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DESIGN.md@docs/architecture from autonomous-ai/lampos is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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DESIGN.md file
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# Designing Autonomous — an OS for physical AI agents

Autonomous is an open-source OS that thousands of physical AI devices — different sensors,
actuators, and boards — can be built on without forking. This document defines the
architecture and the rules that make that possible. It is grounded in two battle-tested
systems: **Linux** (one kernel, every piece of hardware) and **Android** (one OS, thousands
of OEM devices).

## Three load-bearing principles

1. **Organize by interface, not by vendor.** A driver lives in the *subsystem* whose
   capability it provides (`motion`, `vision`, `audio`), never in a vendor folder. Adding the
   300th device changes one leaf, not the core. *(Linux `drivers/`.)*
2. **Two stability policies, by audience.** The contract facing skills and devices is a
   **frozen ABI**; the driver API behind it is **deliberately unstable and in-tree**, so when
   the core changes, every driver is fixed in the same commit. Out-of-tree is your problem;
   in-tree is ours — the flywheel that maximizes hardware support. *(Linux uapi + in-tree
   drivers; Android Treble vendor interface.)*
…

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autonomous-ai/lampos · 483 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

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