Doubao Work Updates: Browser Recording Becomes Skills, Local Office Editing Goes Live
Doubao Work, ByteDance's AI office product, rolled out multiple capabilities this week. Blogger @songguoxiansen tested and compiled 10 advanced use cases, while @AlchainHust verified local Office editing — the common theme is turning Doubao from a chat tool into a desktop productivity assistant.
Confirmed
- Browser recording & replay: per @songguoxiansen, entering /浏览器录制与回放 launches a local browser that records user actions; after a manual demo and replying "done", the system summarizes the operation into a reusable Skill, eliminating long Prompts and enabling automated repeatable operations with export
- Local Office editing: per @AlchainHust, local Excel and PPT files open and edit directly in the Doubao workbench without upload/download rounds, files never leave the computer; the UI offers format painter, formula bar, sheet tabs, saves back to the original file, and AI can handle repetitive and relational Excel data
- Other tricks include a custom desktop pet (e.g. a One Piece character), scheduled tasks, phone-remote-control of the PC, desktop-mobile sync, one-sentence poster Skill image generation, uploading a .glb 3D model to generate a drag-browsable Three.js webpage publishable to the public internet, and a /系统清理与优化助手 command that analyzes disk space and flags safely deletable files
Why it matters
Browser-recording-to-Skill drastically lowers the automation barrier — no Prompt or code needed, one demo becomes a reusable capability. Local Office editing keeps files on-device while AI takes over file-level repetitive work. Per @新智元, these are this week's three Doubao Work updates, signaling ByteDance's push into AI office productivity.
2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-10 · 8 related posts
Primary sources
- Doubao Work update: browser recording becomes reusable Skills, native Office editing, mid-task device switching — 新智元 ·
- Doubao Work adds local Office editing: edit Excel and PPT directly in chat — AlchainHust ·
- Doubao's browser record-and-replay turns your clicks into reusable Skills — songguoxiansen ·
- [source] Doubao Work update: browser recording becomes reusable Skills, native Office editing, mid-task device switching — 新智元 · 2026-09-09
- 10 Advanced Doubao Workflows: Desktop Pets, Scheduled Tasks, Remote Coding — songguoxiansen · 2026-09-10
- [source] Doubao's browser record-and-replay turns your clicks into reusable Skills — songguoxiansen · 2026-09-10
- 10 advanced Doubao workflows, including one-prompt poster Skill creation — songguoxiansen · 2026-09-10
- One Prompt Turns a GLB 3D Model Into a Public Three.js Web Viewer via Doubao — songguoxiansen · 2026-09-10
- Doubao's AI Office Push: One Prompt to Scan and Clean Up Your Disk — songguoxiansen · 2026-09-10
- [source] Doubao Work adds local Office editing: edit Excel and PPT directly in chat — AlchainHust · 2026-09-10
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