The base for your agentic computers.
Your agent gets a computer of its own: its own system, its own disk, its own browser. Complete freedom to work, explore and create.
One idea, many jobs.
The same machine, doing whatever you need it to do. Different work, different people, different ages. Build the one you need in Agent Base.
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Lorem ipsum →What an agentic computer is.
A useful agent installs software, changes files and runs any command — and it should have somewhere of its own to do that. An agentic computer is exactly that: a whole machine that belongs to one agent, with its own system, its own disk and its own browser, running right on your computer.
Its own Debian system with its own kernel, its own throwaway disk, its own Chromium — and no shared filesystem between that machine and yours. Agents always run inside one: there is no host mode anywhere in the code, so it is not a setting you could forget to turn on.
Ready to go from the first boot.
Every machine ships with the terminal agents already installed and configured. You pick one when you create the machine, and it’s ready to work.
Signs in through the browser we are already streaming to you, so your existing subscription is what it uses. AB01 strips the API-key variables out of its environment on purpose, so the subscription login is the one that takes.
Watch it work.
You see what your agent sees, and the full log of everything it did to get there. Your computer’s logs and the agent’s land in the same place.
Including the machine’s own boot console, so one that fails to come up tells you why.
Collaboration built in.
Work on the same machine as your team. Everyone sees the same screen and follows the same conversation, so nobody has to be told what happened.
Whoever joins late gets the last frame, the whole conversation and the terminal scrollback replayed, so they arrive knowing what happened. Today this is your own install: everyone signed in reaches every machine on it, and a machine has no owner yet.
The agents you already use work here.
NIX is the Agent Base OS’s built-in operator, always on: you talk to it normally and it drives the computer for you. It works with OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini — and with LM Studio or Ollama if you’d rather run the model on your own machine.
You use your own API key, and it stays yours: it never goes into the machine’s record and never appears on a command line. The two on the right need no key at all — the model runs on your own hardware.
Store of agents.
A new kind of store: a place to buy, sell and share whole computers, agents and all. Build one that’s good at something, then pass it on — whoever gets it can start working right away.
Questions.
Including the ones we wish we had better answers to.
Can the agent really not see my files?
Not your files, no. The command line that starts each machine contains no 9p mount, no virtiofs and no shared folder of any kind, so there is nothing for the agent to read even as root. What it does have is an ordinary internet connection, which means it can reach the same network you are on — including services running on your own machine. Isolation here is of your disk and your account, and we would rather say that plainly than let you assume more.
Where does my API key end up?
It never goes into the machine’s record and never appears on a command line. Your computer hands it to the machine through the machine’s own firmware, and the machine writes it once on first boot into a private file only the agent’s user can open. That file lives on that machine’s disk until you delete the machine — so the key is out of your shell history and out of your process list, but it is not gone. If that is not acceptable, run Claude Code instead: it signs in with your subscription through the browser we are already streaming to you, and no key exists to store.
Which agents can I use?
NIX is the built-in operator and is always on. Alongside it you can run Claude Code, OpenCode, Hermes or Open Claw in a real terminal, chosen per machine when you create it. All of them are installed into the base image when you build it, so a machine starts with the one you picked already running.
How many can I run at once?
Three gigabytes each by default, so roughly three or four on a sixteen-gigabyte Mac. AB01 works the ceiling out from your real memory and core count and will not let you set a default above it. A hard cap on how many run at once is there if you want it, but it is off until you set it — so nothing stops you from starting one machine too many.
What will my Mac feel like while they’re running?
Busy. Each machine is a full computer with a browser inside it, so three of them will spin your fans, warm the chassis and cost you real battery — this is not a background process you will forget about on a laptop running on its own power. Plugged in, a recent Apple Silicon Mac carries three or four without becoming unpleasant to work on. If you want them running all day, run them on a Mac that is not the one you are typing on.
What do I need to run it?
A Mac with Apple Silicon, and QEMU. AB01 uses Apple’s hypervisor directly, so Intel Macs, Windows and Linux hosts are not supported today. You build the base image once — ten to twenty minutes, mostly spent downloading a Debian cloud image and installing the agents into it — and every machine after that is an overlay on top of it.
What happens when I delete an agent?
Its disk is removed and it is gone. There are no snapshots yet, so there is nothing to roll back to and nothing left behind — deliberately, for now, but it does mean a machine you spent an hour setting up cannot be saved. Snapshots are the first thing on the roadmap for exactly this reason.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta, and it runs entirely on hardware you already own — there is no meter and nothing to rent. You pay whatever your model provider charges, directly to them, or nothing at all if you point it at a local model. We will tell you before any of that changes.
Is it ready for my team?
For a team around one Mac, yes — several people can watch and drive the same machine at once. For a company, not yet: AB01 binds to your own machine, everyone signed in sees every agent on it, and a machine has no owner to enforce anything finer. That is why this is early access rather than a sign-up button.
Build your first agentic computer.
AB01 is in private beta, for macOS on Apple Silicon. Tell us what you want to build — if AB01 fits, we’ll get you in. Write to hello@nix.cm.