Universe — Agent Workspace for Mac

Universe — the agent-native workspace for Mac

I built Universe so an agent’s work does not disappear into a chat transcript. Documents, spreadsheets, apps and browser sessions appear alongside the conversation as the agent creates them. The video shows the product in use.

The engineering starts with a local-first decision: the turn runs on the user’s Mac, against their files, browser and provider login. Sharing and cross-Mac continuity then have to work around a machine that can go offline.

I designed and built the desktop interface, agent runtime integration and artifact system. The stack includes Electron, React, TypeScript, SQLite and MCP, with a server-side sync layer. Agents retain individual memory and can hand work to specialist agents.

The difficult parts were preserving a coherent session across engines, streaming useful artifacts while work is still happening, and keeping the on-disk record recoverable.

Product: https://universe.works