Native SDK Agent Skill

Discovery skill for the Native SDK, the complete toolkit for building native desktop applications - views are declarative Native markup (.native), logic is plain Zig, and the toolkit's own engine renders every pixel, with WebView surfaces as the optional web-content path. Use when the user asks what the Native SDK is, how to build a Native SDK app, author native UI, scaffold an app, configure app.zon, add bridge commands, embed web content, package an app, test a running app, or automate a Native SDK app.

642 tokens

context cost

SKILL.md, read when the skill is used

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

7 197

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/native --skill native-sdk

What it tells the agent to use

found in the instruction text

Bash runs shell commands — read the instruction before connecting

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

Native SDK

The Native SDK is the complete toolkit for building native desktop applications. Views are declarative markup in .native files, logic is plain Zig, and the toolkit's own engine draws every pixel into real OS windows — no browser, no WebView, no interpreter in the binary. Every app embeds a deterministic automation server, so agents can snapshot, drive, and screenshot the running window. Desktop is the mature surface (macOS deepest, Linux and Windows exercised in CI); mobile embedding is experimental. WebView surfaces coexist as the optional path for embedding web content or hosting an existing web frontend.

Start here

This file is a discovery stub for agents that installed the Native SDK once with a skills installer such as npx skills add native-sdk. Before implementing or explaining Native SDK app work, use the installed CLI to discover and load the current skill content:

native skills list
native skills get core
native skills get core --full

Use native skills get core for initial orientation. Use native skills get core --full for implementation tasks because it includes the reference files for project anatomy, runtime, frontend assets, bridge/security/native capabilities, packaging, and debugging. Use native skills get automation when testing a running app, taking snapshots, requesting reloads, or using the built-in automation server. Use native skills get zig when zig build fails with "no member named" errors on std APIs — the SDK requires Zig 0.16.0, and that skill maps each pre-0.16 idiom's compile error to the current one.

Quick orientation

npm install -g @native-sdk/cli
native init my_app
cd my_app
native dev

Generated apps center on app.zon, src/app.native (the markup view), and src/main.zig (Model, Msg, update). Inspect those files before editing an existing app; web-frontend shells additionally carry frontend/ and a build.zig.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take vercel-labs/native-sdk from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference npm, npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.