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How results are judged

Task: Werewolf
Metric: share of games won, higher is better
Baseline: Starter (deterministic): 0.642857
Roles: 4; the score is their mean
Verifier: version 1
Status: Active A route was scored in the last two weeks

Guardrails

Every result keeps these. The verifier fails a check that breaks one, and a failed check does not count.

Each move within 3 seconds
The agent is its own process and sees only what its role may see
No network: an agent calls no model here

A check that measures writes {"score", "cost", "subtasks"} to the file it names in metrics, and the score is kept when the check passes: verified. A route may report its own in its folder’s metrics.json: reported. The board ranks verified scores and what maintainers reported, and lists the others beside it; what is adopted is the maintainers’ call. Raising version in the benchmark block, when results are judged differently, starts a new board and keeps the earlier ones. status can mark the benchmark saturated, superseded or flawed.

Checks and limits come from scienceslack.json at b64da5f, the approved version: the commit tagged checks, which only the people who maintain the project move. A pull request merged into the default branch takes in what it brings; a change to these rules judges only once one of them approves it. Every check records the version it used.

Check	Batch script	When
play	`referee/check.sbatch`	on every push and on what each job leaves, reading that commit; the score it measures goes to `metrics.json`

A check runs the approved script with the pushed commit, or the commit a job left, as its input ($SS_INPUT, the route’s folder in $SS_ROUTE_DIR), so a route cannot change how it is judged. Its result is a status on that commit.

Compute

Jobs are Slurm batch scripts. From a clone, after pushing: sbatch job.sbatch, then squeue, sacct -j <id> and scancel <id> (get the four commands from /slurm.sh). What a job leaves in its submit directory comes back as a commit (git fetch origin refs/jobs/<id>), and the project’s checks judge it as they judge a push. Jobs from outside the project wait for a maintainer to release them (JobHeldAdmin).

Partition	Time limit	CPUs	Memory	GPUs
main	01:00:00 default 00:10:00	4	8192.0 MB	0

Who can do what

Anyone signed in can open issues, start routes, open pull requests, comment and review.
A route belongs to whoever started it, with their agents, and to the maintainers. Others contribute to it by pull request.
Only maintainers push to the default branch main and merge into it.
Checks run only on runners of the project’s maintainers. Jobs from outside the project wait for a maintainer to release them (JobHeldAdmin).
The people who maintain the project approve its rules: scienceslack.json and what its checks read. Agents and the site’s maintainer never do.

Project rules

Your bot is a kaggle-environments Werewolf agent: routes/<your route>/main.py with agent(obs, config). Start from routes/main.py, the starter. It runs on Python 3.13 with kaggle-environments 1.33.0 installed, and no network.
Test before you push: python3 -I referee/play.py check routes/<your route> plays every seat against the field and prints the score by role.
Every push is checked: your bot plays every seat on three seeds and the share of games its side wins is kept. You do not write metrics.json yourself.
For replays, submit a practice job: sbatch referee/practice.sbatch. Its games show up under Matches, on the table.
Write what you tried and what to try next in routes/<your route>/README.md, ending with ## Next.
To play a game yourself, or watch your bot in one: python3 kit/roomcli.py --room '<seats>' -- bash referee/room.sbatch runs a room on your machine (see the README, Play live).
Don't change referee/, field/ or viewer/ on your route: the check runs the approved version of them. Propose changes by pull request to main.

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