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+# Cognition OS
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+Cognition OS is an operating-system-adjacent framework that treats probabilistic inference, context, attention, and memory as schedulable, governable resources. It provides deterministic control, isolation, capability-based security, and provenance for non-deterministic computation, while keeping all learning and inference in userland services.
+
+## What this is
+
+- A **spec + reference design** for a “cognitive kernel” (control plane) and userland++ services.
+- A place to define **contracts** (object model, syscalls/APIs, policy model, provenance) that can be implemented on top of classic OS kernels.
+
+## What this is not
+
+- **Not** “LLMs in kernel space.”
+- **Not** an AGI project.
+- **Not** a fork of FreeBSD/Linux (at least initially).
+
+## Core principles
+
+- Deterministic control plane; probabilistic workers.
+- Capability-based security; no ambient authority.
+- Explicit budgets (time, compute, context, risk).
+- Provenance as a first-class output.
+- Isolation domains for workers and tools.
+
+## Repository layout
+
+- `docs/` — narrative design docs (“why”).
+- `spec/` — contracts and invariants (“must not change casually”).
+- `freebsd/` — mapping to FreeBSD primitives (jails, Capsicum, kqueue, …).
+- `linux/` — mapping to Linux primitives (namespaces, seccomp, LSM, epoll, …).
+- `runtime/` — userland++ reference components (scheduler, tool broker, memory services).
+- `examples/` — end-to-end flows and scenarios.
+
+## Getting started
+
+Start reading:
+1. `docs/000-introduction.md`
+2. `docs/010-design-goals.md`
+3. `docs/030-architecture-overview.md`
+4. `spec/cognitive-syscalls.md`
+
+## Status
+
+This repository is **pre-implementation**. The initial goal is to stabilize a minimal v0.1 contract for:
+- cognitive object model
+- cognitive syscalls/APIs
+- provenance event model
+- OS mapping notes (FreeBSD first, Linux mapping in parallel)
+