Everything LifeOS is.
The ISA, the Algorithm, memory, skills, hooks, agents, security. The complete reference for running the Life Operating System.
The three docs that explain the whole system
New to LifeOS? Read these three in order and you'll know what the Life Operating System is, why it exists, and how its pieces fit together.
The ISA — Ideal State Articulation
The central primitive of LifeOS. One artifact that articulates done as testable claims, drives the build, verifies it, and records what was learned. Everything else in the system exists to create, sharpen, pursue, and verify ISAs.
The Algorithm — how LifeOS pursues an ISA
The ISA is the noun; the Algorithm is the verb. It runs every task as a hill-climb against the ISA's claims. Cortex persists what was learned. Skills compose capabilities. Hooks make the gates deterministic.
The interfaces you see and hear
Agents are the speakers; Pulse is the dashboard; Notifications surface signal; Observability proves it all worked.
CLI-first by design
Determinism beats prompts. The Tools subsystem documents how LifeOS puts code in front of LLM calls everywhere it can.
The Life-OS frame and the system spine
The Life-OS schema is how LifeOS represents you. Core Components maps the two-tier system; the Ledger tracks every change; the system/user boundary keeps your data yours.
The pipelines around the core
Arbol routes content through cloud workers. Feed aggregates intelligence sources. Fabric runs prompt patterns. Delegation parallelizes the workload.
Defense baked into the substrate
Security isn't a layer on top — it's a hook pipeline that runs on every tool call. Threat model, prompt-injection defense, and what actually executes.