NueOS is a local-first Agent OS application for everyday people and families.
概览
It lives on your machine, learns how you work, and gets better the longer you use it. Open source. Self-hosted. Yours. This is the Nous monorepo — the full codebase that builds into the desktop apps (macOS, Linux, Windows) and the web app. Maintained by Orthogonal. : Active development. v1 launches in weeks. Contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Nous is a local-first AI agent. It composes foundation models into a personal assistant that actually does things for you — routing tasks to the right model, learning from outcomes, and getting better over time. Easy enough for your family to use. Powerful enough for engineers and business owners to rely on. Four cognitive layers, modeled on how the human brain organizes intelligence. - — the open registry for agent skills. Works across every major agent ecosystem. 5,000+ skills indexed. - — papers and the thinking behind the lab. This repo references four private submodules under .architecture/, .worklog/, .skills/, and .
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Nous
Your personal assistant.
Finally, an AI that’s actually yours.
It lives on your machine, learns how you work, and gets better the longer you use it. Open source. Self-hosted. Yours.
This is the Nous monorepo — the full codebase that builds into the desktop apps (macOS, Linux, Windows) and the web app. Maintained by Orthogonal.
Status: Active development. v1 launches in weeks. Contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.
What Is Nous
Nous is a local-first AI agent. It composes foundation models into a personal assistant that actually does things for you — routing tasks to the right model, learning from outcomes, and getting better over time.
Easy enough for your family to use. Powerful enough for engineers and business owners to rely on.
Architecture
Four cognitive layers, modeled on how the human brain organizes intelligence.
| Layer | Role |
|---|---|
| Cortex | Decision, reflection, governance, escalation |
| Memory | Short-term, long-term, distillation, retrieval, knowledge indexing |
| Subcortex | Model routing, tools, workflows, multi-agent orchestration, sandbox, witness chain |
| Autonomic | Storage, embeddings, health, config, runtime |
Ecosystem
- APM — the open registry for agent skills. Works across every major agent ecosystem. 5,000+ skills indexed.
- Orthogonal Research — papers and the thinking behind the lab.
Tech Stack
| Language | TypeScript 5 (strict, ESM) |
| Runtime | Node.js 22+ |
| Packages | pnpm v10 workspace monorepo |
| Build | tsdown (libraries), electron-vite (desktop), Next.js (web) |
| Persistence | SQLite via better-sqlite3 |
| Validation | Zod — runtime schemas as single source of truth |
| RPC | tRPC v11 (web ↔ CLI) |
| Desktop | Electron 34, React 19, dockview-react v4 |
| Web | Next.js 14+ |
| Lint | oxlint (not eslint) |
| Test | vitest |
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安装
npx skillfish add orthogonalhq/nous-core