Open sourceand yours to keep
The AI OS Starter Kit is a folder of plain text files under the MIT license. You can read every line, change any file, and use it in your business.
Open source means you get the real thing. It is the workspace Navid runs his business on, with his own specifics taken out and a setup interview put in.
It is also plain markdown. There is no app to install and no server behind it, and nothing in it collects your data or phones home.
- What is in the folder
- What the MIT license lets you do
- Which agents it runs in
- Where your data lives
- How to help
Start with what the folder does from your first session.
What is in it
6 things it does from the first session, all in files you can open and edit.
It knows you
/onboard interviews you and reads your real writing, then writes who you are, what you sell and how you sound into files every session reads.
It writes like you
Your voice profile and your list of words you never use are read before anything is written. The brand-guardian agent refuses drafts that miss.
It remembers
What you decide and what you correct lands in files that load next time. A correction you give once does not come back.
It does the work
12 slash commands for the jobs a creator does every week, from a morning brief to meeting notes, research and decks.
It reaches your tools
Connect your mail, calendar, notes and publishing tools, and it reads real data instead of asking you to paste it in.
It runs in any agent
It is plain markdown, so Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI read the same folder Claude Code does.
What the MIT license lets you do
The license in plain English. It covers every file in the folder.
| You want to | Under MIT |
|---|---|
| Use it for your own business | Yes, free |
| Change any file | Yes |
| Share it, changed or not | Yes |
| Set it up for clients | Yes |
| Keep the copyright notice | Required in every copy |
| Get a warranty | No, it comes as is |
The license covers the AI OS Starter Kit only. AI OS Pro is a separate product with its own license and all rights reserved, and the pages on this site are not covered by it either.
It runs in any agent that reads a folder
Codex reads AGENTS.md, Cursor reads AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, and here AGENTS.md points to CLAUDE.md. Pick your agent to see how to install it.
The slash commands follow the Agent Skills standard. The plugin route and the brand-guardian agent are Claude Code features.
Your data stays in your folder
Everything /onboard writes stays on your computer. 3 things are worth knowing.
- No credentials come with it, and none are written into it
- Keys for connected tools go in
.claude/settings.local.json, which git ignores - Keep the folder private, or off git entirely, because
context/holds your business
How to help
Issues are welcome. Pull requests are mostly declined, and the reason is below.
Report a problem
Say the skill you ran, what you asked, what you expected and what came back. If /onboard wrote a file that reads wrong, paste the section.
Request a feature
The skill list is small on purpose, because every skill description costs the model attention. Most ideas belong in your own OS, where /ai-os-grow adds them.
Report a security issue
Never in a public issue. Report it privately with what you did, what happened and what you expected.
This repo is the reference for a family of repos kept deliberately identical, so a change has to land the same way in several of them. Reviewing that takes longer than writing it, so an issue gets something fixed faster than a pull request.
The one exception is a 1 line fix to a manifest or a workflow that does not run on your machine. Send those.
FAQs about the open-source AI OS Starter Kit
The questions people ask before they set it up.
Yes. It is MIT licensed and you get all of it. There is no credit card, no trial period and no upsell to unlock the rest.
Yes. The MIT license lets you use, change and share it, including commercially. Keep the copyright notice in every copy.
The folder works in any agent that reads a folder. Codex reads `AGENTS.md` in the project root, Cursor reads `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md`, and here `AGENTS.md` points to `CLAUDE.md`. The slash commands follow the Agent Skills standard. The plugin route and the `brand-guardian` agent are Claude Code features.
Nowhere. The folder is on your computer, and everything `/onboard` writes stays in it. Keys for connected tools go in `.claude/settings.local.json`, which git ignores. Nothing here has a backend, collects nothing, and phones nowhere.
No. AI OS Pro is a separate product with its own license, and all rights are reserved. The MIT license covers the AI OS Starter Kit only.