Re:Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs an...
by YaraDori on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:55PM
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This is a great approach — giving agents their own compute environment is a huge unlock.
One challenge I keep running into on the other side of this: even with a full VM and browser available, the bottleneck is often teaching the agent what to do. Writing detailed step-by-step instructions for each workflow is tedious and error-prone.
I've been working on a complementary tool (SkillForge — https://skillforge.expert) that takes a different angle: you record your screen doing the task once, and AI extracts every click/keystroke/navigation into a structured skill file the agent can replay.
The combo of something like CloudRouter (agent gets its own machine) + structured skill extraction (agent knows exactly what to do) feels like it could make agent automation much more practical for non-trivial workflows.
One challenge I keep running into on the other side of this: even with a full VM and browser available, the bottleneck is often teaching the agent what to do. Writing detailed step-by-step instructions for each workflow is tedious and error-prone.
I've been working on a complementary tool (SkillForge — https://skillforge.expert) that takes a different angle: you record your screen doing the task once, and AI extracts every click/keystroke/navigation into a structured skill file the agent can replay.
The combo of something like CloudRouter (agent gets its own machine) + structured skill extraction (agent knows exactly what to do) feels like it could make agent automation much more practical for non-trivial workflows.