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ByteBiota Wiki Home¶

Start Here: Read project-overview.md for a high-level summary of ByteBiota goals, scope, and stakeholders.
Navigation Tips: Follow the section pages below; each subsection corresponds to a dedicated Markdown file organized in logical subdirectories.

core/simulation-foundations.md — Simulation philosophy, guiding principles, success metrics.
core/system-architecture.md — High-level diagrams, core services, data flow, and deployment topology.
core/technology-stack.md — Languages, frameworks, tooling, dependencies, and versioning policy.
core/evolution-dynamics.md — Digital evolution principles, troubleshooting guide, and configuration best practices.

simulation/world-model.md — Spatial/temporal resolution, environmental layers, resource systems, and global rules.
simulation/entity-lifecycle.md — Creation, reproduction, death, and persistence rules for entities.
simulation/interaction-models.md — How entities interact (competition, cooperation, communication) and conflict resolution.
simulation/event-processing.md — Tick/update loop, scheduling, randomness, and determinism controls.
simulation/ai-behavior.md — Decision-making algorithms, behavior trees, reinforcement learning policies, tuning knobs.
simulation/opcode-reference.md — Full instruction set listing, opcode families, and alias mapping.
simulation/seed-bank.md — Seed retention policy, taxonomy metadata, reserve guarantees, and checkpoint audits.

biology/taxonomy-overview.md — Classification scheme, terminology, and naming conventions.
biology/species-profiles/ — Individual Markdown files per species describing traits, abilities, habitats, and evolution paths.
biology/traits-and-mutations.md — Trait definitions, mutation rules, heritability, and balancing notes.
biology/ecosystem-dynamics.md — Food webs, population dynamics, resource regeneration, and disequilibrium scenarios.

analytics/data-pipelines.md — Logging strategy, telemetry, ETL jobs, storage formats, and retention policy.
analytics/metrics-and-observability.md — Key performance indicators, dashboards, alerting, and health checks.
analytics/experiment-playbooks.md — How to design, run, and evaluate simulation experiments.
analytics/scripts.md — CLI utilities, dashboards, and analysis tooling built atop the core simulator.

architecture/distributed-architecture.md — Worker/server payloads, aggregation, and distributed metrics schema.
architecture/hybrid-tuning.md — Discovery, authority, policies, and operational playbooks for the hybrid tuning subsystem.

interface/ui/ui-ux-overview.md — Interface patterns, wireframes, and accessibility considerations.
interface/ui/ui-components.md — UI system architecture, components, and integration with distributed server.
interface/ui/web-styling-guide.md — Comprehensive design system and styling conventions for the web interface.
interface/ui/icon-system.md — Procedural icon generation system for organism visualization.
interface/ui/memory-map.md — Real-time soup memory visualization system.
interface/api-reference.md — Public APIs, endpoints, authentication, rate limits, and sample requests.
interface/scenario-authoring.md — How to author custom scenarios, scripts, or mods.

operations/deployment/deployment-guide.md — Environment setup, CI/CD pipelines, release process, rollback strategy.
operations/deployment/worker-build-process.md — Worker binary build process, SSL/TLS configuration, and distribution.
operations/runtime-operations.md — Monitoring, scaling, backups, SLAs, incident response.
operations/security-and-compliance.md — Threat model, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements.
operations/testing.md — Comprehensive testing guide including unit tests, integration tests, and User Acceptance Tests (UAT).
operations/environment.md — Complete reference for all environment variables used throughout the system.
operations/configuration-tuning.md — Parameter tuning guide for simulation stability and evolution dynamics.
operations/checkpointing.md — Checkpointing operations, state restoration, and troubleshooting guide.
operations/distributed-quickstart.md — Step-by-step server/worker smoke test for contributors.

planned-upgrades/auto-upgrade.md — Worker distribution roadmap and packaging-first rollout plan.
planned-upgrades/worker-self-update.md — Staged rollout plan for automated worker updates.

project/working-agreements.md — Team norms, code review expectations, decision-making process.
project/roadmap.md — Near-term milestones, long-term vision, and dependency tracking.
project/change-log.md — Summary of major simulation changes and historical context.
project/references.md — External research papers, datasets, and inspiration sources.

Tip: Keep pages short and link richly to maintain discoverability. Update this home page whenever new sections are added.