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AIOS (Autonomous Interoperable Operating System)

AIOS is a clean-slate, agent-first operating system where every workload is an AIOS agent. It offers semantic IPC, a shared memory fabric, capability-based security, and PQC-native primitives, with a single canonical boot path from firmware through kernel subsystems to system and domain agents.

Role in the QIST Stack

AIOS is QIST’s core experimental OS for autonomous systems:

  • moves beyond traditional process-centric POSIX/Win32 models
  • treats agents as governed, observable, and cryptographically anchored entities
  • serves as a lab for PQC-native OS designs and agent-scale governance

Core Capabilities

  • agent-only execution model — all workloads are agents targeting the AIOS agent ABI; there is no legacy POSIX/Win32 compatibility
  • 24 kernel subsystems and seven privileged services (identity, memory, semantic IPC, planning, supervision, networking, init)
  • PQC-native security posture — PQC syscalls and libraries embedded at kernel and services level

Research Focus

  • formal semantics for agent-native operating systems
  • capability-based security for large agent estates
  • PQC-backed identity and attestation for OS-level components
  • observability and policy for autonomous task orchestration

Institutional Role & Independence

Commercial deployments of AIOS-based systems are operated by independent entities (such as CUILabs). QIST engages with AIOS as a research reference architecture — not as a commercial service provider or OS vendor.