gAIOS — your personal AI Operating System

Clone it, run /setup, and it becomes yours in Claude Code or Codex — a second brain + Chief of Staff that holds your context, structures your work, drafts in your voice, and runs reliable workflows.

Open-source and opinionated — complete out of the box, not a blank slate. Fork it and make it yours for any role, company, or domain.

Quick start

  1. Clone this folder to your machine.
  2. Open it in Claude Code or Codex and run /setup (in Codex: invoke the setup skill or just ask it to "run setup").
  3. Answer the guided interview (identity, voice, priorities, stack, team, guardrails). It fills CLAUDE.md, context/, references/voice.md, and connections.md.
  4. Try the first prompt: "what should I focus on this week?"

Not sure what to write? Skim examples/ first — directional guides by role (founder, ops, regulated medtech, creator, sales) that show the shape of a filled gAIOS. They're direction, not data — you won't copy them.

Runtime compatibility (Claude Code · Codex · others) is summarized in Compatibility below.

What's inside (the architecture)

The Four Cs — Context (knows your business) · Connections (reaches your stuff) · Capabilities (knows how to do the work) · Cadence (runs without being asked).

The Three Ms — Mindset · Method · Machine (references/3ms-framework.md). Both frameworks inspired by Nate Herk's work — see NOTICE.

WAT — Workflows · Agents · Tools. Probabilistic AI reasons; deterministic code executes. Boring, testable, auditable.

Features (all included):

  • /structure — turn any fuzzy input into a clear brief.
  • /triage · /daily · /weekly — the Cadence layer: batch-sort an inbox, get a focused daily brief, run a weekly operating review.
  • /wiki — a second brain: drop notes in raw/, get clean cross-linked knowledge in wiki/ (with a leakage-scanning lint gate).
  • /graph · /graph-query · /graph-ingest — a knowledge graph (graphify) over your code + wiki/: build/visualize it, query relationships, and ingest external sources into the second brain.
  • /draft · /prep · /decide — Chief-of-Staff core: draft comms in your voice, prep a one-page brief for any meeting/person, and frame + log a decision.
  • /workflow — dynamic workflows: goal-driven, composable, self-verifying pipelines with a quality gate per step.
  • /experiment — an autoresearch loop (try → measure → keep/revert → log), with a runnable forecast example.
  • /exec-cockpit — a leadership-transition / exec-cockpit template.
  • tools/ — deterministic Python (branded-HTML renderer, wiki lint, experiment log).
  • Operating discipline baked into CLAUDE.md (think-before-acting, simplicity, surgical changes, goal-driven, verify-before-done).
  • A brand kit template (brand-assets/) so outputs render on-brand.

Structure

CLAUDE.md            ← the operating manual (filled by /setup)
AGENTS.md            ← Codex / cross-tool runtime bootstrap (mirrors CLAUDE.md's rules)
examples/            ← directional guides by role (what good looks like; not pre-filled data)
context/             ← about you, the business, the team, priorities
wiki/  · raw/        ← second brain (wiki committed; raw git-ignored)
projects/            ← active workstreams
experiments/         ← autoresearch harness (+ runnable forecast example)
tools/               ← deterministic Python (WAT execution layer)
references/sops/     ← workflows / SOPs (incl. dynamic-workflows + examples)
references/          ← 3ms framework, voice, API guides
brand-assets/        ← CI/CD template (tokens + preview)
connections.md       ← registry of systems the AIOS can reach
decisions/log.md     ← append-only decision record
.claude/skills/      ← /setup, /structure, /triage, /daily, /weekly, /wiki, /graph, /graph-query, /graph-ingest, /draft, /prep, /decide, /workflow, /experiment, /exec-cockpit, /onboard, /audit, /level-up
.codex/skills/       ← symlink → .claude/skills (so Codex discovers the same skills)

See EXPANSIONS.md for what to add as you grow.

Customize for your domain

The Guardrails block in CLAUDE.md ships with safe defaults. Set your sensitive-data line and compliance rules (GDPR / HIPAA / SOC2 / medical-device / …) during /setup — don't run the defaults unchanged for a regulated business.

Knowledge graph (graphify)

gAIOS integrates graphify — it turns your code + committed wiki/ into a navigable, queryable knowledge graph (interactive graph.html, a GRAPH_REPORT.md of god-nodes & surprising connections, and an MCP server). Build it with /graph, ask it with /graph-query, and feed external sources into your second brain with /graph-ingest.

python tools/graphify_setup.py install   # installs graphify + wires the Claude Code & Codex skills (also offered by /setup)

Code is processed locally; only the de-identified wiki/ is sent to your host AI session for extraction (never raw//.env/.tmp/), and graphify-out/ is git-ignored. Details: references/graphify-api.md · SOP: references/sops/knowledge-graph.md.

Compatibility

gAIOS runs on any agentic coding tool that reads a project-instructions file. Claude Code is first-class; Codex / Codex CLI is supported via AGENTS.md.

Runtime Reads gAIOS workflows (skills) Status
Claude Code CLAUDE.md Native slash skills (/setup, /structure, …) in .claude/skills/ ✅ First-class
Codex / Codex CLI AGENTS.md → points it to CLAUDE.md + context/ Auto-discovered from .codex/skills (symlink → .claude/skills), or invoke by name ✅ Supported
Other agents (Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, …) AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md Ask for a workflow by name; the agent reads the matching .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md or references/sops/ ⚠️ Works via instructions

Using gAIOS in Codex: open the repo in Codex CLI — it loads AGENTS.md automatically, which directs it to CLAUDE.md and context/ and restates the hard guardrails. Project skills load from .codex/skills (a symlink to .claude/skills); on Windows without symlink support, the agent reads .claude/skills/ directly as instructed in AGENTS.md. Configure MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml and keep secrets in .env. Details: AGENTS.md.

One source of truth: CLAUDE.md holds the canonical, /setup-filled content; AGENTS.md mirrors its rules for other runtimes and defers to it on any conflict.

License & attribution

gAIOS is © 2026 Alireza Rezvani, MIT-licensed (see LICENSE). It is inspired by Nate Herk's AIS-OS starter kit and his Three Ms / Four Cs frameworks, which are credited as inspiration (see NOTICE); those framework names are Nate Herk's trademarks. Everything in this repo — the WAT integration, second-brain wiki, autoresearch harness, dynamic workflows, Operating discipline, and the tools — is Alireza Rezvani's work. Please keep the inspiration credit to Nate Herk.