ODS V3 Pre-Release

Osmantic Deployment System

Public testing and refinement ahead of the official V3 launch.

Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into a private AI server.

AI server and homelab setup is rapidly becoming a solved problem. It should feel that way for everyone.

ODS installs and wires together everything you need to run AI locally, so you do not have to assemble Ollama, Open WebUI, n8n, ComfyUI, and privacy tools by hand:

• Local model inference — run open models on your own hardware
• ChatGPT-style web UI — talk to your models from any browser
• Control dashboard — manage models, services, setup, GPU status, and extensions from one place
• Voice, agents, and workflows — build automations that can listen, speak, call tools, and get work done
• RAG and search — connect local documents, private search, and retrieval workflows
• Image generation — run local image tools without sending prompts to a hosted API
• Privacy and ops — keep service auth, secrets, observability, and diagnostics in one local stack

No cloud required. No subscriptions required. Inference, chat history and your files stay on your machine, and ODS collects no telemetry. By default it goes online only to download models and container images, to check GitHub for ODS releases, and to run web searches the Portal agent makes for you; the FAQ explains each one and how to turn it off. Cloud and hybrid API modes are optional when you want them.

Status: V3 pre-release. The installers below install the current main branch, which receives fixes continuously and is not a signed release; the verified installer preview stays separate until a signed release passes end-to-end testing. Existing installations pick up code fixes by re-running the installer (how); ods update refreshes container images only. v3.0.0 is the latest published source release; check the security advisories before pinning it. Known limits and validation status: V3 release notes, Release Validation, Release Channels and Installer Trust.

The repository root holds this README, the installers, the security policy and CI workflows; ods/ is the product: services, installer phases, compose files, dashboard, CLI, tests and operator docs.

Get Started

Choose your system, copy the block, run it in a normal terminal. ODS installs the stack, picks a model for your hardware, starts the services, and gives you the local web UI.

Linux or macOS

curl -fsSL https://install.osmantic.com/ods.sh | bash

Windows PowerShell — guided Ubuntu/WSL2 setup with Pixel/Portal

& {
    $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
    $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
    $odsSrc = Join-Path $env:TEMP ('ods-install-' + [guid]::NewGuid().ToString('N'))
    $odsZip = Join-Path $odsSrc 'ods-main.zip'
    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $odsSrc | Out-Null
    Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing 'https://github.com/Osmantic/ODS/archive/refs/heads/main.zip' -OutFile $odsZip
    Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $odsZip -DestinationPath $odsSrc
    $odsEntry = Join-Path $odsSrc 'ODS-main\install.ps1'
    if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $odsEntry -PathType Leaf)) { throw 'The downloaded archive does not contain the ODS installer.' }
    Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
    & $odsEntry
}

Linux and macOS: Docker must be installed and running.

Windows: open a normal PowerShell window (not "Run as administrator"), paste the block, and answer the prompts. Nothing else needs to be installed first. The installer:

1. Checks free disk space (40 GB) and that hardware virtualization is on.
2. Offers to enable WSL2 and install Docker Desktop with winget. Windows asks for administrator permission, then one restart; setup continues by itself after you sign in again.
3. Offers to download Ubuntu 24.04 and asks you, in PowerShell, for a new Ubuntu username and password.
4. Starts Docker Desktop and checks that it is connected to Ubuntu. If not, it shows the one setting to turn on in Docker Desktop and continues as soon as it works.
5. Installs ODS inside Ubuntu with --pixel --no-hermes. A rerun leaves out --no-hermes, so a Hermes you added from Extensions stays on. When Ubuntu asks for your [sudo] password, type the Ubuntu password; nothing appears while you type.
6. Verifies Pixel and Portal, then opens Portal in your browser and creates the ODS app on your desktop and in the Start menu: Portal in its own Microsoft Edge window, with the ODS icon. Without Edge it adds an ODS Portal web link to your desktop instead.

Each step asks before changing anything and stops with instructions if it cannot finish; rerun the same command after fixing it. There is no fallback to Hermes or the native Windows installer. On NVIDIA machines, update the Windows driver to 570 or newer first. To use an existing distribution, add -Distro <name> (names from wsl -l -v).

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