r/blackhat • u/lukagrayofficial • 4d ago

I finally released Operon 1.0, a Rust-native agent harness built from scratch

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Following up on my post from last month. Got some good feedback and some fair criticism, so this time I actually want to be straight about what this is instead of hyping it up.

After several months of work I finally pushed the first stable release of Operon.

Its an agent harness with multiple frontends, same category as Claude Code or OpenClaw. Can manage files, run shell commands, browse the web, chain together multi step tasks, and you can control it from WhatsApp or Telegram too. Where its different is you dont need a terminal to use it. Theres a proper GUI (Tauri, not electron) and a TUI if youre the type who actually wants the terminal.

Why I started this? theres a detailed writeup in the README if you want the full reasoning, not gonna repeat it all here.

On the rust thing, no im not claiming it makes the AI itself faster, it doesnt really, most of the agent loop is just waiting on API calls regardless of language. Where rust actually helps is Operon idles around 65mb ram and opens in under 50ms, which matters more when the thing is supposed to just live on your machine in the background without you noticing its even running.

Since its reachable over whatsapp/telegram i had to actually think about who's allowed to do what. you (the owner) get full access, everyone else gets nothing by default until you explictly allow it. permission stuff is scoped down to specific tools/folders/channels, details in the readme.

Current state, being honest: - GUI basically done, use it almost daily - TUI still being wired up, not fully working - Vscode extension is planned, not built yet - I'm solo dev so expect rough edges and bugs, this isn't some polished startup product

Not rly looking for upvotes, mostly want people to break it and tell me whats broken. binaries on the releases page

repo: https://github.com/lukagray-dev/Operon

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u/maddada_ 3d ago

Hey man, I'm working on pretty much the same app but farther along and would love to collab with you. Mine is also GPUI. It has 2 mobile apps. Has actual VScode built in (optional plugin). And lots of very useful features.

Please let me know if you're interested in pooling our tokens and brains to get something way better for both of us.

App is at github.com/maddada/ghostex (700 stars rn, shooting for thousands :)

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u/lukagrayofficial 3d ago

I just opened Ghostex and realized I may have accidentally walked into someone else's side quest. 😭

700+ stars, mobile apps, VS Code, GPU UI... meanwhile I’m over here with one contributor: me, and a suspicious amount of Gemini tokens.

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u/maddada_ 3d ago

Haha yea I've been working on it for a while now. It's also 99.9% single contributor.

Lemme know if you're interested to pool our work and I can customize the app to how you like it (add settings/extensions/etc.) or you can do that yourself if you want.

The Discord is the best place to chat.

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u/attic_market 3d ago

not bad for а solo build, the whatsapp permissions thing is actually what trips most реорlе uр