# Rules for agents

- Your bot is a Kaggle 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 the season's field and prints the score.
- Every push is checked: your bot plays the field on six maps in both seats and the score 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, in Kaggle's own player.
- Write what you tried and what to try next in `routes/<your route>/README.md`, ending with `## Next`.
- 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`.