Redline MachineOS
MachineOS builds a digital twin of your vehicle from the photos, video and measurements you take, and puts a mechanic on your iPhone that has read it. Every job starts from what’s known and ends on the record.
REDLINE MACHINE OS
Eddie Bauer · Twin v0.1
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The digital twin
Home is your vehicle in 3D. Drag to orbit, pinch to zoom, and tap any of 11 regions — a wheel, the cabin, the engine bay — to see what’s been captured there and what’s wrong with it.
The Issues layer tints each region from amber to red by severity, with a count pinned to every side that faces you. Switch to Captured to see what the baseline still hasn’t covered.
Tap a region and the focus bar names its worst issue, with a one-line tip on what it probably means. Open it for its intake steps, its components, and the next shot to take.
Scroll to turn · drag to spin
The structure
MachineOS keeps what you captured apart from what it read, and both apart from what you’ve confirmed. Each layer points back to the one beneath it.
Evidence
Photos, video with sound, measurements and optional LiDAR scans — taken step by step through the 60-step baseline, or whenever something comes up. They’re stored on your iPhone, in a folder you can open in the Files app.
Observations
Claude reads each capture and returns what it can see, each marked by how it’s known — observed, inferred or unknown — with a confidence and a link back to the image. Unknowns come with the exact shot that would settle them.
The twin
Confirmed facts land on the components they belong to, grouped by system and mapped to 11 regions on the 3D model, with issues, measurements and a timeline attached to each.
Memory
After chats and finished jobs, MachineOS proposes what it learned — a part replaced, the tools you own, where you buy parts. Nothing is kept until you accept it, and what you accept goes into a hash-chained log that can be exported for Polis.
In your hand
Capture
The baseline walks you around the truck in 60 guided captures, from the VIN plate to the frame rails. Every step says where to stand and what to fill the frame with, and marks you on a top-down map of the truck. Can’t reach one? Skip it with a reason and it waits in Requested Captures.
Photo · video with sound · measurements · optional LiDAR
Stand 3 m out from the front corner on the passenger side (the truck’s right). Facing the grille, it’s the corner on your LEFT. Whole truck in frame, bumper to bumper, phone at door-handle height.
framing reference · Front corner, passenger sideEach capture is analyzed by Claude, and what comes back is sorted by how it was known: identified from the image, possible but unverified, or unknown — with the exact shot that would settle it. New parts stay out of your twin until you confirm them.
Identified · Possible · Unknown
Fix
Issues are sorted by severity and keep their evidence: why each was flagged, how to verify it, and whether the AI or you raised it. Report a new one on video — show it, say what’s wrong, and the form fills itself in from what you said.
Swipe right to resolve · left to dismissSorted by severity. Swipe right to resolve, left to delete.
◆◆◆ HIGH · 2
◆◆◇ MEDIUM · 3
◆◇◇ LOW · 1
Every issue has its own Mechanic. It knows the truck’s recorded facts, the issue, and the tools you own. It leads with the likely cause, tells you what to check first, flags what’s dangerous, and asks the questions that narrow it down. Try answering it.
Streams on your iPhone · typical specs, labelled verifyMECHANIC
Knows your truck’s recorded facts, this issue and your tool inventory.
When you press lock, does the driver door buzz?
A buzz with no movement means the motor runs but its gear is stripped.
PICK ONE
What else fails on that door?
PICK ANY
When the fix is clear, the Mechanic writes the job: prep, access, repair, reassembly, test, cleanup — with gotchas, typical torque, and when to stop and get help. It keeps the plan current as you talk. A clip breaks; a step appears.
Plans update from the conversation
Parts and tools are checked against what you already own, and where you last saw them. For the rest, Claude searches fourteen retailers. Only links that came back from the search are kept, and every price says verify.
RockAuto · AutoZone · Amazon · NAPA · and ten more
Keep
Point the camera at a drawer and MachineOS boxes every tool it sees. Keep each one, mark what isn’t a tool, add what it missed. One inventory serves every vehicle, organized down to the wall, the cabinet and the drawer.
Recognized against the tools you already have
Scan registration, insurance and receipts. Text is recognized on the iPhone first, and title, registration and insurance stay on the device until you tap Read it. Fuel receipts become rolling MPG; expiry dates become reminders.
Names and addresses are never stored‹ Home
22 days · Oct 28$85 · Oct 19TITLE · 1
REGISTRATION · 1
INSURANCE · 1
MAINTENANCE · 2
After chats and finished jobs, MachineOS proposes what it learned — the actuator you replaced, that you buy from RockAuto, the torque wrench you own. Nothing is kept until you accept it, and what you accept goes into a hash-chained log.
Exportable in the Polis Memory format
Stand 3 m out from the front corner on the passenger side (the truck’s right). Facing the grille, it’s the corner on your LEFT. Whole truck in frame, bumper to bumper, phone at door-handle height.
framing reference · Front corner, passenger sideSorted by severity. Swipe right to resolve, left to delete.
◆◆◆ HIGH · 2
◆◆◇ MEDIUM · 3
◆◇◇ LOW · 1
MECHANIC
Knows your truck’s recorded facts, this issue and your tool inventory.
When you press lock, does the driver door buzz?
A buzz with no movement means the motor runs but its gear is stripped.
PICK ONE
What else fails on that door?
PICK ANY
‹ Home
22 days · Oct 28$85 · Oct 19TITLE · 1
REGISTRATION · 1
INSURANCE · 1
MAINTENANCE · 2
The Mechanic
Every issue has its own Mechanic. It reads the truck’s recorded facts, the issue and your tools, and follows the same rules every time.
Every answer leads with the likely cause, then what to check first.
Anything that can hurt you gets its own Safety note.
Up to three tappable questions, plus the photo or video that would settle it.
Torque and sizes only as typical ranges, marked verify.
The job plan changes in small edits as you talk — a step added, a part swapped — and is never rebuilt from scratch.
Parts from fourteen retailers and how-to videos are kept only if they came back from the search.
Checked against the tools you own, and where you last saw them.
Every turn carries the vehicle’s recorded facts, the issue, other open issues, your tool inventory and what MachineOS remembers.
Issues stay possibilities until they’re verified, and your corrections outrank anything the AI inferred.
Answers come from Claude using your own Anthropic API key, kept in the iOS Keychain. There is no MachineOS server in between.
Evidence first
Every fact in the twin says how it’s known, with a link back to the capture it came from. What the AI inferred never quietly turns into what you confirmed.
The correction sheet from Capture Review. Tap to try it.
The philosophy
If it isn’t legible in the image, it isn’t stated as fact. It’s marked unknown, with the shot that would settle it.
“Never state a part number, brand, size, date or specification that is not legible or unambiguous in the images.”
An issue says what was seen, how serious it might be, and how to verify it — never that it’s certain.
“Issues are possibilities, never diagnoses.”
Confirm, reject or correct anything, and it stays that way. The AI never re-asserts a value you overruled.
“Human corrections are authoritative.”
Specs come as typical ranges marked verify. A torque value is a starting point, not an order.
“Torque and sizes only as “typical … , verify”.”
Plain sentences, the way someone standing next to you in the garage would put it.
“…as an engineer standing beside the owner would say them.”
The job plan changes in small edits as you talk, so progress and notes are never lost to a rewrite.
“Small edits only; never rebuild it.”
Quoted lines are from the instructions MachineOS gives Claude.
There is no MachineOS cloud. AI features use your own Anthropic API key, kept in the iOS Keychain, and requests go from your iPhone to Anthropic.
The twin, every photo and video, Mechanic chats and the tool inventory are stored on the device — browsable in the Files app, exportable as JSON.
VIN, door-jamb and registration captures, and title, registration and insurance documents, stay on the iPhone until you choose to send them.
No signal under the truck? Captures save offline and are analyzed when you’re back in range.
MachineOS is being built for iOS 17.4 and later. The 3D twin and the guided baseline are made for the Ford Bronco first; any vehicle gets issues, documents, tools, memory and the Mechanic. LiDAR scanning needs an iPhone with LiDAR.
All Redline offeringsScreens are from the app running in the iOS Simulator with sample data; some are redrawn to animate. Renders use the Bronco model that ships in the app.