Nexus Foundry

Forge your own sovereign system. Pick an edition, add drivers, set constraints, and produce proof-carrying artifacts.

What Is the Foundry?

The Foundry is the build pipeline that transforms a KDL recipe into a bootable, provenance-tracked operating system image. It is not a distro; it is a factory.

Current CLI status: the Micro development proof path can emit a bootable demo artifact with signature, BOM, and proof sidecars. The production Forge pipeline for reproducible recipe builds and registry publication is still planned.

Writing Recipes

A recipe is a KDL manifest:

edition "NEXUS_MECH" {
    target "aarch64-virt"

    kernel {
        scheduler "harmonic-hard"
        memory "locked"
    }

    modules {
        include "nip:drivers/imu/bno055"
        include "nip:drivers/lidar/velodyne"
        include "nip:lib/kinematics"
        exclude "nip:net/*"
    }

    constraints {
        no_heap = true
        max_boot_ms = 500
    }
}

Forge Output

Artifact	Description
.img	Bootable disk image
.npk	Self-contained package archive
bom.json	Bill of Materials with dependency tree
.proof	ProvChain attestation of the build

Pricing Tiers

Feature	Open (Free)	Foundry ($49/build)	Citadel (Contact)
Stream	Rolling	Quarterly freeze	10-year LTS
Recipe builder	CLI	Visual + CLI	On-prem visual
Build runners	Local only	Cloud + local	Cloud + on-prem
Signed output	Development sidecars today; production signing planned	Planned	Planned
Indemnity	—	—	Included

Next Steps

• Writing Recipes — KDL manifest syntax and constraints
• Build Pipeline — How the Forge resolves, compiles, and signs
• Trust Badges — What each badge means and how to earn them