KnoxOSpre-releaseThe operating
system that
thinks with you.
KnoxOS moves SI out of userspace and into the kernel. KnoxDE dissolves the 1973 desktop metaphor into a single living surface that perceives, comprehends and acts — alongside you.
one coherent mesh
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Living primitives
ABI-compatible
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Linux syscalls
perceive → learn
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Cognition loop
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Rust
SI is not bolted on.
It is the operating system.
Every desktop since 1973 assumes the user is the orchestrator and SI is a guest application — never touching the scheduler, the compositor, or the service bus. KnoxOS rewrites the contract.
A new vocabulary
for computing.
KnoxDE replaces windows, taskbars, file managers and terminals with five primitives that could only exist in a world where the OS can perceive, comprehend, and act.
Presence spectrum
Presence, not position.
A Facet is a chromeless, SI-aware content viewport. Its importance is expressed as luminosity along a continuous spectrum — Focal, Active, Peripheral, Dissolved, Dormant — rendered with atmospheric depth instead of drop shadows.
Capabilities
- Spring physics
- Atmospheric depth
- Living color
- Chromeless
Spring physics · Atmospheric depth · Breathe → Flow → Connect
The Cognition Loop.
A continuous five-stage loop runs at the core of the system — perceiving, comprehending, preparing, acting, and learning. Your role is to direct, not to orchestrate.
Cognition Loop
Continuous SI decision-making. Adaptive. Predictive. Personal.
Perceive
Observe user activity, input, gaze, and context.
SI decision-making
- Capture multimodal signals
- Filter noise
- Identify relevant cues
- Build context snapshot
The loop never stops
Cognition-native,
top to silicon.
From the five primitives down to the hardware, every layer of KnoxOS is a module boundary inside one bare-metal Rust crate — with SI woven through all of it.
User Experience
The five primitives
KnoxUI
Declarative · Reactive · GPU-native
Cognition Loop
The heart of KnoxOS
Mesh Compositor
Unifies surfaces, streams & spaces
Kernel Subsystems
Rust-native system core
Hardware
The physical foundation
From rectangles
to resonance.
The Cognition Mesh trades the hard, static surfaces of traditional desktops for depth, motion, and light that respond to you.
Depth
Drop shadows → Atmospheric depth
Project Files
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Project Files
24 items
Atmospheric depth
Blur, desaturation, layered space
Motion
Instant, linear → Spring physics
Spring physics
Natural, responsive motion
Color
Static themes → Living palette
Living palette
Adaptive, evolving color system
Shape
Hard rectangles → Organic form
Organic form
Breathing edges, natural flow
Typography
Fixed, unchanging → Presence type
System Settings
Manage your preferences
System Settings
Tailored to you, in the moment
Presence type
Responsive, contextual, alive
Status
Icon badges → Luminosity
Luminosity
Ambient awareness, not intrusive
Beauty on the surface.
Substance in the kernel.
Here is what makes the Cognition Mesh possible — engineered from the first instruction up.
First-class kernel SI
The SI runtime participates in scheduling, compositing and the service bus — not a userspace guest bolted onto a 1973 model.
Linux ABI compatible
~400 syscalls translated or emulated, with ELF, musl, Flatpak and AppImage loaders.
Rust across the stack
Kernel, runtime, compositor and toolchain in one bare-metal crate.
$ cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-noneUniversal tool calling
An OS-wide tool registry lets the cognition layer orchestrate capabilities across every application — the system composes, you direct.
NPU compute routing
A vendor abstraction routes inference to the NPU, with queued Candle and internal backends.
Supply-chain hardened
Capability-based security, guardian and privacy controls, and audit gates in CI so trust is verified, not assumed.
The mesh is forming.
The kernel, runtime, compositor, and toolchain are being built around one idea: the operating system should understand intent, prepare outcomes, and let the human direct the result.
Type an intent — or just press Intend — and watch the cognition loop resolve it.