Skygen is a case study by Verkh, an investor-ready product studio. Verkh designs and engineers digital products end-to-end for founders preparing pre-seed, seed, and Series A raises, and for established tech companies. Services include UI/UX design, product design, web and mobile development, and native desktop apps. Other recent work: Ohm Audio, Tally, Lucid, Skygen.
Skygen
Native macOS Engineering
Giving an AI
a Mac
to Drive
Challenge
Skygen is an AI agent that uses your computer the way a person does — running terminal commands, clicking buttons, typing into windows, watching the screen through screenshots. To make that real on macOS, the app has to be a trusted citizen of the operating system, and a low-level layer underneath has to translate the agent’s intent into actual clicks and keystrokes fast enough to feel real. Skygen had the AI. They came to us to build everything else.
Approach
We split the build into two layers. The first was the app itself — taking the existing Tauri interface and turning it into a real macOS product, with all the things users never notice but always feel: signed releases, notarization, sandboxed permissions, native notifications, and a custom auto-update pipeline we wrote from scratch. The second was the control layer — a Rust and Swift bridge that gives the agent precise reign over the OS: synthesized clicks and keystrokes, full-resolution screen capture, terminal control, and a native overlay that surfaces every action in real time.
The Work
Skygen Native macOS Agent
The product ships as a single, signed macOS app, but the real work lives in two layers underneath. The shell turns the Tauri-based interface into a first-class Mac citizen — handling permissions, sandboxing, native notifications, and silent background updates through a delivery pipeline we built ourselves. The control layer is where the agent meets the machine: a Rust and Swift bridge that captures the screen at full resolution, synthesizes precise mouse and keyboard input, drives the terminal, and feeds it all into a native overlay so the user always sees what the agent is about to do.
Skygen shipped as a fully native macOS app — signed, notarized, with a custom auto-updater and a native overlay that surfaces every action the agent takes in real time. The team took it from there into the hands of their first users.