Adom Hydrogen (macOS / Lima)
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The macOS platform layer for Adom Hydrogen.
Bootstrap with one command
Latest: v0.1.30, published
Fresh container (no adom-wiki yet):
bash <(curl -fsSL https://wiki.adom.inc/static/bootstrap.sh) adom/hydrogen-mac-bootstrap
Already have adom-wiki installed:
adom-wiki pkg install adom/hydrogen-mac-bootstrap
What you'll get 1 app, 1 bootstrap
Layer Hydrogen's workspace onto a standard Adom workstation.
Adom Bridge is a small operating system for AI on your Mac: it gives an AI real hands on your native desktop, including your signed-in browser, KiCad, Fusion 360, the shell, files, windows and screenshots. It provisions its own Node and Python so bridges run without touching your setup, and it talks straight to your machine. It ships with Adom Hydrogen and installs standalone too, so if you drive your Mac with Claude Desktop or another AI, this is what gives that AI hands.
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README
markdownadom/hydrogen-mac-bootstrap
The macOS platform layer for Adom Hydrogen. On a Mac, Hydrogen's workspace runs
inside a Lima Ubuntu VM (hd-builder) that hosts the Adom-Workspace
systemd-nspawn machine; this package adds everything specific to that runtime on
top of the platform-generic adom/hydrogen-bootstrap.

adom-wiki pkg install adom/hydrogen-mac-bootstrap --allow-sudo # the golden Lima image bakes this;
# Hydrogen's setup re-converges it every install
The platform-layered bootstrap stack
adom/core ← Adom ecosystem (generic; shared with web Hydrogen)
└─ adom/hydrogen-bootstrap ← Adom Hydrogen, platform-GENERIC
├─ adom/hydrogen-windows-bootstrap ← WSL2 runtime
├─ adom/hydrogen-mac-bootstrap ← THIS — Lima/nspawn runtime
└─ adom/hydrogen-ubuntu-bootstrap ← native-Ubuntu runtime
Each platform layer depends on adom/hydrogen-bootstrap, which depends on adom/core,
so core stays generic across web + desktop Hydrogen and every host OS.
What this layer adds
- Dependencies:
adom/hydrogen-bootstrap(generic Hydrogen) +adom/adom-workspace-updater(the in-machine systemd updater daemon). - Bundled skills: the macOS-runtime
hd-*skills —hydrogen-container,hydrogen-container-stats,hydrogen-networking,hydrogen-ports,hydrogen-port-watcher,hydrogen-setup,hydrogen-setup-steps,hydrogen-topology,hydrogen-volume,hydrogen-workspace-lifecycle,hydrogen-workspace-monitoring(sourced fromadom-hydrogen/skills/public-facing/machine/). - install script: deploys those skills into
~/.claude/skills/on top of the generic layer, and installs theshothelper (~/.local/bin/shot) — one-call, token-efficient workspace screenshots that print only a PNG path (seehydrogen-self-screenshot-mac) — plus the Adom-branded Claude Code statusline (~/.claude/statusline.sh: model + context bar + 5h usage; only set when the user hasn't configured their own). Noteadom-wiki pkg installdoes not re-run install scripts for already-baked packages — Hydrogen's setup cascade (0.1.135+) runs the chain's deploy scripts explicitly (core → hd-bootstrap → hydrogen-mac-bootstrap) so a fresh skills release actually reaches an already-baked machine.
The macOS runtime
The workspace is always Linux; on a Mac that Linux runs in a local VM:
| macOS layer (this) | |
|---|---|
| Linux host | Lima VM (hd-builder) → nspawn machine (Adom-Workspace) |
| Provisioning | machinectl import-tar of the golden Lima image |
| Host↔workspace | Lima virtiofs share + adom-host gateway |
| Golden image | hd-lima-image |
The mixed-skill split (<name>-mac companions)
adom/hydrogen-bootstrap carries the 31 platform-generic hd-* skills. 13 mixed
skills are split per platform: the generic core stays in hd-bootstrap, and each
platform layer carries its own half. This layer carries the macOS halves in
skills/<name>-mac/.
Companions authored (11):
hydrogen-api-mac—adom-hostgateway,~/.adom/hd-control-urldiscovery, vz-no-loopback,/workspace/*(nspawn) endpoints.hydrogen-api-key-mac— diagnose/repair the injected/var/run/adom/api-keysession token (adom-cli 401s, tmpfs wipe on machine reboot, pre-0.1.148 post-auth gap): pull viaGET /auth-token, prompt the user to reauthorize, or trigger theinject-api-keysetup step.hydrogen-notifications-mac— Notification Center toasts + emergency Dock-bounce + the Notifications grant.hydrogen-recording-mac— Hydrogen's native recorder does not exist on macOS, so recording is in-app getDisplayMedia / pup / relay; ScreenCaptureKit native recorder not yet built (honest gap). Screen Recording TCC.hydrogen-screen-lock-mac— IOKitIOPMAssertionCreateWithName/PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep,pmset -g assertions,caffeinate.hydrogen-self-screenshot-mac—screencapture/CoreGraphics + CDPPage.captureScreenshot; per-panel crop resolves the rect via thedom.measureRPC (no CDP on WKWebView) +image-crate crop.hydrogen-browser-picker-mac— WKWebView-over-localhostinterception + LaunchServicesopen -anative browsers.hydrogen-permissions-mac— the macOS TCC model (Screen Recording, Accessibility, Automation, Camera/Mic) + preflight/relaunch.hydrogen-open-url-mac—open/open -a … --new-windowLaunchServices launch + control-URL discovery.hydrogen-ui-mac— driving the UI via thehd-ui-command→/ui/_resultcommand bus +invoke_ui_action(WKWebView has no CDP).hydrogen-captions-mac— workspace caption is platform-neutral; the desktop overlay (desktop_caption) is not implemented on macOS (honest gap).
Note: the macOS-runtime skills in
skills/that are whole (themachine/bucket —hydrogen-setup,hydrogen-container, …) are platform-clean skills, so they ship complete rather than as-machalves. The exact 13-skill mixed set should be reconciled against the sibling platform layers' companions.
NOTE — naming: the canonical slug for this layer is
hydrogen-mac-bootstrap, nothd-macos-bootstrap.