# MetaCA Studio (idea178-metaca-studio)

MetaCA Studio is a Python-first toolkit to prototype federated evolutionary cellular automata.

This repository contains a focused core implementing:

- CARule: deterministic fingerprinted CA rule representation
- CAGrid: 2D toroidal grid with Moore and Von Neumann neighborhoods
- TournamentSelector: evolutionary selection primitive with top-k sharing for federated workflows

The project is intentionally small and test-covered so it can be extended by other contributors with differentiable simulators, adapters (NumPy/PyTorch/JAX), and a Graph-of-Contracts-style registry.

See AGENTS.md for architecture, testing commands, and contribution guidance.

Quick start

```
./test.sh
```

This runs a package build verification followed by the unit-style tests.