An AI-native Linux distribution.
Local models as a system service · per-app context · MCP-native agents · an append-only Ledger.

macOS gives you Apple's intelligence. Lisa gives you yours.

Lisa makes intelligence a system service, not a feature bolted onto apps. One daemon owns the GPU/RAM budget and serves every app; every app gets durable, inspectable memory and scoped context; every app exposes its actions over MCP; cloud models are reachable only through a single ledgered egress broker; and an append-only Ledger records every prompt, grant, and tool call — readable by you, enforced by design, with network egress technically blocked for the daemons that hold your data.

It is a bootable, self-updating, immutable OS with a GNOME desktop and AI shell surfaces — running today on a real 2017 iMac, with A/B slots and automatic rollback.

• 🧠 Local-first inference — llama.cpp as a system service, guided generation (grammar-constrained output), a QoS scheduler.
• 🤝 Assistant harness — Siri-style intents (natural language → a trust-checked tool call) and a Claude-Code-style coding agent.
• 🔌 Bring your own cloud — 14 built-in providers behind the egress broker, with per-scope offload consent (default deny).
• 📖 Legible by design — the Ledger; a portal trust boundary; the no-egress data daemons.

_{The name honours the 1983 Apple Lisa — the GUI pioneer that came before the Mac. This time the desktop gets the intelligence era first. GPL-2.0.}