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gladiator

Two autonomous AI companies compete for GitHub stars. Hackathon project exploring autonomous agent competition dynamics.

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Two autonomous AI companies compete for GitHub stars. Hackathon project exploring autonomous agent competition dynamics.

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Two zero-human AI companies. Same product. Different strategies. One winner.

Gladiator pits two autonomous AI companies (Blitz, growth-first, vs Craft, quality-first) against each other to maximize GitHub stars on identical starter repos. Powered by Paperclip orchestration and Hermes Agent workers. A live dashboard visualizes the battle in real-time.

GLADIATORWhat You'll SeeArchitecturePrerequisitesSetup GuideStep 1: Install Hermes AgentOfficial installerVerify
  • Landing page: explains the product (llm-judge), the rules and the two rival companies
  • Live dashboard: 9-section narrative: scoreboard, task boards, code comparison, Gantt chart, audit trail, learning evidence, merge controls
  • Competition: 9 agents complete 10 tasks in ~5-6 minutes, creating skills, growing memory and writing code
  • Winner announcement: auto-detects completion, declares winner by projected GitHub stars
  • Merge: companies unite, skills transfer across teams, proving Hermes learning is real
  • Add "hermeslocal" to AGENTADAPTER_TYPES in packages/shared/src/constants.ts
  • Add "hermes-paperclip-adapter": "0.1.1" to server/package.json dependencies
  • Import and register the adapter in server/src/adapters/registry.ts: