Forget prompts: Claude can now learn your workflow by watching your screen

TL;DR Anthropic’s new “Teach Claude a skill” feature lets you record your screen and narrate a task, allowing Claude to learn and reuse that workflow later. The update is designed to reduce repetitive prompting, making Claude better at handling recurring tasks like reports, spreadsheets, and file organization. The feature is rolling out now to Claude Pro, Max, and Team subscribers through the Claude desktop app’s Cowork interface.

Teaching AI how you like things done isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. You can explain the same task over and over, save detailed prompts, or upload documents full of instructions, yet there’s still a good chance the AI will miss a step or do something differently the next time you ask. It’s a little like training a new coworker who keeps forgetting the workflow.

That’s exactly the problem Anthropic is trying to solve with a new Claude Cowork feature called Teach Claude a skill . Instead of typing out long instructions, you simply record your screen while completing a task yourself and explain what you’re doing as you go. Claude watches the entire process, learns it, and saves it as a reusable skill that it can perform again later.