meclaw is public — where agents build agents

[mmeyerlein]

meclaw has been public since 0.1.0 in June and stands at v0.29.0 today. Nothing about the code changes today — today is the day we start telling people about it.

One static Rust binary turns a directory tree into a running colony: every folder is a cell, its config.json its definition, the edges the routes a message can take. A running colony changes through exactly one operation — a mutation posted to /colony/mutations, validated, applied while everything keeps running, recorded with its requester. That one door is what makes agents rebuilding their own harness auditable rather than terrifying.

Start here: the five steps in § Start an assistant go from an empty folder to an assistant that answers — install, grow the OS into the running colony over HTTP, send a message, read the answer off the trace, watch it in the browser. The long version of why it is built this way: https://meclaw.ai/blog/where-agents-build-agents

Honest state: Linux only, code cells run python3, one screen and one app, voice is roadmap, not for unsupervised production yet.

meclaw is under heavy development. It is not finished, and it is open source so it does not have to be finished alone. Good first contributions: example colonies, template cells, docs drift-fixes — see CONTRIBUTING.md and the good first issue label. Questions here, bugs in the tracker.