Farm.OS — the autonomous operating system for a one-person farm

kimbrolly-a11y/farm-os

Core idea. FarmOS is an autonomous AI operating system for a one-person, off-grid, 18-vertical eco-tourism farm. A single Claude agent acts as the entire operations team — it senses the whole farm through a live digital twin, predicts what's about to go wrong, and acts through 12+ tools, logging the reasoning behind every decision. Technical angle (what's actually built). A unified in-memory digital twin (18 verticals, ~90 assets/sensors) is seeded from one config file, so the whole farm is one source of truth an agent can reason across. The supervisor runs an autonomous sense→predict→act loop via the Anthropic tool-runner, and degrades gracefully to a deterministic rule engine when offline or keyless — so the demo never breaks. Two things make it more than a chatbot: (1) a hard safety invariant — it can never shed a life-support load (incubators, aerators, cold chain, animal feed/water); and (2) offline resilience — when the internet drops it keeps operating on cached rules and queues external syncs, flushing on reconnect. There's also a real-sensor integration seam: live Home Assistant/MQTT readings route into the same twin behind the same interface, so flipping one flag runs a vertical on real hardware — no rewrite. Traction. Live in production and fully browsable (no login), public repo, both flagship demos working, plus live per-vertical P&L, 92% circular-economy loops, a staff-dispatch layer (AI directs the humans), a guest app, and an interactive farm map. What to pay attention to. (1) The crisis scenario — with battery at 22%, watch the agent shed discretionary loads while explicitly protecting every life-support load, explaining each move. (2) The offline scenario — cut the internet and it keeps the farm alive. (3) The activity log — every autonomous action carries a written rationale. The novel part isn't any single sensor or model; it's one safety-constrained agent reasoning and acting across all 18 domains at once.