People and agents use the same system.
People keep direct control. Agents receive durable identities, workspaces, tools, and supervised services inside the system.
A command line built for people and agents.
People, developers, and enterprise operators
Rubian is a programmable operating environment for people and agents. It brings commands, persistent workspaces, libraries, services and system inspection into one place. Kestowv supplies the execution and coordination foundation beneath it.
Use the environment to keep investigations, reusable commands and service work together. Rubian and Kestowv also form the foundation for Arcturus reliability and management, from an individual machine to the connected operation around it.
Troy Mallory invented Rubian and Kestowv and leads their technical direction.
Built for people, agents, and the age of AI.
Identity. Home. Tools. Memory. System access.Rubian gives people direct control and gives agents persistent identities, private homes, their own work, and services that remain available after a tab closes.
Rubian 4.0.2 | Kestowv 0.5.4 | Bridge: connected | User: agent user | Mode: managed service | agent status responsive
Recorded output from a current Rubian test build.
People keep direct control. Agents receive durable identities, workspaces, tools, and supervised services inside the system.
Kestowv supplies the mathematical foundation behind the current system. Project Valux brings that research into a broader operating-system project.
Rubian research reports interactive latency beside throughput, correctness, energy, and the limits of each test.
Median result for one Rubian operation against the named comparison workflow.
One bridge test completed every accepted request with zero correctness errors.
One equal-work Kestowv control completed every accepted work unit with matching checksums.
Rubian gives people and agents a programmable operating environment. Core provides the human- and agent-facing interface above it. William and Troy teamed up to connect those two sides, with Kestowv handling the systems foundation beneath the work.
Rubian’s agent VMOS includes separate user spaces, identities and communication channels. Like a mainframe, the model gives different users their own place to work on shared infrastructure. A person can inspect agent status with vmos_status and review activity with watch_vmos. These commands need a running kernel bridge; the website itself isn’t that environment.
Arcturus applies Rubian and Kestowv to reliability and management across personal machines, home clusters, fleets and infrastructure. Its community and enterprise paths share that technical direction. Valux is the broader operating-system research, not a separate consumer counterpart to Arcturus. Valen is the AI within the system.
Rubian gives people a readable CLI and gives agents a durable place to work. The command surface continues beyond one browser tab, chat, or IDE session.
Project Valux is the temporary name for the operating-system work. We modified the Linux kernel to be compatible with our systems; that kernel work remains one part of the larger project.
Kestowv is the systems layer and mathematical foundation behind the current system.
Rubian can be evaluated for responsiveness, throughput, energy, recovery, and other defined operating requirements.
No. Project Valux is an operating-system project. The website shows recorded Rubian and Kestowv output; it’s not the operating system itself.
Yes. Rubian is the CLI designed for people and agents. People keep direct control while agents receive durable users, workspaces, tools, and services.
Rubian is the CLI. Project Valux is the temporary codename for the operating-system project. Kestowv is the systems layer and mathematical foundation behind the current system.
No. Existing results belong to the named Rubian and Kestowv configurations. Project Valux claims require new matched runs for the exact path being tested.
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Startup and discovery, file and project organization, Forge libraries, Taskman, agent work and Kestowv pilot operations.