Vanta

Can AI break the barrier of making another universally compatible and usable OS?

Vanta is an experimental operating-systems project pursuing that question. It is not yet a universally compatible, production-ready operating system.

Tracks

• zig/ is the capability-oriented Zig kernel track.
• rust/ is the active Rust-native rewrite.

The tracks are separate experiments with different implementations and maturity. Neither is a general-purpose replacement for Linux or another established operating system.

Build and verification

Zig capability kernel

The Zig source is preserved as a separate experimental track. It is not part of the current release-verification matrix; see the Zig README for its scope and prerequisites. Do not treat it as a supported or release-verified boot path.

Rust-native rewrite

From rust/, use the nightly pinned in kernel/rust-toolchain.toml:

.\test-qemu.ps1

For an interactive boot instead of the checked QEMU regression:

.\run.ps1

The Rust QEMU checks need QEMU with edk2 UEFI firmware. Its separate Linux reference helper is run from rust/ as ..\scripts\fetch-linux.ps1.

Current limitations

• Development and verification currently target QEMU; Vanta makes no hardware-compatibility promise.
• It is not Linux-compatible or Linux-equivalent, and does not promise a stable application, driver, filesystem, or binary interface.
• The implemented subsystems are incomplete and may change substantially.
• Do not use either track for production workloads or depend on it for data safety, security isolation, or device support.

Contributing and security

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution expectations and .github/SECURITY.md for private vulnerability reporting.

License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.