Startup
A first-run questionnaire personalizes the template into your own AI operating system.
The Lightweight AI Operating System
Your AI Command Center
CenterOS gives your AI a persistent home for workflows, wikis, memory, templates, and rules. Clone it, personalize it, and turn AI into a system that helps automate your business, life, and everything else.
First-run prompt
Get CenterOS
Read STARTUP.md and follow its instructions.
Automating business
Building workflows
Capturing memory
Personal knowledge
AI made easy
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From random chats to a real operating system.
Most AI work disappears when the conversation ends. CenterOS fixes that by giving your AI a structured repo where it can load context, remember durable preferences, run repeatable workflows, and keep a clear record of what changed.
It is not a heavy platform. It is a simple framework made from plain files and folders, designed to be cloned, inspected, adapted, and owned by you.
CenterOS Template
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Start with Markdown. Add automation when it earns its keep.
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What makes CenterOS work.
The core pieces are intentionally small. Each one gives your AI a clearer job and gives you a system you can understand.
Bootstrap
Every normal session starts by loading the same operating context, so your AI stops beginning from scratch.
Workflows
Repeatable procedures live in their own folders with documented inputs, outputs, steps, and dependencies.
Wikis
Knowledge bases turn raw source material into linked pages your AI can use and maintain with you.
Memory
Durable preferences, decisions, feedback, and project context stay inside the repo instead of a hidden cache.
Templates
Reusable scaffolds keep new workflows and wikis consistent without adding unnecessary machinery.
Logs
Append-only records make meaningful changes visible to future sessions and humans.
90-10 Protocol
Code handles deterministic work. AI handles judgment, writing, summarization, and ambiguity.
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One prompt starts the install.
Clone the repo, open it in your AI coding harness, and tell the AI to run startup. It will ask the setup questions, replace the placeholders, populate the identity files, and prepare the system for normal sessions.
Read STARTUP.md and follow its instructions.04
Build your own CenterOS.
CenterOS is open source. Star it, fork it, customize it, and use it as the center for your own AI workflows.