Skill Recorder v0.3.0

Warning

Windows users: Do not use the v0.3.0 Windows installation command. Its source installer can fail when nested dependency paths exceed legacy MAX_PATH, and cleanup can mask the underlying error. Install v0.3.1 instead. Existing successful v0.3.0 installations and the macOS/Ubuntu installers are unaffected.

Skill Recorder v0.3.0

This is a source-only release. No prebuilt application, installer, or
portable binary is attached. GitHub provides the tagged source archives, and
the commands below build the exact release commit locally.

Highlights

• The Windows source installer now saves a Skill Recorder (Source) shortcut
  on your desktop, in addition to the existing Start Menu entry. It resolves
  the real desktop folder, so OneDrive-redirected desktops work correctly.
• The installer finishes with a confirmation that lists exactly where both
  shortcuts were saved, so it is clear how to reopen the tool later.
• Shortcut creation is no longer fatal. If Windows refuses to write a shortcut,
  the installer reports a warning instead of discarding an installation that
  already passed every integrity, license, and build check.
• Set SKILL_RECORDER_NO_DESKTOP_SHORTCUT=1 to keep only the Start Menu entry.
  The published one-line commands are unchanged.
• No redundant downloads. Re-running the same commit already reused the
  installed revision, and now says so plainly. An attempt that failed part-way
  used to download everything again; the portable Node.js archive and the pinned
  source archive are now kept in <install root>\cache and reused on the next
  attempt.

Cached files are re-verified by SHA-256 before use and discarded if they do
not match: the Node.js archive against the SHASUMS256.txt that nodejs.org
publishes, re-fetched on every run, and the source archive against a digest
recorded at download time, on top of the existing commit-directory and
required-path checks. Entries are deleted once the revision is installed, so the
cache only ever holds work from an interrupted attempt. Deleting it is always
safe.

Upgrade and compatibility notes

• Upgrading is optional. v0.2.1 installations keep working; re-run the command
  below with this release's commit to pick up the desktop shortcut.
• Existing shortcuts are refreshed in place, so they point at this revision.
• Windows uninstall now has one extra step. INSTALL.md documents removing the
  desktop .lnk alongside the Start Menu one.
• No new dependencies and no third-party code were added. Shortcuts use the
  built-in Windows WScript.Shell COM object and existing .NET APIs, and the
  caching change only adds verification steps to the existing verify-then-build
  chain.
• macOS and Ubuntu behaviour is unchanged in this release.

Release identity

• Tag: v0.3.0
• Commit: fc5274fa5a5257dbf092602280bfd506eb7ba5ee

Installer script SHA-256 values:

ff3a6e03936f6c7d1aeddb32829be2fe7a9a2574e614d5145f65745f5b8c1530  install.ps1
a67893701328c14f74b8694d9ab7248b73fdf0076a8631ef9a87d15e9692e481  install.sh

Install from the exact release

Windows PowerShell:

$commit="fc5274fa5a5257dbf092602280bfd506eb7ba5ee"; $env:SKILL_RECORDER_COMMIT=$commit; irm "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/skill-recorder/$commit/install.ps1" | iex

macOS or Ubuntu:

commit="fc5274fa5a5257dbf092602280bfd506eb7ba5ee"; curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/skill-recorder/$commit/install.sh" | SKILL_RECORDER_COMMIT="$commit" bash

The safer procedure is to download and inspect the script, verify its SHA-256
against the values above, and only then execute it. See the immutable
installation guide.

The source installers do not require administrator access or a global Node.js
or Copilot CLI installation. GitHub Copilot authentication, entitlement, and
network access are still required.

Licensing boundary

The MIT license covers Skill Recorder's own code. Third-party components remain
under their respective licenses and notices. The source installers retain the
applicable legal materials in the local installation. A locally assembled
application is for local execution only and must not be redistributed as a
release artifact.

Maintainers should follow the immutable
release runbook
before publishing later versions or any binary artifact.