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Maia OS

Concepts

Maia OS is a fully open-source personal AI operating system and application platform. A person can run a Maia node, connect desktop, mobile, web, and CLI clients, and keep control of data and network. The optional managed control plane is not required for a self-hosted node.

One node, one brain

A logical Maia node is one sovereignty domain. A personal node is the normal authority for one person. An organization node is the normal authority for one company. Clustering processes does not create several brains.

The headless node is the durable authority. Clients authenticate to it and keep cache-backed views. They are not a second source of truth.

Build and peer surfaces

Build is the complete user-facing ADE. Peer surfaces are Teammates, Rooms, Routines, Skill Studio, Activity, and Advanced → Runtime Extensions. They are client surfaces over one node. They are not separate backends or harnesses.

Foundation chain

Product work lands in this order:

  1. maia-node
  2. versioned protocol
  3. @maia/sdk
  4. built JSON maia CLI
  5. a real scenario with evidence

This public site is presentation only. It is not on that chain.

Status vocabulary

These labels are the AGENTS.md vocabulary. This site does not invent a sixth label.

| Label | Meaning | | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Implemented | Shipped through the documented public surface and covered by release gates | | Source-implemented candidate | Code exists but is unavailable until named qualification gates pass | | Planned | Accepted or proposed target; no implementation claim | | Unsupported | Deliberately unavailable for the named version/platform/capability | | Deprecated | Still compatible for a bounded period with a documented replacement and removal condition |

No current public surface on this site is implemented. Callable CLI and node foundations are source-implemented candidates with current executable evidence. That evidence is not product enablement. Deprecated is unused on this host.

What is not enabled

Skills, Teammates, Rooms, Routines, Runtime Extensions, Activity, approvals, resource admission, offline Skill bundle sync, Desktop/mobile parity, and terminal or session candidates are not currently enabled product behavior.

See Getting started, Node, Protocol, SDK, the CLI notes, and Product Surfaces. Canonical repository rules live in AGENTS.md. CLI authority lives in the CLI README and the apps README.