Operating system for AI-native devices

BEROUN

Not AI inside an operating system.
An operating system built around AI.

Beroun is a Linux-based OS with its own model for managing applications, hardware, and an AI assistant. The assistant is not a guest here: it is the system's manager. The owner sets the rules. It is designed for developers building the next generation of intelligent devices.

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The problem

Today's systems weren't designed for AI agents.

Most operating systems were built for people to operate directly. AI assistants are guests inside them, constrained by permissions, interface conventions, and limited access to the device.

Mobile systems

Assistants run inside a sandbox and ask for every step. They cannot install an app, configure the network, keep a background job on their own schedule, or take the screen when something is urgent.

Desktop agents

Agents imitate a person by reading screenshots and clicking coordinates. It is slow, it breaks with every interface update, and the agent gets the whole computer rather than a part of it.

Cloud chat

A chat can answer questions, but it has no hands, no memory of the device, and no environment of its own. It works while you type.

The common root cause

The operating system does not know an assistant is working inside it. It gives the assistant what it would give any other program, so the assistant has to work around the system instead of through it.

The approach

A system designed around its AI assistant.

Beroun starts from a simple fact: a device now has two inhabitants, a person and an assistant. Applications, hardware and network are built so the assistant can manage them directly, and the person can see and direct that management.

Native environment

The assistant uses system interfaces instead of mimicking a person in front of a screen.

A manager, not a guest

It installs apps, runs services, and looks after the device's memory, power and network.

Device boundary

Everything the assistant manages lives in this system. The owner's wider digital life stays outside it.

The person

Owner

Sets the rules and the boundaries of trust, decides which accounts and data to hand over, sees everything that happens, and can always do the same by hand.

The assistant

Manager

Runs the system: applications, services, network, memory, power, updates. Works in the background and decides when the owner needs to hear from it.

Beroun

System

Gives the manager direct means to do all of this, watches resources, and holds the boundary.

At a glance

One coherent model for the whole device.

6system models

1manifest for apps, services and agents

22interface languages

12apps on the first device

Application model

Page, manifest, service. One shared window, a state contract, services that outlive the window.

Hardware model

One hardware layer, system buttons, power and sleep, a memory budget that holds.

Network model

Wi-Fi as a system service, profiles and access points, network time, system notifications.

Agent model

App agents declared in the manifest, tasks with a life cycle, a bridge to A2A.

Storage model

The owner's home on the memory card, app state and system data kept apart.

System API

Message boxes, sounds, vibration, notifications and the clock, for apps and the assistant alike.

The system's coordinator

Meet Caroline.

Caroline accepts tasks, selects suitable specialists, follows execution, and asks the owner for clarification when needed. She is part of the system, not an app: her service is never stopped for memory, runs while the device sleeps, and may take the screen. One button brings her up with a live face and voice, over whatever is open.

One dispatcher. Clear tasks. Observable outcomes.

Voice and a faceLong-term memoryDrives every appEvery action signed

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