Research Deep-Dive Index
The pages under docs/research/ are deep-dive reports informing capOS design
decisions. Proposals and design notes cite them as grounding for capability
model, IPC, scheduling, networking, error handling, runtime, agent, and
prior-art choices. The top-level Research: Capability-Based and Microkernel
Operating Systems page records the design consequences pulled
from this survey; the entries below give the full alphabetical listing of
individual reports for direct discovery.
- Research: Browser Engines, Document Engines, and Agent Browsers – Browser engine portability, cap-native document-engine options, and agent-browser patterns for capOS browser capabilities.
- Cap’n Proto Error Handling: Research Notes – Prior-art on capnp-rpc error semantics.
- Research: Cloudflare, Cap’n Proto, Workers RPC, and Cap’n Web – Cloudflare Workers, workerd, Durable Objects, Workers RPC, Cap’n Web, and Cloudflare’s production use of Cap’n Proto/KJ.
- Completion Rings And Threaded Runtimes – Io_uring-style transports under threaded runtimes.
- Research: EROS, CapROS, and Coyotos – Persistent capability-system lineage.
- Research: Future Scheduler Architecture – Survey of modern scheduler algorithms and architectures for capOS scheduler evolution.
- Research: Game Mechanics Prior Art – Grounded mechanics research for Aurelian Frontier seasonal play, markets, construction, and tactical combat.
- Genode OS Framework: Research Report for capOS – Componentized OS framework.
- Research: Hosted Agent Harnesses – OpenClaw-like harnesses, swarms, memory/wiki systems, and agent orchestration research for capOS-hosted agents.
- Research: HPC Parallel Patterns – HPC benchmark and programming-model grounding for generic parallel processing patterns.
- IOMMU Remapping Grounding – Primary-source grounding for future Intel VT-d, AMD-Vi, and QEMU IOMMU remapping work.
- IX-on-capOS Hosting Research – IX as a package corpus, content-addressed build/store model, and a capability-native build-service surface for capOS.
- Research: Linux Sandboxes And Virtualization For Workloads – Linux sandbox, container, gVisor, KVM, microVM, and CPU-isolation prior art for generic Linux workload execution.
- LLVM Target Customization for capOS – Requirements for a custom LLVM target triple.
- Research: Multimedia Pipeline Latency – Survey of PipeWire and JACK design lessons for the capOS multimedia graph.
- Research: NO_HZ, SQPOLL, and Realtime Scheduling – Linux NO_HZ, io_uring SQPOLL, CPU isolation, PREEMPT_RT, SCHED_DEADLINE, and seL4 MCS grounding for capOS timer and realtime design.
- OS Error Handling in Capability Systems: Research Notes – Cross-OS error-model comparison.
- Research: Out-of-Kernel Scheduling – Userspace scheduling prior art.
- Research: Paperclips Clean-Room Functional Spec – Clean-room functional mechanics summary and capOS Paperclips improvement candidates.
- Pingora Architecture and Philosophy: Research Report for capOS – Proxy/server framework as a userspace runtime case study.
- Research: Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno OS – Namespace-oriented systems.
- Research: Realtime Multimodal Agent APIs – Provider API survey for realtime native-audio, multimodal, tool-using agents and their consequences for capOS agent surfaces.
- Research: Robotics Realtime Control – Robotics realtime-control practice and the consequences for using capOS as a robot brain.
- Research: Scientific Agent-Lab Software Stack – Scientific computing, solver, proof-assistant, notebook, and reproducible-package prior art for a capOS-hosted LLM research lab.
- seL4 Deep Dive: Lessons for capOS – Microkernel and capability reference.
- Small Open-Weights LLM Survey for the capOS Agent-Shell – Model candidates for the on-ISO local LLM.
- Research: Spritely, OCapN, and CapTP – Spritely, OCapN, CapTP, netlayers, locators, Syrup, promise pipelining, handoffs, and capability-network lessons for capOS.
- x2APIC and APIC Virtualization – Interrupt routing on modern x86.
- Fuchsia Zircon Kernel: Research Report for capOS – Handle-based OS reference.