead of failing.
- A skill can be corrected the same way it was taught — by re-recording or adding a note — rather than by editing a prompt, rulebook, or configuration file.
- The second demo trained Claude to place a specific, fully customized food order on Uber Eats (size, base, protein, toppings), later triggered by a single slash command.
- Saved browser logins carry over into a recorded skill automatically, so the skill doesn't require separate credentials to be handed to it.
- The presenter frames this as a broader trend: AI coding tools moved from requiring users to write code, to writing prompts and CLAUDE.md-style rules files, to now just watching a demonstration.
- Reported early use cases for recorded skills cluster around recurring admin: invoicing, lead intake, client onboarding, inbox triage, weekly reporting, competitor monitoring, and bookkeeping prep.
- A recorded skill runs with real control over the account or computer it was taught on, rather than as a sandboxed simulation, which is why Anthropic's sensitive-data warning matters.
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WHAT TO LEARN
Claude's Record a Skill feature turns a narrated screen recording into a reusable automation, replacing prompts, no-code builders, and most of the manual repeat work in between.
01Intro
- A repeatable task recorded once — with the reasoning behind each click narrated aloud — becomes a skill Claude can run again without being re-taught.
- The feature launched inside Claude Cowork's desktop app plus menu, available on Pro, Max, and Team plans, not the Claude Code CLI.
02How powerful this idea really is
- The shift from writing exhaustive prompts to simply showing Claude a task means the model now infers most of the process itself instead of needing every step spelled out.
- Narrating why a step is taken, not just what the step is, lets the model improve on the demonstrated process instead of copying it literally.
03The top 10 use cases
- The most common early use cases cluster around recurring admin: invoicing, lead intake, client onboarding, inbox triage, and weekly reporting.
- Any task performed the same way more than once — on a local device or inside a website — is a candidate for a recorded skill.
04Setting up Record a Skill
- Recording captures screen, clicks, typing, and voice simultaneously, so Anthropic explicitly warns against typing passwords or exposing sensitive data while recording.
- Picking a lower-cost model for routine, low-stakes tasks and reserving the flagship model for token-heavy or judgment-dependent work is a simple way to control cost.
05Live build 1: YouTube outlier research
- A live demo of finding YouTube 'outlier' videos worked by comparing each video's views against that channel's typical performance in the same time window.
- An outlier score above roughly 2.5x normal performance, and no older than one month, was the bar used to flag a video as worth studying.
- Talking through the goal out loud — not just the click sequence — let Claude fill in missing analytics itself when a browser extension providing exact multipliers wasn't available.
06Processing and running the skill live
- Claude converts a demonstration into a written recap of the workflow it inferred, plus a plain-language flag of any assumption it isn't fully certain about.
- The output was rendered as a shareable HTML report ranking creators' outlier videos from biggest multiplier to smallest, without the user writing any code.
- A saved skill can be corrected the same way it was taught: re-record or add a follow-up note, rather than editing a rulebook or prompt file.
07Live build 2: ordering dinner
- The same feature extends past research tasks to pure convenience: teaching Claude a full food order once turns it into a single slash-command trigger.
- Login sessions already saved in the browser carry over automatically, so a recorded skill doesn't need separate credentials handed to it.
08The one-command result + close
- Once trained, repeating the task collapses to typing one short command, with the result delivered without further input.
Terms worth knowing.
- Record a Skill
- A Claude Cowork feature that captures a screen recording plus narration of a task and converts it into a reusable, repeatable automation the user can trigger again.
- Claude Cowork
- Anthropic's desktop workspace mode for Claude, separate from Claude Code, built around ongoing task delegation rather than a single chat exchange.
- Outlier video
- A YouTube video that earns significantly more views than a channel's typical recent output in the same time window, often used by creators to spot topics worth copying.
- .skill file
- The saved file a recorded demonstration produces, which can be installed so Claude can re-run the captured workflow on demand.
- Slash command
- A short typed shortcut (e.g. "/og fishbowl") that triggers a previously saved skill instantly instead of re-explaining the task.
Things they pointed at.
Lines you could clip.
00:08
“This new feature is called record a skill. And although it has a terrible sounding name, it might be the most powerful feature I've seen Claude release in a long time.”
01:52
“The model is finally smart enough to do 90% of the work, leaving you with 10% of the work.”
11:40
“It's a brilliant machine, and I have to treat it like a brilliant machine and not like something that I'm just giving it to follow step by step by step.”
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So Claude's latest feature is an absolute game changer. To date, it is the simplest way that we can 10 x our output because for the first time, there is no coding, there's no complicated back ends, and weirdly, there's no more prompting, at least not in the way that we're used to. This new feature is called record a skill.
And although it has a terrible sounding name, it might be the most powerful feature I've seen Claude release in a long time. So this is Anthropic's official announcement for the feature.
They say, new in Claude Cowork. It's not in code. It's actually in Cowork.
Teach Claude a skill. Okay. But we've had skills for a while.
However, this is very different. They say this record a skill feature, record your screen while you do a task. You talk to Claude as you go, and Claude turns that into a skill that it can run again and again and again.
So you literally show it how to do a skill or a process once, and you never have to do it again manually by yourself. You can find it in the record a skill in the plus menu in the desktop app available on all pro, max, and team plans.
And you can see this announcement hit 11,000,000 views on x because a lot of people can see the power of this skill. I wanna put this feature to the test with you in this video to show you just how powerful it can be.
We're gonna do two experiments step by step together. But I want you to get the overview of how powerful this idea is.
So Claude and everything that Claude is doing is trying to take the work and the effort and the energy away from you as a user. Started really technical Claude code where you had to literally still do some of the coding yourself. Then we had this really complex ecosystem with skills, plugins, MPCs, Chord MD files, and massive wikis that you had to construct to help the LLM do its job.
But now all the Chord engineers are saying, you need a lot less of that because the model is finally smart enough to do 90% of the work, leaving you with 10% of the work. And in this example, the work is literally just showing it how it's done.
You don't even have to explain, describe, code, or put it together in the back end at all. And so where last year, 2025, 2024, 2023, you'd be training another human.
You'd be using an app called Loom, which allows you to record your screen and walk through their job role and exactly what jobs they need to be doing so they can click where you click just like a monkey's gonna learn and copy you. Now, however, we can do it with AI. So let's jump into where can we actually use this powerful feature of record a skill.
So the easiest way to think about the applications of this cool feature is anything that you repeatedly do, you can now make into a skill that Claude can do anytime you want.
You can set it off or you can put on a routine for it to do in an automated fashion. These here are the top 10 use cases, what most people are using it for.
So we have anything that's invoicing and payment, and we can do it on your local device or it can also do it on the Internet. It will have full control of your computer, whatever computer it's on.
Product listings at scale, lead intake, client onboarding is a very simple one. Social content batching and making your content, inbox triage, obviously answering your emails and doing the e inbox sweeping, weekly reporting, which I'm gonna set up one similar to this in just a second with you, that that's not a weekly reporting, but more of a daily reporting, competitor and market monitoring, bookkeeping, accounts, any prep like that, and then publishing workflows.
But these are just the top 10 current uses by Claude users. You can do it to literally anything.
And so I'm going to do it with you for video research, and I'm going to do for ordering dinner. We're gonna set this up together now.
So when you come into Claude in the desktop app, you wanna swap to Cowork. Click on Cowork right there, and you'll see this plus symbol come up. You can also change the model over here.
Fable five, obviously, the most powerful. For something that is sort of routine like this, you might not need the most powerful depending on how many tokens you're currently using. If you're not maxing them out, might as well use the highest model.
If you are, you can drop down to the second or third highest. Now when you click on the plus, you'll see this video icon record a skill, the poorly named massive breakthrough, and you're gonna see the power of it right here.
So it says don't type passwords or secrets or display sensitive information, uh, or any private conversations while recording because it's recording everything, taking everything in, and pulling it to public service. You don't wanna be feeding any of your secrets up to Claude's mainframe.
So to start it off, I'm just gonna simply click start recording. Now as soon as I click start recording, it's gonna be looking at my screen. It can hear all the sounds my computer's making, and it can also, of course, hear me narrating it.
Now I'm gonna be telling two things, what I'm doing, but remember, the computer can see what I'm doing because it's getting this recording passed to it. I'm also gonna be telling it why I'm doing it so it can use its brilliant brain to make some, uh, adaptations and changes that might be even better than the system that I am showing it.
Now really quick, once I do click start recording, I'm gonna stop talking directly to you as a YouTube viewer because it's I don't want that inside this setup. But I'm just gonna walk through as if you were not here, uh, and you're gonna see the exact process. Now what am I setting up?
I'm wanting like, lot of people create content. I create YouTube videos. And my research for YouTube videos, I like to go to other people's AI channels and see what videos are performing well relative to their other videos that they're putting out so I know what topics I can also talk about.
I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna turn that into a skill. But if you're using x, if you're using Instagram, if you post on TikTok, it doesn't matter if you post on LinkedIn.
You can do this for content research on any platform. So here I go jumping in now. Okay.
So I would love for you to create a skill for me based on finding outlier videos in the AI niche on YouTube that I can then model for my own videos. So there's two main ways we're gonna do this. The first is searching up competitor channels and top competitors, and even not top competitors.
Small channels that have less subscribers but have outlier videos, meaning more views compared to their other videos in that same time frame is what we are looking for here. So I'm gonna come up and type in a competitor's channel.
I'm gonna type in Nick Sareyev, and I'm going to navigate to his channel here. This is his channel, and I'm going to navigate to the videos tab of his channel, and I'm gonna make sure it's sorted by latest.
And then you can see how many views his videos got in the time frame under his videos. Now I do have a plug in here called ViewStats that does it for me, but you might not have access to this.
So I want you to do the calculations yourself. Just seeing what his normal videos are doing, 21 k in two weeks versus 125 k in two weeks, this is an outlier video. Now when you identify an outlier video relative to the other videos on someone's channel, this one here is a 3.3, as I see, it's a 2.5.
But remember, if you do not see these numbers, calculate yourself. I want you to take a screenshot of that so you can screenshot the video.
Make sure you get the time in there and the outlier score in there, and I want you to publish that into a HTML file.
Now we're gonna go and collect a few of these videos. So another one is Nate Herc is another top inspiration in this niche.
Again, I will navigate to his channel, and I'll navigate to videos. I make sure it's sort by latest, and then I can see his view count and his days. Now when you upload the upliers into a HTML file, I would love to sort it by the most powerful outliers, the biggest outliers, the one that are ten, twenty, 30 x, the other videos up the top, and then have it descending from there.
So we're gonna continue to do that. There's a couple other people. Jack Roberts, I would love for you to also do the same system with him.
Search his name, click on his name, click on videos, click on latest, and then go and see his outlying videos. AI Edge by Miles Deutcher is another fantastic channel that I would love you to do that with.
And then the other one is Austin Marchese Marquis.
Not really sure how to pronounce it, but he has an excellent channel as well with some banger outlier videos. Uh, I'll show you an example of a massive one. Uh, right here, 755 k views in one month, which is absolutely incredible for this niche.
You can see a 7.2 outlier. And I would not want you to go past a month. Anything past a month, I'm gonna count as out of date.
That is the first way we can view these outliers. The second way is to start typing in some keywords.
So Claude is a really big keyword, but once again, we don't want anything outside the month. So I'm gonna click on filters.
I need these to be relevant outlier videos, outlier content, and wait for those outliers to load, or you can click through to their channel and see if these are outliers.
I'm gonna wait for that view stats video just to give me the reference here, and then scroll down until I find someone who's hit an outlier like this on full course. In order to get that screenshot once again, I'd click into his channel, I'd click to videos, I'd sort by latest, and then I would find the outlier and screenshot it from this area here.
He's a 6.6, he's a 16.2. There is some pretty massive outliers on that guy's channel, and I would screenshot it using that formatting and not the one of the actual results.
Now once I get back to the results, you can go down and find some more allies. Here's Iman Gudzi, and making sure, obviously, that it's relevant to AI.
We're not we're not screenshotting any outliers. It has to be AI or Claude or ChatGPT relevant, and they are the other keywords you can look at.
So AI is an excellent keyword, and you can find the outliers for AI. He's a 8.7 x, although, uh, whistleblower, I wouldn't say that's quite relevant to the to an AI channel like mine.
This one, however, is, but it's four months ago. I've forgotten to add our filter. So we go this month and we wanna get the most recent outliers.
So 7.1 x is excellent. 1,200,000 Elon Musk is excellent.
And then just continue down until you get the outliers. The last keyword, chat GPT, and then you can brainstorm your own keywords that you think are relevant to my Dreamlabs AI channel as well.
But remember, we want them very AI focused, Claude, chat GPT, and other trending AI topics. You can see Dan Martell. He's got a 1.8.
I'd say anything over a 2.5 is interesting enough for me as long as it is within that last month. Once you've done that, remember, I normally paste these into a Figma, but for you, I would love you to render them in a clean HTML report and send me a link to that report so I can see them in order descending from the biggest outliers to the smallest ones.
Okay. So I'm clicking done down here. You can see it's processed a 103 different steps.
Instead of me having to go type this out, instead of me having to whisper flow this in in voice, I'm now just uploading video instructions. Remember, I'm telling it why why why I want to do it so we can deduce most of the actual patterns and understanding it itself.
It's a , and I have to treat it like a brilliant machine and not like something that I'm just giving it to follow step by step by step. Click here, click here, tell it why, and it's going to actually innovate on your process. And it's going to be very impressive when it does.
So when you send that back off, you can see it's a recorded demonstration that's sent off. You can see it's got all those screen grabs, and it's gonna have my full transcript as well linked up to each screen grab.
So it's gonna create its own skill and have a shortcut to it that you can activate at any time. I'll check back in with you once that is processed. Okay.
So this has loaded. You can see the recording shows a clear repeatable workflow collecting outlier YouTube videos from vidIQ, it says performance, and it's asked to save the skill as YouTube outlier research.
If it starts doing it wrong, guys, you can come in and update the skill and re show it how to innovate, how to improve it, or just how to do it right if it's not doing it right. I have run the skill, so it did it live. It did not have access to the view stats, so I told it don't worry about that.
But I went through and rendered my HTML, so I can just open it here, download and open. And this is the page right here, YouTube outlier research in the AI niche. You can see it's got Eric Tech, it's got Nate Herc, it's got Jack Roberts, it's got Austin Marquise, it's got all the other searches for Claude, all the searches for chat g p t.
Honestly, mind blowing, brilliant, time saving. And this was just thrown together in a six minute recording as an example for you. But imagine if I perfect this and imagine I get this to do it every single day and send me these.
It's gonna be extremely helpful for me and my channel. And remember, there's a lot of different ways we can use this. The second way I actually wanna try and create a skill together is a little bit more fun and less work focused because I want you to realize that you can do this for anything.
So we're gonna come back in and start a new session. Click on co work. Click add.
Record a skill. It's going to make sure we don't have any sensitive information in here. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna teach Claude code how to order dinner for me.
So I'm gonna click start recording and show the process to Claude Code so it can order me whatever dinner I decide at the push of a button. So click on start recording. Okay.
I'm gonna teach you how to order me dinner. I go to Uber Eats inside my browser. The login should be saved so you can log straight in.
And then I come down to one of the restaurants that I like, Fishbowl, a very quick and easy meal. So when I tell you to order Fishbowl, come in and click on the Fishbowl store, then come and order the salmon o g.
That is the food that I love to eat. Absolutely delicious, not sponsored at all.
Choose a large size. Choose sushi rice, salmon sashimi.
No dressing is fine. No veggies. No extra veg.
Extra protein, get me some extra abiri salmon, please. I like some tobiko. I like double seaweed, and that is it.
So you can come down and click this button down below. No water. No anything else.
Just the OG salmon bowl. Then we click go to checkout, then we don't want any extras, and then we click place order.
Okay. So now at any time that I want that salmon o g fishbowl, I literally have to type in forward slash o g fishbowl, and it will literally open a browser and have that shipped to my house arriving in the next thirty minutes without me doing anything else. If you'd like to level up your AI knowledge and become an absolute superhero in this revolution, I'd highly recommend that you join our AI community where we're in there getting the cutting edge latest strategies, tools, and features from the big dogs, from the engineers at Claude themselves, and bringing them to us as business owners and putting them in our personal life to capitalize on the billions and billions of dollars that are going to flow to those who know how to use AI and know how to use Claude better than everyone else.
At the moment, we have a nice discount. The link is in the description below. Thanks for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The presenter puts Claude's new Record a Skill feature to the test live, twice — teaching it to hunt outlier videos across competitor YouTube channels, then teaching it to order a specific dinner — using nothing but a narrated screen recording.
Named ideas worth stealing.
02:45list
Top 10 Record-a-Skill Use Cases
- Invoicing & payment
- Product listings at scale
- Lead intake
- Client onboarding
- Social content batching
- Inbox triage
- Weekly reporting
- Competitor & market monitoring
- Bookkeeping prep
- Publishing workflows
The presenter's rundown of what people are already using Record a Skill for, spanning both local-device and browser-based recurring tasks.
Steal forpicking a first, low-risk task to try recording as a skill
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“If you'd like to level up your AI knowledge and become an absolute superhero in this revolution, I'd highly recommend that you join our AI community... At the moment, we have a nice discount. The link is in the description below.”
Soft-sell close placed right after the payoff lands (dinner arrives), framed as ongoing access to cutting-edge Claude tactics rather than a hard product pitch; discount incentive plus description-link CTA.
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