Quick start

Work through the seven steps in order. The first four get you a working system and the one idea everything else rests on. The last two are where InferNode stops resembling anything else you have run.

Everything happens on your own machine. There is no account, no cloud service, and nothing to sign up for.

The steps

	Step	You end with
1	Install and launch	InferNode running on your machine
2	Connect a model	Veltro able to answer you
3	Run the tour	An agent demonstrating the system, using the system
4	Everything is a file	The idea that makes the rest obvious
5	Give Veltro a task	Your own instruction, carried out
6	Namespaces contain	An agent failing to escape, and you knowing why
7	Your work survives	Knowing what is durable and how to get yesterday back

Steps 1–4 are the short path. If you only have twenty minutes, stop after step 4 — you will have seen what InferNode is. Steps 5 to 7 are where you find out whether you want it.

Step 2 is not optional

Veltro is an agent, so it needs a language model before it can do anything at all. A fresh install has none configured and prompts you on first launch — and every route through that prompt ends by asking you to relaunch InferNode. Skipping it is the single most common reason the tour appears to do nothing.

What you need

• A macOS (Apple Silicon), Linux (x86_64 or ARM64), or Windows (x86_64) machine
• About 30 MB of RAM and 10 MB of disk for InferNode itself
• No toolchain, no compiler, no dependencies — releases ship as signed binaries

Running headless?

Every step works without the GUI — on a server, in a container, over SSH. Each page marks the terminal path where it differs. Start at Install and launch either way.

A note on what you are installing

InferNode is an operating system, not a library. It runs as a normal process on your host — a hosted Inferno — with its own filesystem namespace, its own process table, and its own shell. Nothing it does inside that namespace touches your host unless you granted it a path, and step 5 is where you prove that to yourself.