# Show HN: Agentic OS: one Rust Linux binary, one SQLite and sandbox per actor

> Source: <https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/>
> Published: 2026-09-20 19:07:07+00:00

meclaw is a framework for composing complex agentic systems, not just agents: fast, secure, ontology-grounded, auditable and made for agents to build with, in one Rust binary. Use it to try a new harness structure in an afternoon, to grow an agentic OS of your own, or to build the next thing before it has a name.

meclaw-os is the reference implementation: a complete agentic OS, grown on that substrate and nothing else.

Three things that make a meclaw agent unique. A voice cell that listens and speaks on a wire protocol built for it. A web cell that gives the assistant a display of its own, where it shows you instead of telling you. And a vault that keeps your secrets secret, with every cell inside a kernel sandbox.

meclaw talks to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and to MCP servers.

```
curl -fsSL https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/releases/latest/download/start.sh | sh
```

It asks for an OpenRouter key, grows the assistant and asks it one question. Set `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` first and it does not ask.

[Roadmap](https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/blob/main/ROADMAP.md) · [Contributing](https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) · [Discussions](https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/discussions) · [Blog](https://meclaw.ai/blog/)

MIT ([LICENSE-MIT](https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT)) or Apache 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](https://github.com/mmeyerlein/meclaw/blob/main/LICENSE-APACHE)), whichever you like.