lifeos

The AI-Powered Life Operating System

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LifeOS is a General Purpose AI Harness for doing anything you want to do in life and work with AI. It captures who you are, what you care about, and where you're trying to go, then uses AI that knows you to help you get there.

And because it has your full context, it makes everything you do more efficient and effective, from building apps, to starting a business, to creative projects…basically anything.

[!NOTE] The whole system works on one central concept: moving from your Current State to your Ideal State — in pursuit of Euphoric Surprise.

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Install

Give it to your AI. LifeOS is installed by an AI, so the install is just a prompt. Paste this into your AI coding harness — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, or any capable agent — and it does the whole setup for you:

Read https://ourlifeos.ai/install and install LifeOS for me.

Your AI reads the install page and walks the setup, asking permission before it touches anything.

Prefer the terminal? There's a one-line shortcut for Claude Code on macOS/Linux:

curl -fsSL https://ourlifeos.ai/install.sh | bash

Either path needs a capable AI coding harness — we build and run on Claude Code — and bun.

Core Components

The unique features — the parts you won't find anywhere else. Anything a good harness already provides on its own (built-in subagents, for example) isn't listed; this is only what LifeOS adds. See them live and click through on ourlifeos.ai.

🧩 Skills

LifeOS installs as one self-contained skill that bundles the whole library — research, security, writing, art, and more. Browse them all on the site.

Browse all skills →

❓ FAQ

How is LifeOS different from using an AI harness on its own?

Your harness gives you raw capability. LifeOS is the layer on top that makes it yours — a system that knows your goals, people, and context, and keeps working toward them:

• Persistent memory — Your DA remembers past sessions, decisions, and learnings
• Custom skills — Specialized capabilities for the things you do most
• Your context — Goals, contacts, preferences—all available without re-explaining
• Intelligent routing — Say "research this" and the right workflow triggers automatically
• Self-improvement — The system modifies itself based on what it learns

Your harness is the engine. LifeOS is everything else that makes it your car.

What harness does LifeOS run on?

Any high-end one. LifeOS is harness-agnostic by design — it's built on universal primitives (hooks, skills, context files, agentic routing), not one vendor's features. The code is TypeScript and Bash, and the core ideas — TELOS, the Algorithm, skills, memory — port to any capable agent.

Daniel builds and runs it on Claude Code, so that's the most-tested path today. But LifeOS isn't locked to it, and it's designed to run wherever your AI does.

How is this different from fabric?

Fabric is a collection of AI prompts (patterns) for specific tasks. It's focused on what to ask AI.

LifeOS is infrastructure for how your DA operates—memory, skills, routing, context, self-improvement. They're complementary. Many LifeOS users integrate Fabric patterns into their skills.

What if I break something?

Recovery is straightforward:

• Back up first — Before any upgrade: cp -r ~/.claude ~/.claude-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d)
• USER/ is safe — Your customizations in USER/ are never touched by the installer or upgrades
• Settings merge, not overwrite — The installer only updates identity and version fields; your hooks, statusline, and custom config are preserved
• Git-backed — Version control everything, roll back when needed
• History is preserved — Your DA's memory survives mistakes
• DA can fix it — Your DA helped build it, it can help repair it
• Re-install — Run the installer again; it detects existing installations and merges intelligently

🎯 Roadmap

🌐 Community

GitHub Discussions: Join the conversation

Community Discord: LifeOS is discussed in the community Discord along with other AI projects

Twitter/X: @danielmiessler

Blog: danielmiessler.com

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See our GitHub Issues for open tasks.

1. Fork the repository
2. Make your changes — Bug fixes, new skills, documentation improvements
3. Test thoroughly — Install in a fresh system to verify
4. Submit a PR with examples and testing evidence

📜 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🙏 Credits

Anthropic and the Claude Code team — First and foremost. You are moving AI further and faster than anyone right now. Claude Code is the foundation that makes all of this possible.

IndyDevDan — For great videos on meta-prompting and custom agents that have inspired parts of LifeOS.

Contributors

LifeOS is built in the open, and the community's pull requests, forensic bug reports, and fresh-install writeups directly shape every release. The public repo is generated from a private source tree, so community PRs are ported into source with credit rather than merged directly — same fix, durable across releases.