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lukebuehleryesterday at 6:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

I’m building AgentOS [1], trying to experiment where agent substrates/sandboxes will head next. It's a deterministic, event-sourced runtime where an “agent world” is replayable from its log, heavy logic runs in sandboxed WASM modules, and every real-world side effect (HTTP, LLM calls, code compilations, etc.) is explicitly capability-gated and recorded as signed receipts. It ensures that upgrades and automations are auditable, reversible, and composable. The fun bit is a small typed control-plane intermediate representation (AIR) that lets the system treat its own schemas/modules/plans/policies as data and evolve via a governed loop (propose > shadow-run > approve > apply), kind of “Lisp machine vibes” but aimed at agents that need reliable self-modification rather than ambient scripts.

[1] https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/agent-os


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saadn92yesterday at 6:40 PM

Ha. Nice name. Looks like we both are: https://github.com/saadnvd1/agent-os

schappimyesterday at 6:47 PM

We should talk! I have been doing pretty much the same, but have been leaning heavier on the context parsing and schema sharing between apps.

CuriouslyCyesterday at 7:41 PM

This is definitely interesting, seems like the sort of thing Nix would do well.