Concept register · Concept 07 of 65 · Theme: skills need an SDLC Reviewed 2026-10-02

assay · concepts · skills-need-an-sdlc

Demonstration-to-skill capture

Record a human performing a task on the agent’s own computer, then turn that demonstration into a reusable skill. Spoken narration can preserve the intent that clicks alone do not explain.

emerging · assay: not designed

1 independent source · last reviewed 2026-10-02


§1What it is

Capture the procedure by doing it

A person takes manual control of an agent’s browser or desktop, demonstrates a task and stops the recording. The system converts the actions into an invocable procedure. The durable artifact is a skill; the recording is its authoring input.

Preserve intent as well as actions

A narration pass can explain why an action was taken or which parts should generalise. This can capture tacit knowledge in browser workflows that are difficult to describe in a written procedure. A successful demonstration does not prove that the resulting skill survives a changed interface.


§2Sightings

Grok Bot Galaxy 2026 · 2026-09-15–17

Four workshops show or describe recording a human task on an agent’s own computer, then invoking the resulting skill later. Voice narration can clarify why an action was taken. All four accounts concern the same vendor and product: they count as one independent source. Recordings are third-party re-uploads. Individual workshop dates within the event are not established.


§3Where Assay stands

No demonstration capture path

Assay’s role skills are authored as versioned text and reviewed through pull requests. The methodology does not describe turning a recorded browser task into a skill. Its current work is primarily forge and CLI based, so this is a tracked gap rather than a promised feature.


§4Watch

  • A second independent implementation beyond this vendor.
  • Measured failure and recovery when the interface changes.
  • Whether narration improves repeatability over action recording alone.