Crate oxide_k 

Oxide Kernel (oxide-k)

The oxide-k crate is the central micro-kernel of the Rust Oxide Agent-Native OS. It orchestrates modules, mediates inter-module communication through a secure message bus, and maintains a global state registry backed by SQLite.

The kernel is designed around three independent yet cooperating subsystems:

• module – Module orchestration. Defines the Module and WasmModule traits and provides a ModuleManager that handles lifecycle (load, start, stop, unload) for both native Rust and WebAssembly plugins.
• bus – Secure message bus. An asynchronous message-passing layer built on tokio::sync::mpsc with strongly-typed Command and Event messages, plus an Envelope that carries provenance metadata.
• registry – Global state registry. A sqlx-backed SQLite store (in-memory by default for development) for module metadata and configuration values.

These are tied together by the Kernel façade, which exposes a single entry point for kernel initialization and orchestration.

Re-exports

pub use error::KernelError;

pub use error::Result;

pub use kernel::Kernel;

Modules

bus

Secure Message Bus

error

Unified error and result types for the Oxide Kernel.

kernel

The Kernel façade ties the three subsystems together.

manifest

Module manifests

module

Module Orchestration

registry

Global State Registry

wasm_exec

wasmtime-backed Wasm executor

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