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Open source · built in public by Ariel Diaz
Agents changed computing.
Now it works for you.
HumanwareOS is an opinionated system for running your life and work with AI agents—through Slack, on infrastructure you control, with memory that compounds.
I’ve got the narrative, build, repo, and deploy. I’ll bring back the result.
The inversion
We used to work for technology.
Agents make technology work for us.
That should feel freeing. Instead, most agent tools add tabs, dashboards, prompts, and cognitive load. HumanwareOS starts from the human: one familiar command surface, visible parallel work, and a system that remembers why—not just what.
Why Slack
The operating room was already built.
Slack already knows how to run a team. HumanwareOS turns that proven coordination layer into a command surface for your agents.
Parallel without chaos
One thread per mission. Work happens concurrently without shredding your attention.
Status at a glance
Emoji show who owns the work, whether it is moving, and which model and harness are running it.
Context has a place
Channels hold domains. Threads hold sessions. Notifications return you only when your judgment or hands are needed.
Everything comes back
Code, documents, diagrams, videos, and live artifacts return to the conversation with their provenance intact.
A human-first system
Two agents. One human. Every model.
My system splits life and work so each gets a durable partner without splitting me in two. Your system should be just as personal.
Personal
Protect the life.
Liv carries personal context, household operations, health, cadence, and the commitments that make work worth doing.
whole system
Work
Move the work.
Max carries strategy, products, content, priorities, and the discipline to make tradeoffs instead of accumulating projects.
What it does today
Agents work in GitHub through Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi, or whatever comes next.
Sessions, security, model use, cost, and status stay visible instead of disappearing into black boxes.
Turn the result into a web artifact, share a file, post a Loom, or archive it for later.
Plain Markdown memory travels across agents, models, and vendors. The valuable context remains yours.
The stack
Local where it matters.
Portable everywhere.
A Mac mini runs the system. Slack reaches it securely through Tailscale. OpenClaw routes each thread to the right agent, harness, and model. GitHub holds the code and memory. Doppler holds the keys.
The opinionated parts
01Human first. Optimize the system for your attention, not the agent’s convenience.
02Avoid lock-in. Agents, models, harnesses, and interfaces must remain replaceable.
03Privacy is architectural. Run local models when the data, cost, or benchmark demands it.
04Context compounds. The system gets better because it writes lessons back into durable memory.
05Built in public. The system builds, observes, and explains itself as part of the work.
Version 1
Build the system that lets you stay human.
HumanwareOS is open source, early, and real. I built it for myself because the future arrived without an operating manual. Now you can fork it and make it yours.
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