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Exhibit No. 012 · Apps

A whole OS in one HTML file

The prompt behind the most-viewed AI demo of 2025: a macOS-style desktop with working apps, from a text editor to a video editor.

Prompt

> Design and create a web os like mac os full functional features from text editor to file manager to paint to video editor and all important mac os pre bundled software. Use whatever libraries to get this done but make sure I can paste it all into a single HTML file and open it in Chrome. Make it interesting and highly detailed, shows details that no one expected, go full creative and full beauty in one code block

What it tests

Very long single-file output: a window manager, a file system and many small apps that all have to actually work.

Origin

@chetaslua (prompt quoted by fofr) · 2025

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Difficulty

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Results

Claude Opus 5.5

Run on 2026-10-19Open the raw answer
Test conditions

One attempt per test, with no edits after running. Where a first attempt didn’t work, the test was answered once more and the exhibit says so; answers that still don’t work are not shown. Run inside a Claude Code agent session, which includes its own system prompt, rather than the raw API.

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