Veda: An Operating System Built Around an AI Agent, Not an Assistant
Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System
Veda is a from-scratch operating system written in Rust where an AI agent is a core system service, not an add-on. Every application natively exposes actions and state, and the agent executes them through the same code paths as keyboard and mouse input. Actions are classified as routine, sensitive, or destructive, with the system enforcing user consent. The agent uses real-time voice via Deepgram, keeps memory local, and runs on x86-64 PCs in QEMU and VirtualBox.
The agent service enforces this, not the language model: the call is held until you answer, only the desktop shell can answer, and nothing the agent reads in a document or an application can approve anything.
- MarceColl
IMO, an agentic operating system should be not only about "integrating the agent everywhere" but also about providing the compartimentalization and tools to allow working safely with agents when they can reach into every part of the system. It should allow to easily extend the system safely.
I also built an agentic OS but the underlying system is very different based on a custom actor runtime with capabilities and a way to arbitrarily create and compose restricted capabilities.
The idea is that you can sculpt the OS to your needs using agents and fully restrict what they can or can't do.
The core is also I think kind of interesting because at it's core it's an actor runtime, where each program receives and sends messages, and only when processing a message they use memory. Each program has managed persistent state as well. So it's very easy to create actors that persist data and you can have millions of them without using a lot of resources.
- bensyverson
The question most of us will have is: what does having the agent at the OS level get you that you can't get through a user space app? "It does the work through the same operations as your keyboard and mouse" makes it sound like garden-variety computer-use rather than something more fundamental. I would expect an agent-oriented OS to be built around something like Apple's App Intents as an atomic component.
- 2001zhaozhao
What does this do that giving the agent a wayland session in Linux doesn't?