Daimonos
An agent-optimized OS layer that makes AI coding agents faster and cheaper.
Daimonos replaces the built-in file, search, exec, and git tools in your AI coding agent with structured equivalents that return compact JSON instead of raw terminal output. The result: fewer tokens consumed, fewer round-trips, and lower API costs — with zero changes to your workflow.
Platforms: Linux (x86_64, aarch64) and macOS (Apple Silicon, Intel). Windows support is planned.
For repository agent/operator conventions, see AGENTS.md (especially
Daimonos tool usage policy).
The name comes from Greek daimon (agent/spirit), the etymological root of "daemon."
The problem
When an AI agent runs cargo test, it gets back hundreds of lines of terminal
output — progress bars, compile messages, passing test names — when all it
needs is "47 passed, 0 failed." The agent pays for every token of that noise:
reading it, reasoning about it, and carrying it in context for the rest of the
session.
The same waste happens with git status, docker ps, ls -la, and every
other shell command. Agents spend 30-50% of their token budget on verbose,
unstructured tool output.
