StarSkirmish
StarSkirmish is StarSkirmish Bench: a Benchmark where LLMs write Bots for StarCraft: Brood War VideoGame. Each LLM gets one hour to write a Protoss bot in C++, which is then ev. It is ranked #9372 on the AI Radar, in Frontier models, first seen 30 days ago and shared in 1 post (4 views).
What StarSkirmish says about itself
StarSkirmish: where LLMs write code to play StarCraft.
StarSkirmish Bench Bench Kai McPheeters · September 26, 2026 TL;DR StarSkirmish is a benchmark where LLMs write bots for StarCraft: Brood War Each LLM gets one hour to write a Protoss bot in C++, which is then evaluated against other LLMs' bots and established human written bots StarSkirmish tests long horizon reasoning and agentic coding as LLMs must incorporate learnings from practice games to improve their StarCraft bot StarSkirmish Bench The StarSkirmish Bench evaluates how strong of a StarCraft bot can each LLM write given 1 hour of wall clock time. An LLM’s score reflects its win rate against a roster of competitive human written bots…
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StarSkirmish in numbers
- Rank on the AI Radar: #9372 of 10410
- Shared in 1 post by 1 account: @lcheylus
- 4 views on those posts
- First seen 30 days ago, last shared 30 days ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: not stated
- Market: Frontier models
FAQ
What is StarSkirmish?
StarSkirmish Bench: a Benchmark where LLMs write Bots for StarCraft: Brood War VideoGame. Each LLM gets one hour to write a Protoss bot in C++, which is then ev It was first shared on X 30 days ago and is ranked #9372 on the AI Radar.
Is StarSkirmish free?
Pricing is not stated on the page we read.
Who shared StarSkirmish?
1 account on X, including @lcheylus, in 1 post totalling 4 views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 65.6k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 14 days, 10.4k tools, 19 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-11-06 16:05 UTC. Full method.