Nexus Roadmap — Status, Live

Overview

The Stack at a Glance

149+

Commits, Core Repos

Arches Booting on QEMU

24 / 24

Build Steps Green

2022

Plan Started

Done In Progress Planned Statuses are pulled from the live repos — git history, test runs, and measured benchmarks.

NexFS — Sovereign Filesystem

Core Done

Status: the flash-native, content-addressed core is running. Format is O(metadata) — a 100 GB volume formats in ~0.05 s, lists in 0.08 s, reads in 0.04 s, snapshots in ~3.2 s, and the image stays fully sparse.

CAS + Merkle DAG, CDC chunking (1–7 KiB, 4 KiB target), TimeWarp snapshots via a single Root Register write
Journal + reclaim: 5/5 SIGKILL crash scenarios end in intact data, zero corruption
Mounted through the Linux VFS (FUSE) — read/write/mkdir/rename/truncate, byte-exact round-trips
45/45 lifecycle + crash tests green

Next Mesh replication (UTCP, DAG_SYNC — the M5 arc) · random-access writes · paged/sparse BAM map · native NexusOS + *BSD mounts

Rumpk Kernel + HAL

Booting

Status: the sovereign kernel boots on QEMU across x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V. A 280 KB Nim kernel over a freestanding Zig HAL — no libc, no POSIX.

Harmonic 4-spectrum scheduler, ION ring IPC (lock-free, zero-copy)
NRP registry, ProvChain audit ledger, Kinetic energy budgets
Multi-arch HAL (RISC-V 64 / ARM64 / x86_64), QEMU bootable

Next NipCell isolation hardening · native device drivers · the identity stack integration · ARM64/RISC-V bootable images

Identity — SoulKey, Passport, Capabilities

Planned

Status: the constitutional layer of the manifesto. The capability model is designed; the identity primitives are next.

SoulKey: locally derived, cryptographically owned identity
Passport + Capability Manifest: declarable, signed, scoped, revocable authority
"You do not log into Nexus. Nexus authenticates to you."

Next SoulKey derivation · capability algebra wiring · Pledge/Unveil enforcement at hardware level

Package Ecosystem — NIP / Bazaar

Dev Proofs

Status: the nip CLI creates, builds, dev-signs, installs, lists, and executes local NPKs. The current proof pack carries development BLAKE3 sidecars; production Ed25519 signing is in the Forge/Bazaar pipeline.

Registry validation + badge evidence in the proof pack
Graft-capable: pacman / nix / apt conversions into the CAS
19-package seed catalog with provenance framing

Next Production Ed25519 signing · reproducible-build automation · the Forge build pipeline · Bazaar federation

Mesh — UTCP / LWF / Noise / M5

In Progress

Status: the protocol components are implemented and integrated (NetSwitch, LWF wire frames, UTCP transport, Noise XX sessions, CellID identity). The convergence target — three Nexus instances forming a mesh with zero Linux dependency — is next.

LWF: universal frame format, dual-mode encryption
UTCP: identity-centric sovereign transport; Noise XX forward-secret sessions
NexFS mesh replication rides the same fabric (the M5 arc)

Next Three-node mesh convergence · DAG_SYNC + BLOCK_WANT/PUT · Kinetic Credits economy · gossip discovery

Host Platforms — Linux, *BSD, NexusOS

FUSE Done

Status: the Linux path is live — nexfs-fuse image mountpoint serves the VFS. Raw-device format works on block devices (ioctl-sized). The native platforms are next.

Linux FUSE adapter: full op battery verified, 1 MB byte-exact round-trips
Raw-device format + native block-device sizing
CLI: format, snap, reclaim, file ops — all against the same core

Next Native NexusOS mount · *BSD raw devices (DIOCGMEDIASIZE) · FUSE mesh-profile wiring

Status: updated August 4, 2026 · NexFS 109 commits · Rumpk 40 commits · suite 24/24 build steps · agentic-coding-assisted, Sober-gated, human-reviewed.

One plan. Live status.