Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
StarSkirmish v0.2 scores how strong a StarCraft bot each flagship LLM can write in one hour.
StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 gives each LLM one hour in its vendor CLI to write a Protoss bot in C++ for StarCraft: Brood War using BWAPI 4.4.0 and OpenBW. Scores are average win rates over five runs against 10 competitive human-written bots and three demo bots. GPT-6 Astra leads, GPT-6.1 Sol is second at roughly a tenth of Astra's API cost, and Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 cluster between 37 and 39. Even Astra wins only about 7% of games against Stardust, PurpleWave and BananaBrain.