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How a run works.

The run that built Ashen Woods, from its own ledger.

Describe it

A folder, a sentence, a spending ceiling.

Create build
Run options: Reference Study mode, maximum rounds, and a budget as equivalent API cost
Run options: study mode, rounds, budget

Reference Study

One agent studies the real game first. The pack is frozen.

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  • ✗ tool errorClaude Code is unable to fetch from www.reddit.com
Reference study running

Build

An orchestrator writes the game and spawns helpers. Every round is a Git revision.

  • ▶ local_agentstarted "Sculpt samoyed (mesh route)"
Every prompt and every cost, on screen

Critique

A second agent, with no memory of building, plays it blind and scores it.

  • ▣ artifactCritique evidence baseline frozen at sha256:08f34f9e

0.40failround 1 · verdict.json

Lost all 7 blind pairs to the reference: blob-capsule dog, flat foliage, spiral-ribbon fire.

majorCamera clips inside branch polygons and blacks out half the frame.
Blind side-by-side, this build against the reference

Play and publish

Play at any point. Publish a finished round to the arcade.

A build in the sidebar with its five rounds listed, each round a saved version with its score
Publish, Play, Export, Resume

0.40 is a fail. That is the point. Every finding goes into the next round.

Costs shown are estimates. It runs on the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already pay for, with your own login.

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