aos

Status: Preview Version: 1.10.28.
Module: 1PdCJiXhNafpJbvC-sjxWTeNzbf9Q_RfUNs84GYoPm0

Requirements

• NodeJS version 20+

Getting Started

npm i -g https://get_ao.g8way.io && aos

NOTE: after the first time you run aos it installs it to your local machine, so the next time you want to run aos, just type aos + [enter]

User Documentation

Go to ao Cookbook

Project Background and Current Status

This project is a proof of concept implementation of the aos module and aos console, the module is located in the process directory of this repository. The console is located in the src directory of this repository.

Design Principals

• aos the module is designed to be an operating system on the ao network, it provides developers the ability to build ao processes that are fast to iterate with and highly flexible. The design goal of the aos process is to not have too many opinions and implement the core functionality extremely well. The design should quickly reach a complete status. Currently it is in the Preview stage and should be progressing to an Early stage, then finally a Complete stage.

• aos console is an interactive shell to the aos module, the purpose of this shell is to provide developers with a fun and engaging experience with the aos operating system module, as well as users. Users should enjoy to run their personal processes and engage on the network, from trading, to chats, to games. So the console should be easy to install on all major os platforms.

Preview Implementation

The current implementation of aos is using the ao wasm module and building with the ao cli that uses a emscripten c compiler and embeds Lua v5.3 in the wasm binary. This gives the developers and users with a built in operating system with a first class interactive language to engage with the Process business logic. The aos module also provides features like json, base64,

For Developers

The aos console is a command-line application that provides a easy to use DX experience to create Processes (aka Smart Contracts) on the ao Computer.

Command-line options

You can provide a name for a specific Process, if the Process does not exist aos will spawn the process, then every time you run aos [name] it will locate that process and interact with it.

aos [name]

Flags

Name	Description	Required
--cron [Interval]	The cron flag can only be used when spawning a process, it instructs the Process to generate messages every Interval. An Interval can be defined with a [n]-(period) for example: 1-minute, 10-minutes, 5-hours, 10-blocks, etc.	0-1
--get-blueprints [dir]	This command will grab blueprints from the /blueprints folder or a folder specified by the user. These blueprints are small lua files that can be applied to your process to automatically give it some functionality.	0-1
--tag-name [name] and --tag-value [value]	These flags are also only when aos is spawning a Process. You may add many of these combinations as you would like and they will appear on the Process tags object	0-n
--load [luaFile]	The load command allows you to load lua source files from your local directory.	0-n

Commands

When running the console, you can type dot commands to instruct the console to perform special instructions.

Command	Description
.editor	This command opens a simple cli editor that you can type on multiple lines, and then you can type .done or .cancel to exist editor mode.
.load	This command allows you to load a lua source file from your local directory
.load-blueprint [name]	This command will grab a lua file from the blueprints directory and load it into your process.
.exit	This command will exit you console, but you can also do Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D

License

The ao and aos codebases are offered under the BSL 1.1 license for the duration of the testnet period. After the testnet phase is over, the code will be made available under either a new evolutionary forking license, or a traditional OSS license (GPLv3/v2, MIT, etc).