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Conventional OSes are built for apps, while future tenants of OS might be AI agents.

This project, AOHP (Android Open Harness Project), aims to reengineer Android with native support for AI agents.

Remarkably, it introduces the idea of "user-defined apps", in which the apps are automatically generated based on personalized user intents rather than predefined by developers. The functions of generated apps are backed by agents under the hood.

I think it may change the role of developers. Perhaps in the near future, instead of developing apps, developers should work on something lower-level, such as widgets, services, capabilities, skills, etc. All frontend apps are generated from the low-level components. Not sure whether it will be a good thing for developers, and how the monetization may work...

Traditional OS puts apps at the center. Users navigate developer-defined app interfaces to do everything, which may be tedious and distracting.

We introduce AOHP (short for Android Open Harness Project), aiming to redesign the OS for agent-mediated adaptive user interfaces.

Specifically, AOHP introduces user-defined apps, which are generated based on the user's actual needs and are backed by AI agents under the hood. The agents use system APIs, CLIs and GUI-based apps in the background to compose actual services.

To make such experience feasible, efficient and secure. Many components in the system and framework layers have to be redesigned, but not all. That's why we introduce AOHP, an OS-level agent harness to enable personalized, efficient and secure interaction.

Future OS may not need app developers?

AOHP: An Agent-native OS built on AOSP