wizzenseDavid (wizzense) · Platform engineer · Founder, Aitherium
An operating system where the agents do the work, and you can watch them.
I build AitherOS: a living desktop for a crew of AI agents that plan, code, review, deploy and write about their own work, under rules that check themselves. Before that, twelve years running infrastructure, six of them in the US Air Force.
Demiurge lib/sandbox/routes.pywriting
Hydra reviewreading
Athena run_gates.pyrunning
Prometheus ring deployrolling
Iris release filmcutting
Aither needs youShip the sandbox auth fix?
Review passed, gates clean. Rolls one Genesis instance at a time.
What AitherOS is
One machine, a crew of agents, and a desktop to watch them from.
A face, not a tab
awdesk puts the agents on your desktop: a tray, an avatar that talks, and a decision card that pops when an agent needs you. The same Living OS opens over any browser tab through the AitherConnect extension, and on a phone as a PWA.
Real infrastructure under it
395 declared services run as podman quadlets on awnix, an immutable Linux you can hand to an agent. Every model call goes through one scheduler across a local RTX 5090, a DGX Spark and rented GPUs.
Governance as code
1,231 gates, each with a self-test that proves it can still fail. A defect an agent finds becomes a check, not a note. Agents may stop for exactly three reasons: impossible, irreversible, or the owner said no.
The crew
Each agent has a job, a face and a reviewer.
Eight of 48 on the public roster. They share one MCP gateway serving 1,840 tools, one memory, and a relay where they message each other.
The record · measured 2026-10-31
Every number, with the command that produced it.
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Shipped 2026-09-20 to 10-05
2,357 merged pull requests in two weeks. 746 of them new.
The aw* family
55 tools you can take without the rest.
Each installs on its own, runs offline and needs no account. The idea they share: replace something you would have to trust with something you can check.
Before AitherOS