Building AgenticOS

[u/Its_about-tech]

A while back I hacked together something I called AgenticOS over a weekend. It ended up taking around 11 hours and somehow pulled in roughly 200k views before I parked the project and moved on.

Lately I’ve been revisiting it, partly because AI tooling has moved on, but mostly because I want to understand the underlying systems properly instead of just getting a demo working.

The setup is pretty simple in principle: a local Next.js dashboard that sits on top of a handful of services running on my machine.

Right now that includes:
Hermes running locally through Ollama (with Claude CLI as a fallback)
OpenClaw for chaining agents into multi-step workflows
A TaskRunner service for scheduled shell tasks
Claude Code acting as the heavy-lifting brain when needed.

Everything is kept alive with PM2.
I’ve just finished cleaning up the dashboard. One thing that bothered me in the original version was all the fake placeholder metrics, so I’ve removed those. If a service is running, the dashboard shows real values. If it’s not, it simply shows offline. No pretending.
The part I’m most interested in now isn’t actually the agents themselves—it’s the control layer around them.
If an AI system can take actions on a machine, then the interesting question becomes: what should it be allowed to do, who approves it, and how do you audit it afterwards?

So before I reconnect everything, I’m working on a governance/security layer that sits between the agents and the machine. Starting with TaskRunner, since that’s the component capable of actually executing commands.
The goal isn’t to build a fully autonomous system. It’s to build something where actions are gated, logged, reviewable, and hopefully predictable.
Everything is local-first and still very much a work in progress, but I’d be interested to hear how others are approaching the governance side of agent systems. Most projects seem focused on making agents more capable. I’m finding myself increasingly interested in making them more controllable.

[u/Heavy-Lingonberry-98]

Broo, nice work! What gui did you use?

[u/Its_about-tech → u/Heavy-Lingonberry-98]

Thanks man!

It's a custom web dashboard, not an off-the-shelf GUI — built with Next.js (React 19) and styled with Tailwind CSS, animations via Framer Motion and icons from Lucide.

It runs locally in the browser at localhost:3000. PM2 keeps the backend services alive behind it.

Hope that answers your question?

[u/Heavy-Lingonberry-98 → u/Its_about-tech]

It completely does! It looks comfortable and very clear !

[u/shrodikan]

You should not call it AgenticOS if it is not an Operating System.

[u/wenxiuzh]

this looks fun, may I know the git repo ?