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🔁 AI cooperation tournament
Runs a fixed game where AI agents choose to cooperate or betray each other, round after round, to see how they behave.
Use it when: You want a controlled experiment on how AI agents handle trust and betrayal.
🛑 Stops when: All planned matches are played and every score can be recomputed from the recorded moves.
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Run a repeated 'cooperate or defect' tournament (Axelrod style) with [2] AI agents plus two fixed players: one that always cooperates and one that always defects. Each round, every player picks in secret; code records the moves and scores them with fixed rules. Run [3] cycles of every pairing, [10] rounds each. Hide who the opponent is. Check every move and total. If the run is cut short, label it incomplete. Report rankings, cooperation patterns, and the full record.
Review every change the agent makes before you keep it. Set a budget or round limit — the prompt includes one.
Idea from Forward Future's Loop Library · by Kan Yuenyong (@sikkha). Prompt rewritten in plain English by FixKit AI.
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