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Beos App Platforms — Testing skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code skill: build, package and test BeOS-style (Haiku API) apps on Haiku/Renku OS (.hpkg) and Linux via Hokku/Cosmoe (AppImage), with headless VirtualBox testing.

How to install Beos App Platforms

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open idumych/beos-app-platforms and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Beos App Platforms does

Claude Code skill: build, package and test BeOS-style (Haiku API) apps on Haiku/Renku OS (.hpkg) and Linux via Hokku/Cosmoe (AppImage), with headless VirtualBox testing.

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README

beos-app-platforms

A [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) skill (also usable from opencode) for building, packaging, testing and releasing **BeOS-style apps**, that is, C++ written against the Be/Haiku API, on two platforms from one source tree:

Platform	Package	Tested in
Haiku R1/beta6	`.hpkg`, x86_64 only: Haiku has no arm64 release or arm64 package repository yet	Haiku R1/beta6 (hrev59866) in a VirtualBox VM, which also builds the package
Linux, through Hokku (a fork of Cosmoe)	AppImage, x86_64 and aarch64 (X11 and Wayland), built natively per architecture in GitHub CI	x86_64: Xvfb + Openbox, full test; both architectures: started under X11 and Wayland (headless sway) in CI, aarch64 on GitHub's arm64 runners

**Where upstream bugs are reported.** Packages are built and tested on Haiku R1/beta6, but platform bugs found along the way are submitted to [Renku OS](https://github.com/RenkuOS/Source), a Haiku fork that explicitly accepts AI-assisted contributions. They are never sent to the Haiku project, because Haiku doesn't welcome AI-generated contributions. Renku still names its system package `haiku` (`r1~beta6`), so the same `.hpkg` installs there too. Cosmoe bugs are fixed in Hokku, since Cosmoe doesn't accept AI contributions either.

It records what was learned shipping [Folio](https://github.com/idumych/folio) and [Sheath](https://github.com/idumych/sheath):

Porting: the Makefile platform branches, plus the traps on each system (node monitoring, attributes, Trash, entry_ref names, font faces picked by style name, tooltips that never hide on Cosmoe, headers missing from R1/beta6).
Packaging for amd64 and arm64: the .hpkg in a Haiku R1/beta6 VM (or on a GitHub runner with cross-platform-actions), x86_64 until Haiku has an arm64 target (the skill says how to check at each release); and a relo