{
  "id": 3465903,
  "title": "ChatGPT can learn your repetitive tasks by watching you — here are 7 prompts to try",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/chatgpt-can-learn-your-repetitive-tasks-by-watching-you-here-are-7",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T08:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Guide",
    "slug": "tom-s-guide",
    "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/chatgpt-can-learn-your-repetitive-tasks-by-watching-you-here-are-7-prompts-to-try"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "ChatGPT can learn from watching you perform repetitive tasks, allowing you to teach the AI to carry out the process for you. The Record & Replay feature in ChatGPT Work records your actions as you work on your Mac and then translates your demonstrated workflow into a reusable skill. This eliminates the need to manually explain each step, making AI automation more accessible to those who know what they want ChatGPT to do but lack the expertise to create a workflow from scratch.\n\nTo get started with Record & Replay, ensure Computer Use is enabled and open ChatGPT Work or Codex in the desktop app. From there, select Plugins, click the plus sign, and choose Record a skill. After granting permission, perform the task as usual. Once finished, stop the recording via the menu bar or overlay. ChatGPT will then analyze the workflow and create a skill for you, which you can review and edit if necessary.\n\nHere are seven prompts to help you get started with recording your tasks:\n\n1. Expense report filing: Demonstrate how you name an expense, select a category, attach the receipt, and fill in required fields. Once completed, ask ChatGPT to check the amount, category, and attached receipt for future expense submissions.\n\n2. Regular report organization: Show how you download and arrange data for recurring reports, including the date range, filters, file renaming, and saving location. Create a skill that requests the new reporting period before executing the workflow.\n\n3. Calendar invitation creation: Explain your preferences for meeting duration, invitation formatting, description style, location setting, video call preferences, and reminder settings. Convert this process into a reusable skill that requests guest, date, time, and final approval before sending out an invitation.\n\n4. Content publishing: Record the process of publishing content, such as uploading a file, formatting a title and description, selecting categories and visibility settings, and checking final settings before publishing. Use this skill for blog posts, podcast episodes, newsletters, or social media content.\n\n5. Project ticket setup: Demonstrate how you create a project ticket with the correct format, including title structure, labels, priority, owner, description, and acceptance criteria. Create a skill that requests task details and displays the completed ticket for your approval.",
  "summary": "The Record & Replay feature in ChatGPT is able to learn a repetitive workflow after observing you carry it out once. Here are seven prompts to help you get started.",
  "key_points": [
    "ChatGPT learns repetitive tasks via Record & Replay feature",
    "Computer Use must be enabled to use the feature",
    "Seven prompts provided for common task automation"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}