AOS

NOTE: This is very experimental, use for research and development purposes only.

Requirements

• NodeJS version 20+

Getting Started

# Generate arweave Wallet
npx -y @peramweb/wallet > wallet.json
# Boot up AOS
npx -y @permaweb/aos@latest wallet.json

The wallet creates a personal process that allows you to use as a repl, you can send it commands and it will evaluate and return output.

About

AOS is a REPL that connects to a Personal AOS Process in the AO network. The AO network is a messaging passing process architecture. A Personal AOS Process is like a CPU on the Arweave Network. This repl will allow you to pass LUA expressions to your process, and those expressions get evaluated and return output to your screen.

Examples

When you boot up the OS, you can use https://lua.org to run expressions on your AOS Process.

First try "Hello AOS" - the return keyword sets the output variable that is passed to the output on the screen.

"Hello AOS"

You should get Hello AOS

What is happening here? You input, is getting wrapped in an signed AO message and submitted to a mu or messenger unit, which then forwards it to a su or Sequencer Unit, then the REPL app, calls the cu compute unit to evaluate the AO Message with your Personal Process. This generates output to be returned for display.

Lets try another expression:

1 + 41

You should get 42 the answer to the universe :P

So, thats cool, you can send expressions to the AO network and get them evaluated and get a response.

You can also set variables:

a = "Hello AOS"

Then type return a and you should get Hello AOS, neat

You can also create functions:

sayHi = function (name) return "Hello " .. name end
return sayHi("Sam")

You should get Hello Sam

Woohoo!

We can also pass messages to other AOS Processes!

return send("ohc9mIsNs3CFmMu7luiazRDLCFpiFJCfGVomJNMNHdU", "ping")

Or you can check your messages ( by creating a message check function)

list()

1: 
 Target: 9iqfaJv0XtOzs4yZml0araVLhr_uXKB1_3Rq9U82PoE
 Tags: 
  1: 
   name: Data-Protocol
   value: ao
  2: 
   name: Type
   value: message
  3: 
   name: From
   value: 9iqfaJv0XtOzs4yZml0araVLhr_uXKB1_3Rq9U82PoE
  4: 
   name: body
   value: Hi
  5: 
   name: Data-Protocol
   value: ao
  7: 
   name: SDK
   value: ao
 owner: z1pq2WzmaYnfDwvEFgUZBj48anUsxxN64ZjbWOsIn08

handlers

With aos you can add handlers to handle incoming messages, in this example, we will create a handler for "ping" - "pong".

In the aos repl, type .editor

handlers.append(
  function (msg)
    for i, o in ipairs(msg.Tags) do
      if o.name == "body" and o.value == "ping" then
        return -1
      end
    end
    return 0
  end,
  function (msg)
    ao.send({body = "pong"}, msg.From)
  end,
  "pingpong"
)

Then type .done

This will submit a handler to listen for messages that have a body tag with a value of ping then send back a message pong.

Once added you can ping yourself!

send(ao.id, "ping")

And check your inbox, you should have gotten a pong message.

this utility function finds the body Tag of the last message in the inbox and returns the value

utils.find(utils.propEq("name")("body"))(inbox[#inbox]).value