Meclaw turns Linux folders into a mutable runtime for persistent agents

Berlin builder Marcus Meyer packages filesystem-defined agents, runtime mutation and Linux isolation into one experimental Rust binary.

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Meclaw tests whether agent infrastructure can shrink from a hosted orchestration stack into inspectable files and one Linux binary while retaining persistent state, runtime mutation and documented boundaries around untrusted code.

A glowing, intricate 3D rendering of a Linux directory tree, with active software agents indicated by pulsing light within its structured folders.

Marcus Meyer is building Meclaw, a persistent AI-agent runtime that turns a Linux directory tree into a running network of actors. The Meclaw repository packages the runtime in one statically linked Rust binary and lets agents alter that network while it is running.…

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