Hyperion is the first intent-native operating system.
Philosophy
Your goals are the operating system. #
Every prior operating system asked you to manage proxies for what you wanted: a process, a file, a window, an application. Hyperion manages what you actually have.
- Processes
- Goals
- Threads
- Intentions
- Files
- Knowledge
- Windows
- Context
- Applications
- Memory, reasoning, capabilities
Why Hyperion
You shouldn't think like a computer. #
- Finding files
- Choosing applications
- Remembering workflows
- Managing folders
- Installing software
- Complex settings
Hyperion clears all of that away and gets to work.
Architecture
You speak. Everything else listens. #
Hyperion is built in layers, each one building on the one below it. Closer to the hardware, it's fast and safe. Closer to you, it understands what you mean.
Kernel · Where it begins
The hardware layer everything else stands on. It's open source, so its safety claims are checkable.
Kernel · Where it begins
The hardware layer everything else stands on. It's open source, so its safety claims are checkable.
Capability-secured from the ground up: nothing crosses a trust boundary without an explicit, revocable grant.
System runtime · How it stays fast and safe
Schedules work across CPU, GPU, memory, and battery, keeping every process in its own boundary.
System runtime · How it stays fast and safe
Schedules work across CPU, GPU, memory, and battery, keeping every process in its own boundary.
A unified scheduler balances compute, inference tokens, and context windows, the way earlier operating systems balanced CPU and RAM.
Platform services · What it's built from
Reusable capabilities, storage, updates, and networking.
Platform services · What it's built from
Reusable capabilities, storage, updates, and networking.
Capabilities are Hyperion's replacement for the application: a declared contract, a trust level, and one or more interchangeable implementations.
Knowledge · What it knows and remembers
Your information, connected by meaning.
Knowledge · What it knows and remembers
Your information, connected by meaning.
Every document, photo, message, or project is a Semantic Object with typed relationships to everything else: a knowledge graph standing in for folders and filenames.
Cognition · Where it thinks
Understands what you're asking for, recalls what's relevant, and picks the right model for the job.
Cognition · Where it thinks
Understands what you're asking for, recalls what's relevant, and picks the right model for the job.
The Intent Engine turns language into a graph of sub-goals. The Context Engine attaches what already exists (a calendar event, a past conversation). The Model Router picks local or cloud reasoning per task.
Coordination · How the work gets organized
When a goal needs more than one specialist, this layer decides who does what, and keeps a record of why.
Coordination · How the work gets organized
When a goal needs more than one specialist, this layer decides who does what, and keeps a record of why.
Multi-agent orchestration assigns sub-goals to specialized agents and resolves conflicts between them. Every decision is logged for you to inspect.
Experience · What you see and say
Conversation, generated screens, and voice: the only parts of Hyperion you directly touch.
Experience · What you see and say
Conversation, generated screens, and voice: the only parts of Hyperion you directly touch.
The Dynamic UI Runtime assembles a Workspace on demand for whatever you're doing, then tears it down when you're done. Accessibility is built into that runtime.
How Hyperion works
You only need one sentence. #
You never pick an application. You say what you need, and Hyperion figures out the rest, visibly and explainably.
“Help me prepare for tomorrow's interview.”
Reads your calendar, your resume, and past notes. You don't repeat yourself.
- Company research
- Practice questions
- Flashcards
- A timer
- The job posting
“I need to launch my startup.”
Breaks one goal into a plan, and starts on what's ready first.
- Market research
- Business plan
- Branding
- Entity formation
- A website
- Launch checklist
“Create a social media graphic from these photos.”
Instead of: open Photoshop, open Finder, export PNG, save as.
- Photos selected
- Layout composed
- Export ready
Live console
You can watch it run. #
Every session below is copied from an actual hyperion-console run. Nothing here was written for the page.
A new user's first session
Hyperion remembers what you told it a moment ago, breaks one goal into several tasks, and can hand back any single result by name.
> my name is Alex✓ status: done -- [mock model 1] echo: my name is Alex> what is my name✓ status: done -- [mock model 1] echo: Recent conversation, most recent last:
my name is Alex
Now respond to: what is my name> launch my startup✓ market_research: Done
business_model: Done
branding: Done
legal_formation: Done> /result market_research"market_research"'s real result, recorded just now:
[mock model 1] echo: Provide a concise research summary about market_research -- launch my startup. ...
scenarios/onboarding-new-user-launches-startup.txt
Watching the knowledge graph grow
One command shows what Hyperion has learned, before and after it acts, as a graph you can inspect yourself.
> /graphThe knowledge graph is empty -- nothing recorded yet.> launch my startup✓ market_research: Done
business_model: Done
branding: Done
legal_formation: Done> /graph9 nodes:
[0] intent -- you asked: "launch my startup" (90% confident)
[1] intent -- a planned task: market_research
[2] intent -- a planned task: business_model
[3] intent -- a planned task: branding
[4] intent -- a planned task: legal_formation
[8] task_result -- a result: [mock model 1] echo: Provide a concise research summary...
7 edges:
[5] 2 --depends_on--> 1 (weight 1.00)
[9] 1 --produced--> 8 (weight 1.00)
scenarios/knowledge-graph-growth-audit.txt
One question, three models
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Groq each answer the same question in the same session, switched live with no restart.
> /backend openai gpt-4o-mini✓ Switched to the openai (model "gpt-4o-mini") backend.> what is the smallest country in the world by land area✓ status: done -- The smallest country in the world by land area is Vatican City. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres) or about 0.17 square miles...> /backend anthropic claude-haiku-4-5-20251001✓ Switched to the anthropic (model "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001") backend.> what is the smallest country in the world by land area✓ status: done -- # The Smallest Country in the World by Land Area
**Vatican City** is the smallest country in the world by land area, with only about **0.44 square kilometers**...> /backend groq llama-3.3-70b-versatile✓ Switched to the groq (model "llama-3.3-70b-versatile") backend.> what is the smallest country in the world by land area✓ status: done -- The smallest country in the world by land area is the Vatican City, with an area of approximately 0.44 km² (0.17 sq mi)...
scenarios/cloud-provider-comparison.txt
A node that can't translate, asks one that can
Six real, separately-launched hyperion-console processes discover each other over real mDNS, each backed by a different real cloud model (Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq) -- no human ever names a host, port, or peer.
> /backend groq llama-3.1-8b-instant✓ Switched to the groq (model "llama-3.1-8b-instant") backend.> /mesh-request 9106 translate-ja say hello in JapaneseI don't have "translate-ja" myself, so I asked kenji._hyperion-a2a._tcp.local. (127.0.0.1:9101), which does. It replied: status: done -- こんにちは (Konnichiwa)
This is a common way to say "hello" in Japanese, used during daytime hours. Other greetings include:
- おはよう (Ohayou) - good morning
- こんばんは (Konbanwa) - good evening
(Trusting 127.0.0.1:9101's identity for the first time: 46c559994406105160c06ed3e3182cbe229d2dd27dee297afc2fbf70745dc0d1.)
Features
You will notice the difference. #
You never have to remember where you saved something.
Everything is connected by meaning, so you can always find it.
Hyperion assembles the right tools automatically.
Capabilities are selected and composed for the goal. You never choose an app.
It can always tell you why.
Why, how, with what evidence, at what confidence, and how to undo it, on demand.
Your data stays on your device, by default.
The cloud is an explicit, consented upgrade.
It grows as you do.
Beginners see plain language and guided steps; experts get the shell, the API, the shortcuts.
You can always undo it.
Every action is interruptible, and every change can be rolled back.
Getting started
You can read every line of it. #
Grab a signed, ready-to-flash release image, or build every layer yourself from source.
- 1 Download the image
Every tagged release publishes a ready-to-flash x86_64 disk image on GitHub Releases.
hyperion-x86_64-<version>.img
- 2 Flash it with balenaEtcher
Open Etcher, select the downloaded .img and your USB drive, and flash. Etcher writes the raw image directly and verifies the write afterward.
- 3 Verify the signature (optional, recommended)
Every image ships with an Ed25519-signed manifest you can check independently before you trust it.
cargo run --release -p hyperion-release-gate --bin verify-release -- \
hyperion-x86_64-<version>.img hyperion-x86_64-<version>.img.release.json
- 4 Boot it
Boot the target machine from the USB drive (usually a one-time boot-menu key like F12/F10/Esc) and select it.
Documentation
You can check our work. #
Open source
You can verify every claim we make #
Trusting an operating system with your goals, your memory, and the authority to act on your behalf can't rest on a vendor's word alone: it has to be checkable. The kernel, the scheduler, the IPC layer, and the platform services underneath everything are open source from day one, under the MIT license.