My dad was diagnosed with cancer. While he was in hospital, the council emptied his house. Everything I owned was in that house. £20,000+ of equipment, years of research, a server with thousands of hours of work. Locks of my kids’ hair. Photos. All thrown in a tip.

My family turned my dying dad against me. I ended up living with someone suffering from paranoid psychosis. That’s where I built most of what I’m about to describe. Three days ago, 24 hours of abuse, and now I’m in a tent with my dog. 5°C weather. No money.

The council refused housing. The government won’t recognise my autism. They want me job hunting 35 hours a week from a tent.

I’m not incapable. I’ve raised a family. I’ve worked my whole adult life. Supervising teams, tattooing, freelance programming, building proprietary backend systems across 20 years of working with Linux. My autism isn’t a disability here. It’s the reason I can hold an entire OS architecture in my head and see how every component connects. When I point this brain at a problem, it produces systems that work, at a speed that doesn’t make sense to most people.

Over the past 4 months, I’ve been building OctantOS. An operating system for autonomous AI agents. Not a framework. Not a container wrapper. An actual OS with its own kernel (OctantCore, from-scratch Rust), its own hypervisor (OctantVMM), a single-binary Rust userspace, and a 10-layer security stack enforcing agent permissions at the kernel level.

~1.3M total lines of code. ~800K Rust. 50 crates, ~25 satellite projects. 3,900+ tests. Solo developer. No CS degree. 4 months.

The thesis: application-layer trust is insufficient for autonomous agents. OctantCore makes agent identity, capability boundaries, TTL enforcement, and audit first-class kernel primitives. Manifests compile to kernel enforcement policies. The agent doesn’t decide what it can do. The kernel does.

Rust LSM patches reviewed on lore.kernel.org by Google’s Rust-for-Linux team and the LSM maintainer. OctantCore boots on OctantVMM with memory manager, interrupts, syscall interface, Agent Descriptor Table, and capability enforcer initializing at boot. Built by orchestrating 10-12 parallel AI coding sessions simultaneously.

It goes beyond isolation. Agents identify gaps in their own knowledge and seek out what they don’t know (curiosity subsystem, implemented). Background inference consolidates learned patterns (dreaming). A 7-stage self-evolution pipeline within constitutional safety boundaries. New skills propagate across every OctantOS instance globally via the mesh layer. All kernel-constrained.

Nothing like this has existed before. That’s what dies if I can’t keep going.

I need stability. A place to live and enough to cover basics for 3 months to get OctantOS investment-ready. An angel willing to back me for that runway. A company that says “come work here, we have a place.” I’ll relocate anywhere, tomorrow, with my dog. Or just advice from someone who’s been here.

I just need someone to take a bet on what this brain can do when it’s not freezing in a tent.

https://github.com/MatrixForgeLabs/OctantOS https://octant-os.com https://gofund.me/f554a86ee