Hi! I’m SKYCOT.
Kids dream it up. SKYCOT builds it. Nothing goes online without a grown-up’s code.
Beta screens with a sample family. Plain English, on your own Mac, with the AI you already pay for.
9:00 am6:15 pmWhat kids make
A game for a friend. A page about the family dog. A card for Nan. Real projects, made by talking, or even by drawing.
Ava drew a rocket on paper and added a photo of it to her message. SKYCOT built it into a page that runs right inside SKYCOT, with no internet. She earned the “Drew it first” sticker.
Beta build, with a sample child called Ava.
Make a game where you catch falling stars, and it gets faster.
A page about Biscuit, with his tricks and a countdown to his birthday.
A birthday card for Nan’s 80th, with balloons and a big hello.
A times-tables quiz that cheers when you get one right.
A comic about our cat, with four panels and speech bubbles.
Examples of what a child might ask for. What gets built depends on the AI service you use, and a grown-up checks it before anything is shared.
12:00 pm6:30 pmHow it works
Install SKYCOT, pick your child’s reading level, set a parent code and sign in to the AI you already pay for. Your child doesn’t need an account of their own.
Type it or tap a starter card. Sam shows a plan first, and nothing changes until your child presses Build it. Safe steps run by themselves; anything risky waits for a grown-up.
Play it, keep it or go back. Read what changed in plain words, and pin the best to the family fridge. Sharing it with the world waits for a grown-up’s yes.
3:00 pm6:45 pmGrown-up in control
Putting work online needs the parent code, and so do new automations, the developer tools and switching the Family profile off. SKYCOT enforces it on the Mac itself, not just on the screen.
Putting a page live
4 to 6 digits that only you know. Building, drafts and Undo work as normal without it.
Halts everything the moment it’s pressed. Nothing auto-confirms.
Deleting, going live, spending, signing up, bookings and customer details.
Five wrong codes lock every code prompt for five minutes.
Every build starts with a plan. The internet, installs and deleting wait for a grown-up.
Every change is a version, and Restore is one click.
Only what each job needs goes to the AI you chose. The app sends us nothing, unless you switch on the phone relay, which only passes along sealed messages we can’t read.
An honest note. The Family profile is a set of guardrails inside SKYCOT, not web filtering and not Screen Time. It doesn’t lock the Mac, its bedtime and limits apply only inside SKYCOT, it can’t guarantee what an AI says, and a determined teenager could get round it. It makes the first experience safe and kind. The rest is parenting.
5:00 pm7:00 pmNew for families
Eleven things in the beta you can download today.
Say it, tap it or draw it.
Eight one-tap ideas. Nothing is sent until they press Send.
Replies read aloud by the Mac’s own voice. Voice typing is coming to the Mac app.
A photo of a drawing becomes a page that runs offline.
Each build explained in kid-sized words, with a peek at the code.
Sixteen stickers for real moments. Nothing rewards time spent.
See what they made, and decide when the workshop closes.
What they did last time, each time you open Family settings, and the week on one page.
Spots a full name or school and suggests leaving it out.
Up to eight children, each with their own picture, reading level and limits.
Little makers (ages 5 to 7), Makers (8 to 10) or Big makers (11 and up). Sam is never told a name or an age.
A calm heads-up five minutes before. Inside SKYCOT only.
Pin the best things where the whole family can open them.
Screens from SKYCOT’s beta build, with sample children called Ava and Leo.
6:00 pm7:15 pmLooks
A look changes how SKYCOT looks, never what it does. Every look has a light and a dark side.
Cream paper, marker pens, sticky notes and a named crew.
The Apple Messages look. Calm, clean and familiar.
Warm paper and ink, serif headings and one vermilion accent.
Dark navy glass with cyan and amber. Mission control.
6:30 pm7:30 pmBring your own AI
SKYCOT doesn’t resell AI. A grown-up signs in through each assistant’s own sign-in, so SKYCOT never sees the password.
Each AI service sets its own age rules. Some, including Anthropic’s Claude and Cursor, are for adults only; others allow teenagers with a parent’s permission. SKYCOT runs signed in with a grown-up’s own account, under the grown-up’s supervision, and doesn’t change those rules, so check your service’s terms first. In a Family profile, Codex and Claude are locked down for children, and any other AI waits for a grown-up’s OK. Product names belong to their owners.
7:30 pm7:45 pmAfter bedtime
The same careful developer for your own website. Tell it what you want, like “Add a Christmas menu page”, and SKYCOT builds it on your Mac and waits for your yes.
8:00 pm8:00 pmGet SKYCOT
SKYCOT for Mac is free during the beta. A grown-up brings their own AI account.
It’s a beta, so some things will be rough. Tell us what breaks by email or on Discord. No newsletter, and the app sends us nothing.
8:30 pm8:30 pmQuestions
It’s designed to be a safe first workshop for a child using it with a grown-up nearby. With the Family profile on, the assistant shows a plan and asks before every change, the riskier modes and developer tools are hidden, Undo is always there, and nothing goes online without the parent code.
These are guardrails inside the app, not a security product, and the AI service’s own safety settings and age rules still apply. Stay involved: build together, and look at what was made before it’s shared.
No. SKYCOT runs on a parent’s own Mac and the parent’s own AI account, and the parent sets it up and supervises. Your child doesn’t sign up for anything, with us or with an AI service, and SKYCOT has no account of its own.
What your child types goes to the AI service you chose, under your account and that company’s terms, so check its rules on age and on who may use your account.
Putting work online (both “send for review” and “put it live”), creating an automation, opening the developer tools (Advanced mode), opening another folder, changing which AI the children use, adding or editing a child, giving more time after bedtime, restarting to update, running the welcome steps again, changing the code, and turning the Family profile off. Five wrong tries locks every code prompt for five minutes.
Everything else works as normal: building, drafts and Undo.
It isn’t a parental-control or security product. It doesn’t filter the web, lock the Mac or replace Screen Time. Its bedtime and daily limits apply only inside SKYCOT. It asks the AI to keep things child-friendly and spots personal details before a message goes, but it can’t guarantee what an AI says. The parent code is kept on your Mac, and a determined teenager could get round it.
SKYCOT also doesn’t create AI accounts for anyone, sell AI time, or send us your work: we count update checks and optional relay connections as anonymous daily totals that reset each UTC day and cannot be linked between days.
The one you already pay for. A grown-up signs in to at least one: ChatGPT (which runs Codex, from OpenAI), Google (Antigravity) or Claude (Claude Code, from Anthropic), with Cursor, Grok and others under “More”. ChatGPT and Google sign in inside SKYCOT; Claude takes two short Terminal commands, once.
Each service sets its own age rules. As of October 2026, Anthropic’s Claude and Cursor require every user to be 18 or over, and OpenAI’s terms allow 13 to 17 year olds with a parent’s permission; Google sets its own rules for Gemini and Antigravity. Check your service’s current terms before your child uses SKYCOT with it.
Free during the beta. You pay your AI provider as you do today. Pricing for later will be announced before it applies to anyone.
Mac first. The beta is for Apple silicon Macs only. The iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch app is being tested with a small group through TestFlight: a parent can approve a request and see the day from their phone, and it needs the family Mac running SKYCOT. It isn’t on the App Store yet. Windows is on the list, and the dates will be honest ones.
Voice typing starts off for every child, and a grown-up turns it on with the parent code. Today it works in the phone app, on the device, and when SKYCOT is opened in Safari on the Mac; it isn’t in the Mac app’s own window yet. SKYCOT never records or keeps audio: the device’s own speech service turns speech into text, and SKYCOT says which one applies before you switch it on. Reading replies aloud uses the Mac’s own voices, so nothing leaves the Mac.
SKYCOT is built on T3 Code, an open-source project by T3 Tools Inc. released under the MIT licence. What we added is open too, under the Apache License 2.0. The SKYCOT name, logo and characters are trademarks of Curble Pty Ltd and are not covered by either licence. We say so in the app and on our open source page. SKYCOT is not affiliated with T3 Tools.
