Mistro ships as a custom Debian 13 ISO, hardened on first boot. Your box — a mini PC, a NUC, a retired laptop, a VPS you already rent. No special silicon required.
Firewall comes up. VPN tunnel connects. Backups schedule. Monitoring starts. No AI needed for any of this — the engine is scripts, timers, and services. It runs forever.
Plug in your Claude subscription (first month included). Now the modules think, explain, and converse. Turn it off any time — the engine keeps running.
Each module is a tested recipe. Not a weekend hack. VPN router, email agent, media server, content pipeline, research agent, voice — enable what you need, skip what you don't.
Tested builds. Staged rollouts. No surprise breaking changes. You can always pin a version. You can always roll back. The engine is yours; HQ just ships you safer versions of it.