native

Core Native SDK guide for AI agents. Read this before explaining the Native SDK or changing a Native SDK app. Covers the mental model (native-rendered apps by default, WebView shells as a coexisting architecture), project structure, app.zon, App and Runtime patterns, frontend integration, web engines, JavaScript bridge commands, permissions, windows, WebViews, dialogs, packaging, debugging, testing, and when to load deeper references. For authoring native-rendered UI (Native markup .native views, Model/Msg/update, UiApp), load the native-ui skill. Use when the user asks what the Native SDK is, how to build or modify an app, how to package or debug it, or how to add native capabilities.

Authoring guide for native-rendered Native SDK apps - declarative Native markup (.native) views plus Zig logic on the UiApp loop. Use when building or modifying native UI (widgets, layout, bindings, messages), writing .native files, wiring Model/Msg/update, testing markup views, or verifying a native app through the automation harness.

Zig 0.16 idioms for Native SDK code, indexed by compile error. Load when `zig build` fails on std APIs with errors like "struct 'fs' has no member named 'cwd'", "struct 'array_list.Aligned(u8,null)' has no member named 'init'", "struct 'std' has no member named 'io'", "no member named 'GeneralPurposeAllocator'", "no member named 'getEnvMap'", or "invalid format string" - the signature of code written for Zig 0.15 or earlier. Covers main(std.process.Init), std.Io file IO and writers, ArrayList, process spawning, environment, clocks and sleep, sockets, custom formatting, and build.zig module shapes, each as this SDK writes them.

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.

Automation and verification guide for running Native SDK apps. Use when the user asks to test a running app, inspect runtime state, list windows, wait for readiness, drive widgets, take deterministic screenshots, send bridge commands, debug why automation is not connected, create smoke tests, or verify a Native SDK example in a GUI-capable session.