# unicity-aos/aos-ce

AOS Community Edition: the open agent operating system.

Repository: https://github.com/unicity-aos/aos-ce
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/aos-ce
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:11:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 93, longevity 3
- inputs: {"age_days": 52, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 44, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8552, forks 20 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.473096+00:00)

## What it is
AOS Community Edition is an open-source 'agent operating system' written in Rust that provides a CLI (`aos`), HTTP API, daemon, and MCP server for running and managing AI agents in composable units called capsules. It ships first-party capsules, provider/model tooling, and audit features under an Apache-2.0 license.

## Use cases
- run AI agents locally with an inspectable runtime
- serve MCP to clients like Codex, Claude, and Grok
- build and manage agent capsules from source
- self-host an agent operating system with a daemon
- audit and verify agent runtime releases with provenance attestations
- manage agent workspaces with init, status, and update commands

## When to choose
- you want an open, composable environment for running AI agents
- you need an MCP server edge shared across multiple AI coding clients
- you value supply-chain verification like Sigstore bundles and build provenance
- you prefer a Rust-based, self-hosted agent runtime with a CLI workflow

## When to avoid
- you need a simple one-off agent script rather than a full runtime platform
- you require a managed cloud agent service with a GUI
- you are not comfortable with CLI-driven, capsule-based workflows
- you need Windows-first support, since Unix process supervision is the primary path

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, mcp, cli, http-server, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: rust, cli, self-hosted
- tags: agent-operating-system, mcp-server, capsules, agent-runtime, http-api, sigstore-provenance, ai-agents, command-line, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- unicity-aos/aos-ce (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.473096+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:26:18.928850+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/unicity-aos/aos-ce (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.473096+00:00, sha ca51c732cb6d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.