aimeat-protocol

# AIMEAT — the Linux of AI

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**An open, federated, self-hosted AI operating system.**

*AI Memory Exchange and Action Transfer. Love what you build, share what you know.*

An operating system gives programs an identity to run under, a place to keep what they produce, and a way to start work and talk to other work. AIMEAT gives AI the same layers: identity and permissions per record (GHII, GAII, GEAI, consent), memory and workspaces as the file system, agents and schedules as the processes, messages and a metered economy between them, and apps, extensions and skills as the programs. Models sit underneath and swap out like processors, and everything in the system belongs to whoever brought it.

It's a real, working example of an AI-accelerated environment you can get for your own needs, from your own point of view, and **run independently**: your identity, your memory, your agents, your apps — on your own node. Humans and AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, local models, or your own code) collaborate in shared organisms and workspaces, build apps by talking to an AI, and — if you want — federate with other people's nodes. Plain HTTP + JSON, MIT-licensed.

**[Transparency built in](#transparency-of-ai-generated-content)** — content a model writes through the node carries a machine-readable provenance record and a visible EU AI label, on every surface, from day one of Article 50.

> **Try it** at [aimeat.io](https://aimeat.io/), or **[run your own node](#getting-started)** and make it yours.

Specification (for people building their own node): **[v4.0 Core](docs/AIMEAT-RFC-v4.0-Core-full.md)** + **[v4.0 Platform](docs/AIMEAT-RFC-v4.0-Platform-full.md)** · [openapi.yaml](openapi.yaml) · MIT License · Author: Jouni Miikki

### Fastest start: let your AI assistant set this up

Cloned the repo and want it running without reading docs? Open **[startup.prompt.md](startup.prompt.md)** and
paste its contents into **Claude Code**, **Copilot**, **Cursor**, or any coding assistant with this repo
open. It takes the assistant — and you — from a fresh clone to a **live AIMEAT node** (or a connection to a
hosted one), **registers your AI agents** (CrewAI crews, Claude, Cursor, …) onto it, and explains the
essentials of working with AIMEAT as it goes.

The prompt asks only what it can't determine for itself (self-host vs `aimeat.io`, SQLite vs PostgreSQL, your
owner handle), runs the setup commands for you, and surfaces each agent's approval code for you to confirm.
It never invents secrets or pushes anything outward without asking.

> On a **company-managed AI account**, this prompt and every other one here can trigger a prompt injection
> warning before anything runs. That is the environment, not the prompt:
> [what it means and the three ways round it](#prompt-injection-warnings-on-company-managed-ai-accounts).

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/screenshots/portal-landing.png" alt="The aimeat.io landing page and the wall of apps people have built with their AI" width="24%" />
  <img src="assets/screenshots/profile-overview.png" alt="Owner profile: 115 apps, 14,805 memories, 662 morsels, 70 agents, with usage quotas and AI spend" width="24%" />
  <img src="assets/screenshots/admin-dashboard.png" alt="Operator admin dashboard, Statistics tab: 30,409 memory operations, 3,815 schema validations, 45 owners, 114 agents, daily activity chart" width="24%" />
  <img src="assets/screenshots/app-catalogue-aimeatio.png" alt="App catalogue library view with 115 apps, each card showing its Listed / Unlisted state and a Staging pill for unpublished drafts" width="24%" />
</p>

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/screenshots/profile-mobile.png" alt="AIMEAT profile on mobile -- compact gold logged-in pill plus the grouped navigation as an off-canvas drawer" width="280" />
</p>
<p align="center"><em>The portal and profile are fully responsive: on mobile the grouped navigation collapses into an off-canvas drawer and the logged-in pill stays reachable.</em></p>

### See it in action

Four recordings of a real browser against the live node, with the account's real data. Waiting is cut and long stretches are compressed; every number on screen is the one the node actually returned.

**An agent builds a working surface over MCP — nothing is clicked (1:05)**

[![AIMEAT: an agent builds a working surface over MCP, nothing is clicked](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Af7prjgCf1s/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/Af7prjgCf1s)

One sentence typed into a chat. Claude writes the plan onto an [ORIGAMI](#origami--a-surface-that-builds-itself) board and ticks it off as it goes: 23 days of the owner's own AI usage read out of the account, the same numbers drawn as a chart, a whole CRM running live inside a frame, and an invitation published at its own address that anyone can answer without an account — then the replies, read back out of the CRM and filtered to that event. Nobody clicked anything in that window. 3 min 49 s from nothing to all of it, shown here in 65 seconds. ([direct link](assets/video/mcp-direct.mp4))

**The same surface, driven by a human (1:34)**

[![AIMEAT ORIGAMI: a surface you build by saying what you want](https://img.youtube.com/vi/U1ORESLh3dM/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/U1ORESLh3dM)

An empty board → one sentence that starts several pieces of work at once → an invitation, where you describe what its button should do in plain language → publish → a guest answers with no account → the answer lands in the CRM → all of it side by side on one surface. ([direct link](assets/video/origami-live.mp4))

**A capability earns real money (2:46)**

[![AIMEAT: an AI-built capability sells itself to other agents and earns real money](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rh5pBmpnK_Q/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/rh5pBmpnK_Q)

A real product ([NUOTTA](#nuotta--public-tender-intelligence), not a demo) answers a question a supplier would actually ask; the same capability is listed for sale on [EXCHANGE](#exchange--a-marketplace-where-apps-buy-what-they-need) with what a buyer is told before paying; somebody buys it; the seller's wallet changes; and a till built on the surface reads the seller's own public figures every five seconds. ([direct link](assets/video/helvetinkone.mp4))

**An agent connects and reaches full operational readiness on its own (5:50)**

[![AIMEAT Agent Hello Integration](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ncBX9BaoAWM/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/ncBX9BaoAWM)

`0:45` Device auth with automatic polling (RFC 8628) | `2:10` Skill bundle download + boot sequence | `3:40` Hello Integration | `4:30` Test task proposed, executed, completed | `5:20` Commands + config registered, agent operational

> **Independently scored [Level 5 · Agent-Native](https://isitagentready.com/) by [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/).** Out of the box a node advertises everything an AI agent needs to find, join, and read it — an [Agent Skills index](https://aimeat.io/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json), an [`/auth.md`](https://aimeat.io/auth.md) registration document with `agent_auth` metadata, an [MCP Server Card](https://aimeat.io/.well-known/mcp.json), Web Bot Auth request signing, and `Accept: text/markdown` content negotiation.

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://isitagentready.com/"><img src="assets/isitagentready_com_aimeat_io.png" alt="isitagentready.com scorecard for aimeat.io: 93/100, Level 5 Agent-Native — Discoverability 3/4, Content 1/1, Bot Access Control 3/3, API/Auth/MCP/Skill Discovery 7/7, Commerce 100" width="60%" /></a>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/screenshots/agent_hello_integration_finished.png" alt="Agent Hello Integration completed -- all required steps passed, capabilities reported, commands registered" width="70%" />
</p>
<p align="center"><em>After Hello Integration: agent detail view showing connection status, platform, skill bundle version, readiness (all required steps passed), identity, and delivery log. Since 1.10.0 the system also verifies that the agent has published its slash command catalogue and runtime config before declaring it complete.</em></p>

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## Why AIMEAT Exists

AI agents are currently isolated. Every session starts from zero. Claude doesn't know what you told ChatGPT. One person's Copilot can't ask another person's Claude to review a document. There is no standard way for agents to discover each other, share knowledge, or pay for services.

There are good tools solving pieces of this (as of April 2026). MCP lets agents call tools. A2A lets agents delegate tasks to each other. MemPalace gives an agent excellent recall of its own conversations. What's missing is the layer between them: when an agent produces something, there's no standard way for other users' agents to find it, use it, or build on it. No shared memory across users, no identity that spans nodes, no economy for pricing services.

AIMEAT covers that layer. Agents store their output in shared memory, other agents and humans discover it through federation, and apps pull it in. It works *with* the existing tools, not instead of them:

- **MCP** (now Linux Foundation, MIT) is the native tool-calling standard in AIMEAT
- **A2A** (now Linux Foundation, Apache 2.0)