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AI-POS

What is AI-POS?

AI-POS (AI Project Operating System) is a desktop app that organises any long-running project (writing software, doing research, running a side business, planning your life) into a standard structure that an AI can take over directly:

  • Project (workspace): a folder you choose. All state lives inside it as human-readable files. There is no black-box database: you can inspect everything with your file manager or with git, any time.
  • Tasks: atomic units of work, each small enough to finish within a single working session, with a status (todo → in progress → done, or blocked).
  • Phases and gates (workflow): the project moves through phases defined by a template (for example plan → execute → review). Each phase has exit gates, and the engine decides whether they pass by checking real state (for example “all tasks are done”). You don’t get to mark your own homework.
  • Handoff snapshot: a summary of “where things stand and what comes next”, maintained automatically by the engine. Switch to a new AI session, a different machine, or a different person: reading this one file is enough to pick up the thread.

In one sentence: you make the decisions, the AI does the work, and AI-POS makes sure a handoff is always possible.

Why this exists

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An AI coding session is short and forgetful; a real project is long and full of context. Most of the friction in working with AI agents comes from that mismatch: every new session starts by re-deriving what the last one already knew, and the parts that never got written down get lost.

AI-POS puts that context in files the engine keeps fresh, so the next session starts from state rather than from scratch.

What it is not

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  • Not an AI agent. AI-POS doesn’t write your code or your report. It is the management hub; the execution is done by whichever agent you prefer (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or you).
  • Not a cloud service. Your project state is local files on your machine, and AI-POS itself has no backend to send them to. It does not, however, make any claim about the agent CLIs you run inside it; those talk to their own vendors, with their own credentials, exactly as they would in an external terminal.
  • Not a task tracker you have to feed by hand. The handoff snapshot regenerates on every state change, so it is never staler than your last action.

Where to go next

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