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Lisbon Tech Fringe · Dinis Cruz with Angelo · 11 Nov 2026

A distributed operating system

"We decouple even more than we have now on who's actually doing the task."

Identity

An identity is a key pair: from the moment something holds a private key, it can identify itself, which is what an identity is (Dinis, 15:0x UTC). Identity of what is the altitude: a swarm, an agent, a loop, an LLM call, or a piece of compute.

A private key that exists only where and while the holon runs proves it existed there, then (Dinis: 'that tells you that that agent exists at that moment in time').

processes

agents (S2 loops) and model calls (S0)

kernel and scheduler

the control plane: sessions, schedules, wakes, spawn (E4, E5)

file systems

git and vaults (zips to move them)

inter-process communication

signed inboxes and append lanes; task packets

users and permissions

PKI keys and the ABPs (abp/policies.json)

drivers

the model providers and endpoints

package manager

install: npm, pip, apt where allowed

system log

the ABP hook log, the router's ledger, agent-log runs

Policy

Every process runs under a grant: abp/policies.json, one per agent, deny by default.

Observe mode: logged, never blocked; enforcement rule by rule, at Dinis's word; a conductor can always override.

State travels as vaults (even zips) and signed task packets.

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