Veda is an operating system built around an integrated conversational agent that is a first-class system user rather than an add-on assistant. The agent is voice-first, asleep until named, uses Deepgram Voice Agent for recognition and LM services, and works on structured functions that describe every application's actions and state. Applications expose typed actions and state so the agent can invoke them without screen scraping; actions are classified as routine, sensitive, or destructive and the system enforces consent (with held prompts shown in the agent UI or notifications). Context (windows, app state, user memory) is provided to the agent at each conversation, memory is stored locally and user-controllable, and audio is engineered for real-time interaction with echo cancellation and ducking.
Veda is implemented from scratch in Rust and targets x86-64 (runs in QEMU/VirtualBox). It uses a capability-based microkernel (vkernel) that handles isolation, IPC and scheduling while drivers, services and the window system run in user space and are supervised by init. The desktop is a compositing window manager using OpenGL ES 3.0 for GPU-backed composition where available, includes a toolkit and agent-aware apps (text, photos, music, terminal, games), and a user-space networking stack with Wi‑Fi, TLS via mature Rust crates, an audio mixing service, crash-safe filesystem snapshots, and hardware drivers. The repo documents protocols, voice pipeline, consent, memory, testing and provides the full OS tree.
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