Qira is a native agent whose language model never holds authority. Every action passes deterministic authority checks and is verified against real state. Consequential changes are previewed before execution, while low-risk reversible actions can happen immediately. Everything — including refusals — lands in a hash-chained ledger.
Downloads require an active access grant. Codes are personal, revocable, and checked server-side.
The native agent, running today on Apple Silicon and Intel. Current
distribution is a source build (ad-hoc signed, not yet notarized): access
to the repository is granted on request, and ./install.sh builds and
installs it. A signed, notarized installer is in progress.
The same engine, ported to Linux mechanisms (.desktop application handling, PulseAudio, NetworkManager, Wayland/X11 clipboard). Distribution is a source build in a container; where a backing service is absent, Qira says so rather than pretending.
A bootable x86-64 Linux distribution where Qira is the entire session. Boot it in a VM or from USB; it runs from memory, touches nothing on your machine, and self-tests on every boot. BIOS image; Secure Boot unsupported. It is a demonstration OS, not a way to install the native Qira agent on a Mac.
The ledger is tamper-evident against ordinary same-user edits; it is not cryptographic anti-rollback, and the image is unsigned (BIOS boot, Secure Boot unsupported).
This link is authorized for a few minutes and then expires.
It is a bootable operating system image, not an application. Do not double-click it — macOS will mount it as a disk showing boot files that do nothing, and that mount then blocks it from starting. Pick your situation:
On a Mac — run it as a virtual machine. One command, nothing installed, nothing on your Mac touched:
First, once, if you do not already have QEMU:
brew install qemu
Then paste this whole block. It picks the newest image in your Downloads (so it is right even if you have downloaded more than one), releases the disk macOS may have mounted from it, and starts it:
ISO=$(ls -t "$HOME"/Downloads/qiraos*.iso | head -1) hdiutil detach /Volumes/QIRAOS_2_0 2>/dev/null qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 1024 -boot d \ -netdev user,id=n0 -device e1000,netdev=n0 \ -drive "file=$ISO,media=cdrom,readonly=on"
To check the download against the hash above:
shasum -a 256 "$ISO"
Those commands carry no # comments and use
$HOME rather than ~ on purpose: an interactive
zsh prompt does not treat # as a comment, and it does not
expand ~ inside file=…. Both quietly break a
pasted command.
A window opens and QiraOS boots to its prompt, where you type what you want in plain language. On Apple Silicon this image is emulated, so it takes 30-60 seconds to boot and feels slow — that is the emulation, not the system. Close the window to stop.
On a Windows or Linux PC —
write it to a USB stick and boot from it (BIOS/legacy boot; Secure Boot
is not supported yet). Balena Etcher or Rufus will do it, or on Linux:
sudo dd if=qiraos-*.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress —
identify /dev/sdX carefully, dd will overwrite
whatever you name.
Just want Qira on your Mac? You do not need this image at all — it is a demonstration OS. Ask for macOS source access above instead.
The same engine, cross-compiled to Android and packaged as an app: a WebView onto the agent's shell, with app and URL opening bridged to Android Intents. Verified running on Android 14 — the package installs, the engine runs as a live process, and the shell renders. Where the sandbox forbids an action it says so: battery has to come from the host app because SELinux denies the filesystem route, and an unreadable Wi-Fi state reports "unknown" rather than pretending the radio is off. Not yet tested on a physical handset, and not yet on the Play Store.
The engine compiles for Windows behind fixed-argv executors, but the scaffold is unrun and most system actions are not yet wired. It is not a usable build. Request access to be told when it becomes one — we will not ship a placeholder.
Prefer email? bryanleonard@imagineqira.com
A from-scratch research operating system — its own kernel and userland — frozen as a certified architecture proof (45 gates, 415 invariants, 0 failures). It is not distributed here.
A Linux-based distribution carrying the production Qira authority engine, built to run useful software and reach real hardware. The old custom kernel did not "become" Linux; 2.0 is a deliberate second track.