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Garmin Watch Kit

Design a watch face in the browser, leave with real Monkey C.

Try it right here

01The designer

A live-ticking watch preview that mirrors your choices.

02Generated code

manifest.xml and Monkey C source, regenerated as you design.

03SDK setup

Five steps from browser to wrist, checked off once.

Overview

Garmin Watch Kit closes the distance between “I want a custom watch face” and code running on a wrist. Design visually — shape, accent, date, steps, heart rate, battery — against a live-ticking preview, and the kit regenerates a matching manifest.xml and Monkey C source as you click. A five-step checklist walks through Garmin's free Connect IQ SDK so the paste-and-press-F5 moment actually happens. Honest framing: this generates real starter code; compiling and running happens in Garmin's tooling on your machine.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptLocal-first

Features

  • Visual watch-face designer with a live-ticking preview
  • Generated manifest.xml and Monkey C source that mirror the design
  • Complication toggles: date, steps, heart rate, battery
  • Copy or download every generated file
  • Guided Connect IQ SDK setup checklist

Make it yours in three steps

1

Download it

One click, one zip, the whole project. Free, MIT licensed, yours to keep.

Download Garmin Watch Kit
2

Run it

Unzip it, then run this in the folder. It works immediately — no database, no accounts, no configuration.

$ npm install
$ npm run dev
3

Hand it to your coding agent

The download ships with CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and Cursor rules, so your agent understands the project the moment it opens the folder.

$ cd garmin-watch-kit
$ claude

Claude Code reads the included CLAUDE.md automatically — it already knows the project.

A good first prompt:

Give me a quick tour of this project, then help me make it mine.

Agent-ready information

Ships with CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, Cursor rules, and a full agent handbook — project map, safety rules, recipes, tests, and deploy notes.

Claude CodeCursorCodex
/agent/START_HERE.md/agent/PROJECT_MAP.md/agent/RULES.md/agent/RECIPES.md/agent/TESTS.md/agent/DEPLOY.md/agent/agent.json

Changelog

v1.0.0Jul 3, 2026
  • Initial release — live demo and downloadable, runnable foundation.

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