Open Source / Karnelian

Toward an agentic operating environment.

What happens when agentic execution becomes a fundamental part of the software environment rather than an additional application layered on top?

Karnelian OS is an exploratory roadmap, not a publicly released operating system.

Research Roadmap← Karnelian ecosystem
Isometric conceptual system showing a model, agent, permission gates, workers and local servicesConceptual system study

Roadmap stages

Exploratory path

  1. 01Workspace harness and execution infrastructure.
  2. 02Developer orchestration and local environment integration.
  3. 03Expanded agent coordination and system services.
  4. 04Research into an integrated agentic operating layer.

Ecosystem

Karnelian initiatives

Active Development

KRNL CLI

Terminal-based developer orchestration and multi-repository workspace management.

Active Development

Karnelian Harness

Agent execution, runtime coordination, security, memory, and tool orchestration.

Research Roadmap

Karnelian OS

A long-term research direction toward an integrated agentic operating environment.