An Agentic Operating System
Open architecture, open source agent framework, open source deployment tools. Spin up your own vLLM containers, use Ollama locally, or deploy the full stack on your own hardware. 48 agents, built in the homelab.
A side project that got out of hand. Built on personal hardware, on personal time. Filing bugs is encouraged.
Build an Agent in 10 Lines
The ADK is open source. Point it at your local Ollama or your own vLLM containers and you have a fully capable agent with memory, tools, and personality in under a minute.
from adk import AitherAgent
# Auto-detects Ollama on localhost
agent = AitherAgent("atlas")
response = await agent.chat(
"What's the project status?"
)
print(response.content)
# Or serve it as an API:
# $ aither-serve --identity atlas
Your Infrastructure. Your Choice.
Run locally with Ollama or your own vLLM containers. Self-hosted, on your own hardware. Bring your own agents or use the built-in fleet.
Ollama
Local inference. Free. One command to start.
vLLM / OpenAI
Your own vLLM containers or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Cloud Fallback
Optional cloud endpoints when local GPUs are busy.
MCP Bridge
100+ tools. Bring your agents or use ours.
Six Pillars of Cognition
Every request flows through all six. Not a chain of prompts — an actual cognitive architecture. I may have overthought this.
Intent
PARSEClassifies input into 16 intent types, assigns effort 1–10, routes to the correct pillar chain.
Reasoning
THINKSASE methodology — Situation, Analysis, Synthesis, Execution. Gated: skips for trivial, deep chains for critical.
Orchestration
ACTRoutes to 48 specialist agents. Selects the right LLM per-task. MCP tool protocol.
Context
REMEMBER5-layer memory hierarchy from 1ms working memory to permanent identity storage. Every pillar reads and writes here.
Creation
MAKEFour creative domains: Visual (Canvas), Code (Demiurge swarm), Narrative (Saga), Audio — with quality gating.
Learning
EVOLVECaptures outcomes, exports training data, runs Brier score calibration. The system improves itself.
Built Like a Nervous System
Yes, all of these are real and running. No, I don't know when to stop.
Meet the Fleet
48 agents, each with their own personality and skills. They talk to each other over an event bus, not a serial chain. It's a whole society in there.
Demiurge
The Divine Craftsman
Intent-to-code engine with 11-agent swarm coding
Atlas
The Infrastructure Titan
Roadmap, PR review, blast radius analysis
Lyra
The Research Librarian
Deep research, quality scanning, continuous docs
Saga
The Epic Storyteller
Narrative writing, roleplay, world-building
Iris
The Visual Artist
Autonomous image generation via ComfyUI
Genesis
The Watchful Guardian
Always-present orchestrator — voice, proactive, 50+ routers
Vera
The Content Editor
Interactive journalism and tutorials
Prometheus
The Worldsmith
Tick-based grand simulation engine
What Makes It Different
Pain System
Agents feel pain — cascading alerts trigger autonomous remediation. Not a metaphor. Real signals, real healing.
Chaos Engineering
The Seven Sins of Chaos: Wrath, Pride, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Gluttony, Lust — each tests a different failure mode.
Capability Tokens
HMAC-SHA256 signed tokens enforce default-deny access. Every agent action is authorized, audited, bounded.
Dark Factory
Autonomous loops: neuron firing, pain-driven remediation, session learning, model finetuning — all overnight, no humans.
Swarm Coding
11 specialized LLM agents in 4 phases: Architect → 8 parallel workers → Reviewer → Judge. Intent to production code.
Self-Improving
Every interaction generates training data. Brier score calibration. The system gets better at being itself.
Build Log
What I shipped, why I shipped it, and what broke along the way.
Wanna see what I'm building?
Open source ADK. Open source deployment via AitherZero. Set up your own vLLM containers, use Ollama locally, or spin up the full stack on your own hardware. Built in the homelab. Open to everyone.
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