KADAI
A desktop that is yours - and follows you.
A desktop that emerges from a description - not installed but instantiated: from a personal kernel, a small, encrypted, versioned self-description that can be instantiated and continued anywhere.
compile(me.md, environment) → desktop - and what the system learns flows back into the kernel.Get started
FoundCreate your own system - a short dialogue in the browser; at the end, your encrypted kernel sits in your own repository.
JoinAlready have a system? On a running Ubuntu: download one package, and the assistant leads you with your passphrase into your desktop. For empty machines: the seed image.
Understand
The conceptCore idea, layers, identity, shell tiers - and which parts already run.
Under the hoodFor technical readers: key architecture, the four protocols, git as the control plane, threat model.
The boot chainWhat is pulled and started, when and where - first boot, every boot, operation, shutdown.
KADAI is a project by Jan Mühlig · muehlig@relevantive.de · The seed images are hosted on Nextcloud (access on request). Everything described here is work in progress, last updated October 2026.