Create a Hello World app

The easiest way to create an outerframe app is via Outer Shell within Outer Loop.

Create new app in Outer Shell

This will create a project that is immediately ready to be deployed to the device.

Alternately, here is an even simpler outerframe app that you can start from:

Then change it to fit your use case

Use tricks from the cookbook: https://github.com/outergroup/outerframe-cookbook

Importantly, coding agents are already pretty good at building macOS outerframe apps, because the platform is macOS. We don’t have to wait for the language models to pretrain on outerframe examples and documentation.

One good strategy is to use a coding agent like Codex or Claude, and point it to a couple example projects like:

and then tell it what you want to build.