Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering

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This report presents Human-Directed Agentic Engineering (HDAE), a method for building complex software by combining human-defined architecture, constraints, milestones, acceptance criteria, and stopping points with an autonomous implementation, execution, diagnosis, and revision loop. Over eleven days, one persistent coding-agent task produced an independent Rust-first x86-64 kernel that boots through UEFI, implements its own core operating-system mechanisms and Linux compatibility layer, executes selected unmodified Alpine Linux programs, and boots a Rocky Linux 10 userspace with systemd through multi-user.target. Ginux demonstrates the rapid integration of established systems mechanisms, but it remains a research prototype.

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