Overview
AIOS is an AI-native operating environment designed to work completely offline. There is no cloud, no API keys, no telemetry — everything (models, maps, knowledge, your data) lives on the machine and keeps working with the network cable unplugged forever.
This manual is served by the dashboard itself and is fully offline. It documents how to use the
system; the design and architecture live in the docs/ folder of the source tree.
The two ways to drive it
- The dashboard — what you are looking at now (
aios serve). Tabs across the top: Map, Library, Assistant, Settings, Graph, and this Help. The 🏠 ApocOS brand is the Home link and returns you to the map. - The command line — the
aioscommand. Everything the system does is reachable from the CLI; the dashboard is a friendly surface over the same engine. See CLI reference.
What it can do offline
- Maps & field awareness — offline OpenStreetMap data, routing, terrain line-of-sight, best-site siting, comms coverage, GPS positioning. See Maps & geo.
- Local knowledge + an assistant that knows the machine — the Library looks things up grounded in man pages, RFCs, DevDocs, Wikipedia (ZIM); the Assistant converses and reasons over your code, projects, and this computer — all with no Internet. See Library & Assistant.
- Own your data — persistence onto a labelled disk, install-to-disk, health checks. See System & data.
- Offline security tools — a baked pentest / security toolset (nmap, aircrack, hashcat, sqlmap, searchsploit, …) for authorised use, working with zero connectivity. See Security tools.
First time here?
Start with Getting started, then How it works for the mental model and The dashboard for a tour of the interface. Stuck? See Troubleshooting.