I'm 49 and had never written a line of code. Six weeks later I open-sourced an AI agent OS.

Six weeks before this repo went public I had never written a line of code. No job in tech. I'm 49.

I'm putting that at the top because it should change how you read the rest. I'm not going to pretend I'm an engineer who knew what they were doing. I'll show you the decisions that ended up in the build, explain why they're there, and be honest about the bits where I was lost and asking an AI "is this stupid?" over and over until something worked.

The project is Mission Control. It's a self-hosted agentic OS. You chat with an always-on agent (I called mine Dave), and when you want to separate tasks he hands it to a pipeline: a repeatable workflow run by a team of agents. It runs on your hardware, with your choice of model, free and local through LM Studio or Ollama, or a paid cloud model through OpenRouter. The code is open source under MIT and it's mostly TypeScript.

Here are the parts I think are worth your time, whatever your experience level.

Chat and pipelines are two different things, on purpose