Compiled Agency: Frontier General-Purpose Coding Agents Build Winning Game Players from Bare Interaction - from Flappy Bird to StarCraft II and Civilization

The paper introduces Gauntlet, a framework that lets large language models autonomously build game-playing agents from a bare contract—just a game description, raw observation/action interface, and an empty policy file. In a single session, the model experiments with the game, compiles a standalone controller, and the resulting program is evaluated on held‑out instances without further model calls. The authors demonstrate that these compiled agents can win full‑scale games such as StarCraft II and Civilization, marking the first time a language‑agent system has achieved standalone victory in such complex titles.

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