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).