automate-this SKILL.md skillA
automate-this from github/awesome-copilot is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add github/awesome-copilot/automate-this@git:20260309.5bed978Pins git:20260309.5bed978 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- github/awesome-copilot
- Path
skills/automate-this/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260309.5bed978, committed Mar 9, 2026
- Size
- 12,463 bytes
- Repository stars
- 40,941
- License
- MIT
Analyze a screen recording of a manual process and produce targeted, working automation scripts. Extracts frames and audio narration from video files, reconstructs the step-by-step workflow, and proposes automation at multiple complexity levels using tools already installed on the user machine.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Automate This Analyze a screen recording of a manual process and build working automation for it. The user records themselves doing something repetitive or tedious, hands you the video file, and you figure out what they're doing, why, and how to script it away. ## Prerequisites Check Before analyzing any recording, verify the required tools are available. Run these checks silently and only surface problems: ```bash command -v ffmpeg >/dev/null 2>&1 && ffmpeg -version 2>/dev/null | head -1 || echo "NO_FFMPEG" command -v whisper >/dev/null 2>&1 || command -v whisper-cpp >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "NO_WHISPER" ``` - **ffmpeg is required.** If missing, tell the user: `brew install ffmpeg` (macOS) or the equivalent for their OS. - **Whisper is optional.** Only needed if the recording has narration. If missing AND the recording has an audio track, suggest: `pip install openai-whisper` or `brew install whisper-cpp`. If the user declines, proceed with visual analysis only. ## Phase 1: Extract Content from the Recording Given a video file path (typically on `~/Desktop/`), extract both visual frames and audio: ### Frame Extraction …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add github/awesome-copilot/automate-this@sha256:4f45d8a3ce3e8c0eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260309.5bed978, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 9, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12463 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
github/awesome-copilot · 40,941 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5murh27vd6x4id7u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=github/awesome-copilot/automate-this GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4f45d8a3ce3e8c0e53e0e1ab0b81ba01d10236ff64ff3c397a272af9486ac59f
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