Bus Engine

Capabilities behind Bus Engine.

Bus Engine is being built around a Linux system-engineering lifecycle. Individual tools and modules support discovery, configuration, building, validation, diagnosis, and maintenance, and the status labels below show what is available today versus what remains development work. The accepted slice is the virtual-server Bus Engine OS profile and local Engine runtime path.

Engineering areas

These are the lifecycle areas Bus Engine is built around. The implementation map below shows what is available today and what remains in development.

Target discovery and Linux inventory

Collect declared requirements, system profiles, runtime observations, logs, and target constraints.

Workload and source analysis

Connect application source, build systems, runtime dependencies, and acceptance tests to the operating system underneath them.

System blueprint creation

Create a versioned blueprint covering kernel, packages, services, boot, filesystem, network, security, outputs, and tests.

Kernel configuration

Determine required features, modules, drivers, virtualization support, filesystem support, and boot diagnostics.

Package and dependency engineering

Maintain source inputs, patches, package definitions, dependency metadata, package archives, and notices.

Boot, storage, filesystem, service, and network configuration

Assemble the system shape that makes a generated image bootable, inspectable, and maintainable.

Kernel, package, and image builds

Run controlled build tools, calculate checksums, and produce artifacts from the resolved blueprint.

Virtualized boot and workload testing

Boot generated systems in isolated environments and run platform and workload tests before promoting changes.

Diagnosis, repair, and rolling maintenance

Analyze failed builds, boot failures, kernel problems, service failures, and regressions, then update the blueprint.

AI provider and isolated execution integration

Connect the Bus Engine orchestration layer to an agent runtime, a configured hosted or local model backend, and controlled build environments.

Implementation map

Module	Status	Role
`bus-engine`	Available	CLI/client for Engine runtime status, start, stop, and SSH session commands.
`bus-api-provider-engine`	Available	Authenticated REST boundary for Engine actions; delegates work through Bus Events.
`bus-integration-engine`	Available	Events worker coordinating Engine profile, artifact, VM, and SSH-session requests.
`bus-artifacts`	Available	Generic artifact catalog/client behavior for binary records, digests, imports, and updates.
`bus-api-provider-artifacts`	Available	Authenticated artifact API for list, inspect, fetch, verify, import, update, and mirror operations.
`bus-integration-artifacts`	Available	Events worker for atomic download, verification, import, update, mirror, and cache behavior.
`bus-integration-vm`	Available	Provider-neutral VM lifecycle worker routing VM requests to provider integrations.
`bus-integration-qemu`	Available	Local QEMU VM provider for Engine runtime evaluation and development targets.
`bus-engine-os`	Available for `virtual-server`; desktop and WASM targets in development	Source-built Bus Engine OS package, kernel, rootfs, image, and boot-test pipeline. The accepted profile is the minimal QEMU/KVM server image; the `virtual-desktop` profile and browser-hosted WASM version remain additive development work.
`bus-api-provider-llm`	Available	OpenAI-compatible Bus model API with Bus auth, usage, and runtime wake-up hooks.
`bus-integration-codex`	Available	Codex App Server backed Bus Events worker for provider-neutral agent execution requests.
`bus-integration-ollama`	Available	Local model provider integration for configured Ollama-backed inference paths.

Operator environment

Current documented Bus Engine OS builds support macOS arm64 and Linux 64-bit operator hosts. The image command detects the host architecture and CPU count, uses Docker for the Linux build environment on macOS, and uses the local Linux host when preflight passes. The package and profile commands expose architecture filters such as x86_64 and target selection for intentional cross-architecture work.

Documentation links

Start with the product overview and the Bus Engine documentation. Use the module references below when you need command behavior, API boundaries, or integration-worker details for a specific implemented module.