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Show HN: Skylight – Run computer-use agents on Windows VMs
Hey all! We're Skylight, a team founded by Maria (DeepMind Scholar in AI) and Adam (PhD researcher focused on LLMs).
We’re building Windows virtual machines that can be operated by computer-use agents (CUAs). You can spin up persistent Windows instances in seconds and operate them with CUAs. We’ve created a built-in agent, or you can plug in your own with the API + SDK.
Skylight works best to automate apps and legacy software that don’t have APIs, such as Microsoft Office and ERP systems.
We built this because deploying CUAs in production is way harder than it should be, and we packed in all the things we needed ourselves:
- Persistence – pause and resume VMs without losing progress
- Interactive Live Streaming – watch agents work in real time and take control if needed
- Multiple Instances – run multiple VMs at once and coordinate across them
- File Downloads – pull files from VMs to your local machine
- Knowledge Base – agents retain context of past actions
- Human-in-the-Loop – guardrails for important and irreversible actions
If you need to run agents that use desktop software (not just browsers), come check us out (for free).
- deepdarkforest 1y agoLooks super interesting. I have couple of very annoying workflows that i'm looking to automate but no API's. Can i install my own apps?
- mflvn 1y agoYes, you have administrator access to the VMs and can install any apps. The VMs are persistent so you can pause (hibernate) them and keep your custom environment.
- t55 1y agoCongrats! obviously massive potential for saas automations what made you choose windows over other OSs?
- mflvn 1y agoHey yeah so obviously the only other real alternative is Unix. MacOS is on the roadmap, but we decided to start with Windows since the vast majority of enterprise or commercial applications require windows (e.g. ERP, EHR, Claims Processing etc). MacOS meanwhile is often used for more creative tasks (e.g. design, engineering) rather than automation. On the Linux side, they do have 2/3rds of the market share server-side, but there are fewer agentic usecases there.