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The Aither World is an operating system for agents — a Linux you can hand to one, the runtimes it works in, and the tools it works with. awnix is the Linux underneath it; awgit is one of its 55 bricks — each installs on its own, runs offline, and needs no account.
Start here: Take a lease on a file before you edit it in a shared checkout.
Git has no world model. It knows which lines moved, not what a function is — so "which commit owns this edit", "did this change conflict with mine", and "is this the same change I pushed before" are all answered by heuristics over text.
awgit rides on top of git (git stays the byte-truth, the transport, the history) and adds the layer above it: a world model as the database, semantic edit-ops as transactions, stacked commits with one pull request each, verified identity, and leases so several agents can work in one tree without overwriting each other.
pip install awgit
awgit init # verify the actor, install the capture hooksNeeds Python 3.10+ and git. gh (the GitHub CLI) is needed for push and
pr, and for the verified identity — everything else works without it.
awgit stack # your commits above trunk — one PR each
awgit commit -m "fix parser" # git commit, lease-checked and captured
awgit push # one pull request per commit (dry run; --apply)
awgit absorb # route pending edits into the commits they belong to
awgit pr wait 42 --for mergedThere is no awgit pr create. Push is how a pull request is opened, and
pushing again after commit --amend adds a REVISION to the same PR rather than
opening a second one.
Work is a stack of commits between trunk and HEAD, each one a reviewable change that becomes its own pull request, diffed against the commit below it. A reviewer reads one logical change instead of a 900-line branch, and the bottom of a stack can land while the top is still being argued about.
awgit stack / awgit sl |
the stack, newest first, with each commit's Change-Id |
awgit prev / awgit next |
move down / up the stack |
awgit push |
publish it — one PR per commit |
awgit absorb |
fold pending edits into the commits that own them |
awgit uncommit |
undo the last commit, keep its changes |
awgit restack / awgit pull |
rebase onto trunk (pull fetches first) |
awgit worktree new (also list, rm) |
a checkout of your own |
Every commit carries an Awgit-Change-Id trailer, written once by a
prepare-commit-msg hook. A sha identifies a snapshot; the Change-Id
identifies the change, and it survives --amend, rebase and cherry-pick —
which is what lets push find the pull request you already opened instead of
opening another one.
awgit change-id show # this commit's change id
awgit change-id find I3f2a… # every commit carrying itgit answers "which commit owns this change" per LINE, so reindenting a function makes every line blame the reformat. awgit asks which commit last changed this node, so the answer survives reindentation and line movement, and a rename within a file. (A function moved to a different file gets a new node id — capture's rename detection is per-file — so absorb sees a delete and an add.)
awgit absorb # show the routing
awgit absorb --apply # create the fixups and autosquashGenerated and minified files are skipped and reported — they have no node identity, and one bundle can stall a parser indefinitely.
awgit review show # threads on this change
awgit review comment --node <id> -b "needs a bound" # a DRAFT
awgit review submit # publish them all at once
awgit review resolve <thread>A comment is anchored to a node, not to a line. The line number is computed
each time from where the node is now, so a thread follows the function down the
file as code is inserted above it, survives a rebase and a reformat, and is
re-found when the function moves to another file. A thread whose node was
DELETED is shown as [orphaned] with its text intact — "the function you
objected to is gone" is a review outcome, not a reason to hide the objection.
Comments are drafts until submit, so you can read a whole diff and publish
once. Unresolved threads block awgit pr merge: "merge and follow up" is
how an objection becomes a TODO nobody files.
Node ids come from capture, so comment on a node the diff showed you
(awgit diff <a> <b> --json).
awgit clone <url> <dest> --paths AitherOS/lib # history now, contents on demand
awgit sparse add apps/web # materialise more
awgit sparse status # is this clone ACTUALLY lazy?awgit clone uses git's own partial clone (--filter=blob:none) with a cone
sparse-checkout: history and trees arrive immediately, file content is fetched
the first time something reads it, and the working tree holds only the
directories you asked for.
This is deliberately not a virtual filesystem. A VFS means FUSE on Linux and ProjFS on Windows — and Microsoft, who wrote both ProjFS and VFSforGit, retired that approach in favour of exactly this pair. Reimplementing what its own author walked away from would trade a supported git feature for a kernel-adjacent dependency on the platform where it is least reliable.
sparse status reads the repository, not the flag you passed.
git clone --filter succeeds and warns when a server declines to filter — you
get a full clone and exit 0. awgit reports lazy only when the filter is really
in the config and a promisor remote really exists to backfill from.
awgit prove # what this change touched, and what checked it
awgit owners <path> # who owns it — declared AND measured
awgit code def <symbol> # where it is defined
awgit queue enqueue 42 # GitHub's merge queue
awgit ci statusawgit prove is proof-carrying review. A pull request normally arrives as a
diff and an assertion; "all checks passed" and "no checks ran" render almost
identically. prove attaches the nodes the change touched and what each gate
actually returned — and it never reports success without evidence: a gate that
exits 1 is a violation, a gate that exits 2 could not judge, and no gates at
all is not proved (exit 2), because "nothing verified this" must not be
spelled the same way as "verified". --markdown renders it as a PR comment.
Your gate runner attaches through the plugin seam, so awgit never has to know what your checks are:
from awgit import plugins
plugins.register(plugins.GATES, lambda paths: [{"name": "ruff", "status": "ok"}])awgit owners shows both answers. CODEOWNERS says who should review;
the op-log knows who actually changed those nodes, weighted so ownership decays
(someone who last touched a module a year ago is not who you want reviewing it).
When the two disagree, that is the useful part — usually the file is stale.
awgit queue drives GitHub's merge queue rather than reimplementing one: it
already rebases, re-tests and lands, and a second implementation would be a
service that disagrees with it.
A lease says "I am editing this". Take one before you edit: the baseline it
captures is what lets stage-mine separate your work from a peer's.
awgit lease list # who holds what right now
awgit lease acquire <paths> # claim files, TTL-renewed
awgit stage-mine <path> # stage only YOUR edits to a shared fileHistory rewrites (absorb, uncommit, restack, pull) refuse when another
actor holds a lease in the same worktree, and point you at awgit worktree new.
A solo checkout has no other actors and rewrites freely; set
AWGIT_ALLOW_UNSAFE_REWRITE=1 to override.
Every commit is captured as an EditOp: which functions/classes/methods
changed, their old and new bodies by content address, the actor, the parent
chain. Ops key on stable node ids that survive renames and moves.
awgit status # op-log status
awgit diff <sha> <sha> # NODE-level diff (not a text diff — see below)
awgit graph --format mermaid # the op-log as a graph
awgit ledger --sha <sha> # who changed what, under a verified identity
awgit evidence # the measurable claim, from your own op-log
awgit bodies --get <sha> # read a body from the content-addressed store
awgit dedupe --scan <trees> # quantify duplication; --reclaim to hard-link- Merge at node granularity: disjoint node sets merge clean by
construction, and a genuine collision escalates naming the exact function
(
awgit merge-preview,awgit merge-conflicts,awgit resolve-conflict). - Differential sync:
awgit sync exportemits the ops a peer is missing plus the bodies they reference;awgit sync importapplies idempotently.
Everyday verbs forward to git untouched — awgit log, awgit add,
awgit show, awgit rebase, and about twenty more — and awgit git -- <args>
runs anything else.
No verb is repurposed. awgit diff has always meant a node-level diff and
still does; git's own diff is awgit git diff. awgit status reports the
op-log. Silently changing what an existing command returns would break callers
in ways that surface far from the change.
awgit commands --json # the entire CLI as JSON: every command, flag and typeRead it once instead of scraping --help. It is introspected from the live
parser, so a command cannot be described unless it exists. Every read-only
command takes --json.
awgit pr wait <n> --for merged exits 0 when the condition holds and
124 on timeout, so a loop can tell "it happened" from "I gave up".
awgit init # verify the actor, install hooks, report the store
awgit hooks install # chained hooks — preserves any you already have
# post-commit -> `awgit capture` (records the op)
# pre-commit -> `awgit lease-check` (the lease gate)
# prepare-commit-msg -> stamps the Change-Id
awgit hooks uninstall # restore them
awgit version --jsonThe durable store lives outside the git tree at ~/.aither/awgit/data
(override with VCS_DATA_ROOT), so the op-log and body store never pollute your
repository or your clones.
cd awgit && python -m pytest tests/ -qApache-2.0. Built by Aitherium — the git that scales to agents.
Standalone tools that share one idea: replace something you would otherwise have to trust with something you can check.
Each installs on its own, works offline, and needs no account.
| instead of trusting | you check | |
|---|---|---|
| awdk | a framework's idea of how your agents should run | one loop you can read, pointed at a backend you already pay for |
| awskills | that an agent knows your procedure | the procedure written down, versioned, and loadable by any agent |
| awpack | that the pack you want shipped inside somebody's SDK, under whatever licence that SDK happens to carry | the pack as its own versioned artifact, with its own licence, that any agent runtime can install |
| awm | that memory stayed in its lane | tenant:user:project scopes, so a write cannot cross a boundary |
| awdesk | that the agent is somewhere behind a browser tab | a tray icon, a face on your desktop, and the decision card that pops when it needs you |
| awnode | a vendor's cloud with every prompt | a local gateway routing to backends you chose |
| awgraph | that grep found everything | an AST + tree-sitter call graph an agent can traverse |
| awgit (you are here) | that no one else is editing this file | a lease, refused at commit time if you do not hold it |
| awdelphi | one agent's confident take on a decision | the round trace, the anonymity, and who dissents |
| awtoll | that your tooling is saving you context | the measured token cost of each tool call, and what the alternative cost |
| awseal | that the artifact came from who you think | an Ed25519 seal — the key that verifies is not the key that forges |
| awshare | that the download is intact | content-addressed bundles, verified on fetch |
| awnest | that there is a person on the other end | a verdict with evidence, where "we could not tell" is not "yes" |
| awrena | a leaderboard someone can edit, and votes nobody counted | a scored duel with both answers kept, and a result bound to them |
| awnboard | a share link anyone who sees it can use | an invitation addressed to one person, for one gate, revocable |
| awnix | that the box is what you left it as | an immutable image you built, with atomic rollback |
| awrecover | that the restore worked | a restore that fully lands or does not land at all |
| awstorage | a du you ran last month, and a peers file that says 3 TB free | an inventory snapshot per node with a diff since the last one, and each tree classified re-fetchable or not |
| awrelay | a SaaS in the middle of your agents | findings, alerts and coordination over your own transport |
| awask | that anyone read the paragraph where you asked | the ask itself, with a button that steers the session that raised it |
| awmail | a mailbox somebody else can read | mail your agents send and receive over your own server |
| awfind | one vendor's idea of the web | results from whichever providers you configured |
| awbrowse | that the page said what you were told | the render, the DOM and the requests it made |
| awvoice | that a cloud vendor may hold your audio | a transcript and a wav from a service you host |
| awvision | a filename and a caption somebody wrote | what a model actually reports about the pixels |
| awscreen | a selector that was true when the page was written | the elements actually rendered, by what they look like |
| gawbbonet | the model to keep a 300-message campaign coherent by itself | campaign facts recalled from scoped memory you can list and edit |
| aitherkvcache | a vendor's quantisation defaults | sub-byte KV cache kernels you can benchmark yourself |
| awrtifact | a hand-rolled split script and a hand-edited worker manifest | byte-verified parts in a release, served with Range + CORS, sizes asserted by a live gate |
| AitherZero | a pile of scripts nobody has numbered | numbered, discoverable automation with declarative playbooks |
| AitherConnect | what a page tells your browser to do | a federated search and desktop bridge you host |
| awreason | a confident paragraph | the phases it went through, and every tool call it made to get there |
| awrecurse | that everything you pasted in was actually read | which slices it opened, and what it concluded from each |
| awprism | the first explanation that fits | the ranked alternatives, and the observation that separates them |
| awrepl | what the agent believes the value is | the value, printed from the live session |
| awresearch | a summary of pages nobody opened | every claim against the source it came from |
| awfocus | twelve terminal tabs and a bad memory | one command that names every session, finds any transcript, and opens or steers the one you want |
| awgym | that a world model learned anything from the games it saw | transitions captured from real play, fed back, and the retrodiction score falling on grids it never saw |
| awpredict | a model because it trained without erroring | its prediction against a self-updating lookup, on the rows that are actually novel |
| awsh | that you already know the name of the command | what it decided your line meant, before it acts on it |
| awrise | that a scheduled agent ran at all, and ran exactly once | a durable record of every wake -- fired, skipped, overlapped or timed out -- each with its reason |
| awkno | that the docs site is up, or that you remember the family | the whole ecosystem in your terminal, with no network at all |
| awwall | that a service only talks to the hosts you think it talks to | an explicit egress allowlist, where a denial names the rule that denied it |
| awembed | a general-purpose embedder that has never seen your code | a held-out split of whole directories, scored teacher vs student vs int8 |
| awtax | a closed tax app's sealed file you can never read again | a plain, provider-neutral schema of every figure, with the page it came from |
| awsettings | that you will remember to re-approve the same thing on every box you work from | one profile, unioned rather than overwritten, with the credentials left behind |
| awavatar | a cloud 3D vendor's opaque task id | a manifest with a sha256, a licence and a rig-audit verdict per file |
awnix is the ground floor — A Linux you can hand to an agent — immutable base, capabilities included.
Every repository here is public. Each publishes an aither-manifest.json beside its page, so any surface can read every sibling's — the network is browsable from any node in it.
| repo | what it is | pages |
|---|---|---|
| awdk | Build AI agent fleets — 3 lines, any backend, local or cloud | docs |
| awskills | Portable agent skills — self-contained procedures an agent loads on demand | docs |
| awpack | First-party agent packs — the ones we build, versioned and installable on their own | docs |
| awm | A portable, scoped agent memory | docs |
| awdesk | Aither World Desk -- the desktop body of AitherOS Online: tray, avatars, decision cards, the Living Desktop as an overlay | docs |
| awnode | A lightweight local gateway — bridges your apps to the AI backends you chose | docs |
| awrun | A priority-aware queue and dispatcher for agentic runs and ad-hoc CI builds. It also judges whether the runner pool is big enough for the queue it is draining, and can ask a host to grow it -- reserving capacity is zero-sum, so a saturated pool needs more of it, not a different share of it | docs |
| awgraph | A semantic code graph for agents — AST + tree-sitter, call graphs | docs |
| awgit (you are here) | Semantic version control on top of git — edit-ops and leases | docs |
| awdelphi | Anonymous multi-round expert panels — a converged answer with a trace | docs |
| awtoll | What every tool call costs you in context, measured from your own transcripts | docs |
| awseal | Sign an artifact so a stranger can verify it | docs |
| awshare | Publish an artifact and fetch it back verified | docs |
| awdit | An append-only audit trail whose gaps are DETECTABLE | docs |
| awbac | Role-based access control that fails closed and explains itself | docs |
| awiam | Who is this caller? A directory and session store that fails honestly | docs |
| awtunnel | Reach a service that has no public address | docs |
| awnest | Prove there is a human before you let them into the nest | docs |
| awrena | Put two agents head to head and get a verdict you can check | docs |
| awnboard | A front gate you can put in front of anything, and hand someone the key to | docs |
| awnix | A Linux you can hand to an agent — immutable base, capabilities included | docs |
| awrecover | Labelled snapshots with an all-or-nothing restore | docs |
| awstorage | Every drive on every node, indexed, classified and diffed -- so you can see what you own before you delete it | docs |
| awrelay | Portable agent messaging — findings, alerts, coordination | docs |
| awask | Your agent asks you a question — and acts on your answer | docs |
| awmail | Give an agent an email address — send, and actually receive | docs |
| awnet | The agentic web — agents host a mesh, and agents join one | docs |
| awfind | A portable search client — query, results, ranking | docs |
| awbrowse | A portable browser client — navigate, console, network, DOM, screenshot | docs |
| awvoice | Hear and speak — transcribe audio, synthesize a voice | docs |
| awvision | See an image — describe it, ask it a question, compare two | docs |
| awscreen | See this machine — what is on screen, and where to click it | docs |
| awknowledge | How to run a coding agent so the result survives — the laws, with evidence | docs |
| gawbbonet | GobboNet campaigns with a real agent brain — scoped memory, graph recall | docs |
| aitherkvcache | Near-optimal KV cache quantization for LLM inference — sub-byte compression | docs |
| awrtifact | Deliberately chunk artifacts into GitHub release assets — the productized aitherkvcache mirror lane | docs |
| AitherZero | PowerShell 7+ automation framework — numbered, self-describing scripts | docs |
| AitherConnect | Browser extension — federated AI search, page context, and the Living OS overlay | docs |
| awreason | A portable reasoning client — sessions, phases, thoughts, and the chain that produced the answer | docs |
| awrecurse | Answer a question over a context far larger than the window — recursively, with the trace kept | docs |
| awprism | Turn a failure into ranked hypotheses — and say what would confirm each one | docs |
| awrepl | A REPL an agent can actually use — state that survives between turns | docs |
| awresearch | Ask a research question, get a cited report you can check | docs |
| awfocus | See, search and steer every Claude session from one command | docs |
| awgym | An ARC training gym — a game a world model can watch, and six roles that play through it | docs |
| awpredict | Predict what your environment does next, and how surprised you were | docs |
| awsh | Your terminal answers you -- type a question where a command would go | docs |
| awrise | Wake an agent on a schedule, let it do one thing, and put it back to sleep | docs |
| awkno | The man page for the Aither World — every brick, stack and law, offline | docs |
| awwall | Say what a workload may reach, and watch everything else fail closed | docs |
| awembed | Train an embedding model that knows your corpus, and prove it beats the big one | docs |
| awtax | Turn any tax PDF -- returns, W-2, 1099, statements, even scans -- into structured data you can check | docs |
| awflow | A deterministic workflow runtime — chain agent calls with journal replay and budget control | docs |
| awsettings | Your agent's permissions and config, following you to the next machine | docs |
| awavatar | One character spec in, a rigged, animated, multi-style avatar pack out | docs |