---
title: "nixad — your NixOS in your own words"
url: https://nixad.org/en/
lang: en
description: "nixad is an assistant for NixOS systems: you say what you want. It checks, proposes, waits for your go — and applies it declaratively."
updated: 2026-10-09
---

# Your NixOS. In your own words.

nixad is an assistant for NixOS systems. You say what you want. It checks, proposes, waits for your go — and applies it declaratively.

nixad ▸ install fail2ban and show me the disk usage

[Watch the demo → nixa.systems](https://nixa.systems/en/)

## Six things, every day

### Understand

You ask about your system in plain language. The answer says what it is based on.

### Propose

Changes arrive as a proposal with a reason. Never as a surprise.

### Approve

Nothing is applied without your go. Turning it down takes one word.

### Apply declaratively

What you approve ends up in the NixOS configuration. Reproducible and revertible.

### Watch ahead

nixad reports what stands out — repeated login attempts, say. The proposal comes with it.

### On your machine

nixad runs where your system runs. Your configuration and your logs stay with you.

## What we hold to

### You stay the admin

Every change needs your approval. nixad proposes and waits; you decide.

### Declarative, not a trail of clicks

The state of your system lives in its configuration, not in a series of forgotten manual steps. Every state is reproducible and every step can be taken back.

### Traceable

Every answer says what it is based on. What nixad does not know, it says — instead of guessing.

### Local first

nixad works on your machine. What your system knows about itself does not leave it without reason.

## Where nixad stands today

```
nixad --version
nixad 0.1 — in development, in use on the systems of Saar.Systems
```

nixad is not publicly available yet. If you would like to try it, write to us.

## Write to us

[$ contact --email kontakt@dominik.saar.systems](mailto:kontakt@dominik.saar.systems)

One e-mail is enough: briefly, what you run and what you hope nixad can do for you.