Thox-ai/ThoxOS-Paper

ThoxOS and ThoxInux: Architecture, Evidence, and a Validation Protocol for Local-First AI

Authors: Craig Ross and Tommy Xaypanya (THOX.ai LLC) Version: 0.2.0-review (public technical draft, November 1, 2026) Status: Public technical draft. Experimental validation incomplete. Not peer reviewed. An arXiv submission has been prepared and is in progress; no arXiv version exists yet.

DOI of record: 10.5281/zenodo.23876230 (Zenodo: PDF, LaTeX source, bibliography, and the 28-claim evidence ledger)

Abstract

Local AI systems require an evidence chain from kernel behavior to application execution, model quality, and physical device operation. This technical report examines the ThoxOS program with ThoxInux, its Ginux-derived, Rust-first x86-64 foundation. We reconcile an earlier Linux-based design with current source and release records, distinguish reusable component evidence from integrated-system evidence, and define a falsifiable validation protocol. The reviewed records document engineering-preview EFI releases and bounded virtual-machine lifecycle tests. They also record resident-agent faults in an edition payload, conditional build reproducibility, and incomplete Linux ABI behavior. Published language-model evaluations carry additional restrictions on scoring scope, serving templates, quantization, and hardware applicability. We formalize the separation between service entitlement and action authorization, and specify experiments for workload compatibility, agent lifecycle, offline operation, update recovery, and device feasibility. The review contributes a revision-bound evidence map and an explicit set of integration tests; it does not introduce a new kernel, report a performance advantage, or establish production security. Historical unit-test counts, repository-reported runs, publisher-reported model scores, and unexecuted protocols remain distinct. The resulting architecture draft supports continued implementation while identifying the measurements required for a complete empirical systems paper.

Files in this repository

• THOX_ThoxOS_Research_Draft_0.2.0.pdf — the 11-page manuscript
• main.tex — LaTeX source
• references.bib — bibliography (21 references)
• evidence-ledger.json — the 28-claim evidence ledger the paper's claims are scoped against

Canonical sources

• Paper repository and release: https://github.com/ttracx/thox-research-paper/releases/tag/thoxos-0.2.0-review
• Paper tree: https://github.com/ttracx/thox-research-paper/tree/main/papers/thoxos
• Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/record/23876230

Related models

• ThoxOS-Kernel-0.8B — released; its gate record is scoped in the paper's evidence ledger
• ThoxOS-Kernel-4B — documented baseline in the paper, not promoted
• ThoxOS-Kernel-27B — card-only in the paper's record; weights are not public

Citation

@misc{ross2026thoxos,
  author = {Ross, Craig and Xaypanya, Tommy},
  title = {ThoxOS and ThoxInux: Architecture, Evidence, and a Validation Protocol for Local-First AI},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23876230},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23876230},
  note = {Public technical draft, version 0.2.0-review. THOX.ai LLC.}
}

License

CC BY 4.0.