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StereOS — AI skill for Claude Code

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A Linux based operating system hardened and purpose built for AI agents.

How to install StereOS

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open papercomputeco/stereOS and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What StereOS does

A Linux based operating system hardened and purpose built for AI agents.

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README

stereOS 🧃

A Linux based operating system hardened and purpose-built for AI agents.
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Mixtapes

stereOS produces machine images - called **mixtapes** - that bundle a hardened, minimal Linux system with specific AI agent harnesses.

Mixtape	Agent binary	API key
`opencode-mixtape`	`opencode`	`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` or `OPENAI_API_KEY`

Each mixtape appends its agent package to `stereos.agent.extraPackages`, which adds the binary to the agent user's restricted PATH. The `-dev` variant of each mixtape includes `profiles/dev.nix` for local SSH key injection.

System

The stereOS system is minimal in nature with several orchestration daemons handling agent lifecycle and acting as a control plane for agent operators:

admin user and group for administrative operations: /home/admin
agent user and group for agent to assume: /home/agent/workspace
`stereosd` - stereOS system daemon
`agentd` - agent management daemon

Image formats

Format	Build attribute	Output	Use case
Raw EFI	`system.build.raw`	`stereos.img`	Canonical artifact. Apple Virt Framework bootable
QCOW2	`system.build.qcow2`	`stereos.qcow2`	Derived from raw via `qemu-img convert`. QEMU/KVM
Kernel artifacts	`system.build.kernelArtifacts`	`bzImage`, `initrd`, `cmdline`, `init`	Direct-kernel boot (bypasses UEFI/GRUB)
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