Developer ships first Rust AI agent runtime, fixes two CI failures within 20 minutes

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A developer publicly released AgentOS v0.1.0-alpha, a 10-crate Rust runtime layer for AI agents, after keeping the repository private during development. Within minutes of going public, CI flagged a Clippy lint error where a HashMap was being iterated unnecessarily with key-value pairs instead of the cleaner .values() method, which was resolved with a one-line fix. A second failure emerged during the release workflow when cross-compiling for Linux arm64 failed due to missing OpenSSL headers on the x86_64 GitHub Actions runner. Rather than rush a potentially risky fix to a security-sensitive dependency under time pressure, the developer chose to drop the arm64 target from the initial release and ship binaries for the four remaining platforms. The arm64 issue has been filed as a tracked issue, with the leading proposed fix being a migration from openssl-sys to the pure-Rust rustls library to eliminate system OpenSSL dependencies across all targets.

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