Introduction

Lumic Control Center (short name: Lumic) is a self-hosted server, application and infrastructure manager for Linux written in Rust. Its public home is lumic.cc.

Its defining workflow is simple:

ssh root@server 'curl -fsSL https://lumic.cc/install.sh | sh'

After installation, the server becomes an autonomous Lumic node. Humans can operate it through the CLI and UI; coding agents can operate it through MCP. No Lumic relay service or central account is required for the normal architecture.

The model

 Lumic Control Center
          │
   ┌──────┼──────┐
   │      │      │
  CLI     UI     MCP
   │      │      │
   └──────┼──────┘
          │
       Linux VPS

Lumic combines useful parts of traditional hosting panels, OS managers, deployment platforms, infrastructure tools and application installers, but keeps Linux visible underneath.

Product rules

1. Host-native first. Lumic manages the Linux host directly.
2. Docker is a feature. Container workloads are supported without driving unrelated architecture.
3. Use Linux instead of replacing Linux. Lumic wraps apt, systemd, Git, nginx and other trusted mechanisms with typed operations, policy and audit.
4. No shell-shaped API. The public model is install package, restart service, deploy application, not arbitrary root shell strings.
5. One core, three interfaces. CLI, UI and MCP use the same application behavior.
6. Autonomous nodes. A central Lumic cloud must never be required for a useful installation.

Current status

The v2 repository contains the Rust workspace, CLI/daemon/MCP boundaries, installer foundation, public documentation deployment and multi-OS CI. The MVP is being hardened toward the first real VPS installation.