# macOS Desktop Stage — effect skill for device mockups

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A full Mac desktop with menu bar, dock and app windows sets the stage for a desktop app demo.

- **Type:** [Effect](https://varg.ai/how-to/effects.md) · [Device mockups](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/devices.md)
- **Slug:** `macos-desktop-stage`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** HeyGen (community)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/tree/main/registry/blocks/macos-tahoe-liquid-glass
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI, Any MCP client, varg Studio
- **Requires:** HyperFrames (npx hyperframes), Remotion, CapCut (by hand)
- **Cost:** Free — the take renders locally; generated footage, if any, bills by the model

## What it does

Built on [macOS Tahoe Liquid Glass Desktop](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/tree/main/registry/blocks/macos-tahoe-liquid-glass) by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Clean wallpaper, glass menu bar, one focused app window, and native notifications sliding in from the top right.

**When:** Native desktop apps, menu bar utilities and system-level features.

**Watch out:** Do not show a real desktop full of personal files; build a clean stage.

**Timing:** Window open 0.3–0.4 s (scale 0.96→1), notification slide 0.4 s, hold 3 s each.

**Also called:** Mac desktop, desktop app window, menu bar scene

### In HyperFrames

```bash
npx hyperframes add macos-tahoe-liquid-glass
npx hyperframes add macos-notification
```

### In Remotion

```tsx
<AbsoluteFill style={{backgroundImage:`url(${wallpaper})`}}>
  <MenuBar/><Window style={{transform:`scale(${interpolate(spring({frame,fps,config:{damping:200}}),[0,1],[0.96,1])})`}}/>
</AbsoluteFill>
```

### In CapCut

Use a clean wallpaper as background, overlay the app window recording with a rounded Mask and shadow; add a notification sticker.

### Ready-made components

- [macOS Tahoe Liquid Glass Desktop](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.macos-tahoe-liquid-glass/) (hyperframes): npx hyperframes add macos-tahoe-liquid-glass
- [macOS Notification](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.macos-notification/) (hyperframes): npx hyperframes add macos-notification
- [Native Notification Pop](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.native-notification-pop/) (hyperframes): npx hyperframes add native-notification-pop

### Where this comes from

- [Screen Studio: auto zoom, cursor smoothing, click effects](https://screen.studio/)

## Use when

- Native desktop apps, menu bar utilities and system-level features.

## Not for

- Do not show a real desktop full of personal files; build a clean stage.

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
- Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-video-edit-library -a codex -y`
- Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-video-edit-library -a cursor -y`

## Example output

https://static.heygen.ai/hyperframes-oss/docs/images/catalog/blocks/macos-tahoe-liquid-glass.mp4 — Preview of the macOS Tahoe Liquid Glass Desktop component that builds this take (credit: macOS Tahoe Liquid Glass Desktop · hyperframes, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/macos-tahoe-liquid-glass)

## More device mockups skills

- [Browser Window Frame](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/browser-window-frame.md): The web app plays inside a clean browser window with traffic lights and a URL bar on a soft backdrop.
- [Phone Frame with Live Screen](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/phone-frame-live-screen.md): A screen recording plays edge to edge inside a realistic phone frame with Dynamic Island.
- [Laptop Lid Opens to Screen](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/laptop-lid-opens.md): A laptop lid tilts open and the screen content lifts toward the viewer, then becomes the full frame.
- [3D Phone Turn](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/3d-phone-turn.md): A real 3D phone model turns in space with the app playing on its screen, then faces the camera.
- [Phone, Tablet and Laptop Splay](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/multi-device-splay.md): Phone, tablet and laptop fan out from one stack into a proud row, each showing the same product.
- [Push Through the Screen](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/push-through-the-screen.md): A phone rises into view, then the camera pushes through its screen into the full-frame UI.

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
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