taOS the project focused OS built for AI collaboration
I have been building taOS, a self hosted operating system where you and AI agents work on projects together, and I wanted to share it and get some honest feedback.
The short version: it is a web desktop OS (windows, dock, files, an app store) that runs on your own hardware, anything from an Orange Pi up to a small cluster. The difference from a normal chat tool is that the agents are first class citizens of the OS. You deploy an agent and it gets its own identity, memory, and tools, and it lives alongside you in the workspace instead of in a throwaway chat tab.
Everything is organised around projects. You spin up a project, drop in agents, and they collaborate with you and with each other on it. There is a shared canvas next to the chat where an agent can show you a mockup, a comparison, or a set of options to pick from, plus a coordination bus so several agents can hand work back and forth without stepping on each other.
A few things I care about:
• Local first. Your data and your agents stay on your hardware. No cloud account required to use it.
• Framework agnostic. The agent harness is swappable, so you are not locked into one agent framework.
• Cluster aware. You can pair extra machines as workers and run agents and models across them.
• A real OS feel, not just a dashboard: themes, multi window, a mobile PWA, and an app store with things like an image studio and a browser.
It is still early and very much a work in progress, built mostly by me, so I would rather hear what is missing than oversell it. If you self host, or you have wanted your local models to actually do work for you instead of just answering questions, I would love to know what you would want from something like this.
Happy to answer anything in the comments.