Wawona ships a bundled zsh plus Weston terminal.c on Apple mobile (and a constrained zsh on watchOS). That is an on-device local shell: a native port path inside the app sandbox. No guest OS required.

It is not a VM or container machine. Those are separate, planned Machine kinds for running guests.

Also bundled where the target allows: coreutils, foot, neovim.

Type help in the shell for the catalog. ls $WAWONA_ROOTFS/usr/bin (or ls ../usr/bin from HOME) lists in-process names.

WASM / WASI

Wasm is not platform-native (tradeoff vs a true in-process port), but it gives a portable Wawona Runtime with full App Store compliance: WASI P1/P2 modules plus wpm. Drop a .wasm into Documents (Files / File Sharing) or install from repo.wawona.io/wasm, then run:

wasm ./tool.wasm hello
./tool.wasm hello

The module is a document. Apple does not sign it. The interpreter (Wasmtime Pulley on iPhone) is inside the reviewed app. Native ports stay first-class. See WASM / WASI and wasm-wasi.md.

What is not shipping

There is no Debian/apt or StoreKit ODR module catalog. Optional long-tail software is WASM / WASI for Wawona Runtime (Files drop-in or the bundled Wasm package client). Linux containers are a separate planned Machines kind.

watchOS

zsh ships with constrained UX. coreutils is excluded. See WATCHOS-SCOPE.

Hub: ios-local-shell.