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Comment by 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.

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