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A report on Zenodo proposes the Human-Directed Agent Engineering (HDAE) method, in which humans define the architecture, constraints, milestones, and acceptance criteria, while agents are responsible for the implementation, execution, diagnosis, and modification loop. The report uses Ginux as an experimental case: within eleven days, a continuously running coding agent task produced a Rust-first x86-64 kernel that boots via UEFI, implements its own core operating system mechanisms and a Linux compatibility layer, can run some unmodified Alpine Linux programs, and boots a Rocky Linux 10 user space with systemd into multi-user.target. The report states that Ginux is still a research prototype, with narrow compatibility and hardware coverage, has not undergone an independent security audit, and does not claim to be production-ready or equivalent to Linux.
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The report uses Ginux as a case study to examine the HDAE method
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Ginux Report: Building an Independent Kernel That Runs a Linux User Space with Human-Led Agent Engineering
This report on Zenodo proposes the Human-Directed Agent Engineering (HDAE) method, in which humans define the architecture, constraints, milestones, and acceptance criteria, while agents handle the loop of implementation, execution, diagnosis, and modification. The experimental case Ginux, within eleven days, produced a Rust-first x86-64 kernel from a continuously running coding agent task; it boots via UEFI, implements its own core operating system mechanisms and a Linux compatibility layer, can run some unmodified Alpine Linux programs, and boots a Rocky Linux 10 user space with systemd into multi-user.target. The report states that Ginux remains a research prototype, with narrow compatibility and hardware coverage, has not undergone an independent security audit, and does not claim to be production-ready or equivalent to Linux.