Open source · early
An AI-native operating system for building and running a startup
Grid brings projects, agents, development, deployment, infrastructure and operations into one browser-accessible control plane. Humans and AI agents are both first-class workers inside it.
The loop Grid is built to hold
- Idea
- Research
- Requirements
- Design
- Tasks
- Development
- Review
- QA
- Deployment
- Monitoring
- Incidents
- Release
- Feedback
What makes it Grid
Four constraints decide every design call. They are the reason Grid is an operating layer rather than one more tool to keep open in a tab.
- Browser first
- The browser is the interface, not the machine. Execution happens on a host you choose — local, Docker, SSH or a remote VPS — and the same workspace opens from any device.
- Agent native
- Agents are workers, not a chat sidebar. Grid owns the coordination: who holds which task, what they may touch, and what has to pass before work moves on.
- Provider agnostic
- No AI vendor becomes architectural bedrock. An agent runs through whichever provider you point it at, and swapping one out is configuration rather than a rewrite.
- Portable by default
- The machine is never the product. Projects, tasks, sessions and context outlive the box they ran on, so a dead laptop costs you a reconnect rather than a rebuild.
Grid is not just an IDE, just an agent harness, just a chatbot, just a Kanban board, just a CI dashboard, another wrapper around one model. Those are capabilities inside it. Grid is the environment that connects them.
Where Grid is today
Grid is early and open. The engineering spine is real — a Bun workspaces monorepo with a Next.js control plane, a Hono API on Bun over Postgres, a shared UI package, a docs site and a full lint, typecheck, test and CI pipeline. You can sign in today, create a project and file tasks on a board; the surfaces that turn those tasks into agent work are next.
Working today
- Projects and tasks
- The board
- Auth, MFA and passkeys
- Docs site
Defined, not built
- Agent runs in isolated worktrees
- Review and diff surface
- Ship and operate
Install Grid
Grid self-hosts. Clone it, install with Bun, and it runs on your machine — the browser is the interface, so anything you can reach it from becomes a workstation.
- Bun 1.4.2
- PostgreSQL (or Docker Compose)
- Node-compatible system dependencies
01Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/shabirkhan-dev/grid.git cd grid02Install dependencies with Bun
bun install bun run prepare03Start every workspace
bun run dev
The web control plane starts on :3000, the API on :4000 and the docs on :3002. Full setup, Docker and deployment notes live in the repository README.