Skales
I built a desktop AI agent a 6-year-old can use
Details
- External ID
- 47613527
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Skales
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6446015424164524
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Solo dev from Vienna. Skales is a local-first AI desktop agent for Windows, macOS, and Linux.v9.0.0 just shipped with Agent Skills (SKILL.md import from Claude Code, Codex, Copilot), autonomous coding (Codework), multi-agent teams (Organization), Computer Use, and 15+ providers including Ollama offline.No Docker, no terminal. Download, install, done. My 6-year-old built a Snake game with it.BSL-1.1, free for personal use.DevKit: https://github.com/skalesapp/devkit
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop ai agent for children
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a desktop GUI wrapper that interfaces with LLM APIs, executes local OS automation tools, and manages user skills/prompts.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #74 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 126 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Running AI agents across environments needs a proper solution · hn · 2026-03-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.