Doubao Work update: blogger demos 10 advanced office use cases

ByteDance's Doubao Work rolled out several office upgrades this week, and blogger @songguoxensongguoxiansen tested them and compiled 10 advanced use cases — the core idea is turning Doubao from a chat tool into a desktop productivity assistant.

Confirmed

Browser recording & replay: After typing /浏览器录制与回放, Doubao launches a local browser and records the user's actions; once you manually demonstrate a task and reply "done," the system automatically summarizes it as a reusable Skill that can be called repeatedly — no long prompts needed, and it can automate repetitive operations and export results
Local Office editing: Directly modifies PPT/Excel/Word files on your hard drive and saves changes to the original file; AI can handle repetitive and cross-referenced Excel data
Other tricks include: making desktop pets (e.g., a One Piece Boa Hancock desktop pet), scheduled tasks, controlling your PC from your phone, desktop-mobile collaboration, and creating images via a one-sentence poster Skill

Why it matters

Turning browser recordings into Skills dramatically lowers the automation barrier — users don't need to write prompts or code; a single demo becomes a reusable capability. Local Office editing lets AI take over file-level drudgery directly. According to @新智元, these are three capability updates Doubao Work shipped this week, showing ByteDance is accelerating its push into AI office productivity.

2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-10 · 7 related posts

Primary sources

Doubao Work update: browser recording becomes reusable Skills, native Office editing, mid-task device switching — 新智元 · 2026-09-09 19:27 (UTC+08:00)
Doubao's browser record-and-replay turns your clicks into reusable Skills — songguoxiansen · 2026-09-10 10:06 (UTC+08:00)

[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

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