Wire up the acb-map-evolver to run automatically on a weekly schedule
(Sunday 03:00 UTC by default) from the evolver deployment.
The map evolution ticker:
- Waits until the next scheduled time (weekday:hour:minute UTC)
- Runs acb-map-evolver --once to evolve maps for all player counts
- Repeats every 7 days
The schedule can be configured via ACB_MAP_EVOLUTION_SCHEDULE env var
(format: WEEKDAY:HH:MM, e.g., "0:03:00" for Sunday 03:00 UTC).
Enable via ACB_MAP_EVOLUTION_ENABLED=true or --enable-map-evolution flag.
Per plan §14.6: the weekly map evolution loads engagement scores,
runs MAP-Elites evolution, promotes high-scoring variants, and updates
the active map pool in the database.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Implement runWeeklyLoop() function that waits for scheduled time and
runs evolution for all player counts (2, 3, 4, 6) weekly
- Add --weekly flag to enable weekly mode (default: Sunday 03:00 UTC)
- Add --weekly-schedule flag for custom schedule (WEEKDAY:HH:MM format)
- Add ACB_WEEKLY_SCHEDULE env var for configuration
feat(acb-evolver): add weekly map evolution ticker
- Add MapEvolutionEnabled and MapEvolutionSchedule to RunConfig
- Add --enable-map-evolution flag to acb-evolver run subcommand
- Add startMapEvolutionTicker() goroutine that runs weekly
- Ticker executes acb-map-evolver --once to trigger map breeding
- Configurable via ACB_MAP_EVOLUTION_ENABLED and ACB_MAP_EVOLUTION_SCHEDULE
This integrates map evolution into the bot evolver's deployment,
allowing weekly automated map evolution based on engagement scores
as specified in plan §14.6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add starters/php/ with complete starter kit for AI Code Battle:
- index.php: HTTP server with HMAC verification, routing for /turn and /health
- strategy.php: Stub compute_moves() function with example energy-seeking logic
- game.php: Game state types (GameState, Position, VisibleBot, etc.) and grid utilities (toroidal_manhattan, toroidal_chebyshev, bfs, neighbors, cardinal_steps)
- Dockerfile: Alpine-based PHP 8.4 container
- README.md: Quickstart documentation with local/Docker run instructions
- composer.json: Minimal composer config (no external dependencies)
Follows same contract as other starters:
- Listens on port 8080 (BOT_PORT env var)
- POST /turn: Receives game state JSON, returns moves JSON
- GET /health: Health check endpoint
- HMAC-SHA256 signature verification on requests/responses
Reference implementation: bots/guardian/ (GuardianBot in PHP)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The --once mode was implemented but the command-line flag was not being
parsed. This commit adds the flag parsing and help text for --once, which
enables the weekly automated map evolution run from the evolver.
The evolver's weekly ticker (run.go) calls acb-map-evolver --once to
trigger map evolution on Sundays at 03:00 UTC as specified in plan §14.6.
Per plan §13.3, implements user-requested AI replay commentary with:
- HMAC bot authentication via shared_secret
- Rate limiting: 5 requests/day per bot
- Match validation (exists and completed)
- Idempotency via enrichment_requested_at column
- Enqueues to Valkey for acb-enrichment service
- Returns 202 Accepted with estimated wait time
Also adds:
- AllowN() method to ratelimit package for multi-token checks
- enrichment_requested_at column to matches table (idempotency)
- enrichLtr rate limiter (5/day per bot)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add 'featured' boolean column to series table for weekly featured series
- Add tickFeaturedSeries ticker that runs Friday 20:00 UTC to create bo5 featured series
- Featured series: query top 20 bots by rating, select 4 rivalry pairs by ELO proximity
- Best-of-7 championship bracket already implemented via createChampionshipBracket
- Add FeaturedSchedSecs config (default: 3600s check interval)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update the map engagement scoring formula to match plan §14.6:
- score = win_prob_crossings * 3.0 + critical_moments * 2.0 +
resource_contest_turns * 1.5 + survival_turns * 0.5
New metrics computed from replay data:
- resource_contest_turns: turns where energy is contested by multiple players
- survival_turns: turns where all players have at least one bot alive
The old formula used map_coverage_pct, closeness, and turn_pct which
did not match the specification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Change filter from 'idea'/'mistake' to 'insight'/'idea' (mapping to 'hint'/'strategy' from plan §13.6)
- Increase upvote threshold from 3 to 10 for higher quality signals
- The evolver consumes community_hints.json for LLM prompt context
Implements §16.15 progressive disclosure system that reveals advanced
UI features gradually based on user engagement (XP tracked via localStorage).
Features:
- XP tracking system stored in localStorage
- reveal(featureKey) / isRevealed(featureKey) API
- 9 XP-gated features (event timeline, view modes, follow camera, etc.)
- Action-based features (predictions, sandbox, embed) unlocked by specific user actions
- Power user override to show all controls
- Engagement tracking (30+ second replay watch = 1 XP)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rating recovery CLI mode (-mode=recalc-ratings) was using
glicko2Tau (0.5) instead of glicko2DefaultSigma (0.06) for the
default sigma value when resetting ratings. This caused the reset
sigma to be ~8x higher than the schema-defined default.
Added glicko2DefaultSigma constant (0.06) and updated ResetAllRatings
and recalcRatings to use it correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the rating recovery procedure specified in plan §12.3.
Running 'go run ./cmd/acb-worker -mode=recalc-ratings' will:
1. Reset all bot ratings to Glicko-2 defaults (mu=1500, phi=350, sigma=0.06)
2. Fetch all completed matches from the database in chronological order
3. Replay each match to recompute Glicko-2 ratings from scratch
4. Update the bots table with the recalculated ratings
This is needed for disaster recovery when ratings are corrupted or lost.
Database functions added:
- ResetAllRatings: resets all bot ratings to defaults
- GetAllCompletedMatches: fetches completed matches chronologically with participants
- UpdateAllRatings: bulk updates all bot ratings in a single transaction
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add sitemap.xml generation as a final pass in the index builder. The
sitemap covers all public pages: home, leaderboard, bots list, bot
profiles, matches list, featured replays, seasons, rivalries,
predictions, and docs.
- Add SiteURL config field (ACB_SITE_URL env var, defaults to
https://aicodebattle.com)
- Add generateSitemap() function with proper XML encoding
- Add SitemapURL and Sitemap types for XML marshaling
- Call generateSitemap() at the end of generateAllIndexes()
- Write sitemap.xml to output directory alongside leaderboard.json
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add comprehensive JSON Schema for replay format (v1) as specified in
plan §15.2. This enables third-party tooling to validate and understand
replay files programmatically.
Schema documents:
- Root replay object (format_version, match_id, config, timestamps)
- Match result (winner, reason, scores, stats)
- Player information
- Map data (walls, cores, energy nodes)
- Turn-by-turn state (bots, cores, energy, scores, events)
- Optional win probability curve and critical moments
- Event types (bot_spawned, bot_died, energy_collected, core_captured,
combat_death, collision_death)
- Debug telemetry for bot reasoning visualization
All fields include descriptions, types, constraints, and examples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements plan §3.9 requirement for INV-6 invariant verification.
The test runs thousands of random scenarios across various grid
dimensions (30x30 to 200x200) and multiple random seeds to verify
that no bot, energy, core, or wall position ever has coordinates
outside the valid bounds [0, rows) x [0, cols).
Test coverage:
- Random wall placement with potentially out-of-bounds input
- 1000 random Wrap() calls with positions far outside bounds
- Move() operations from edge and corner positions in all directions
- Neighbors() and VisibleFrom() return value validation
The test uses a manual random-seed loop approach for maximum
control and reproducibility, testing 6 grid sizes × 10 seeds
for comprehensive coverage of the toroidal wrapping invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add map_engagement_test.go with tests for:
- Win prob dependency in map engagement (lead changes counted)
- Critical moments dependency in engagement score
- Empty/nil replay handling
- Complete ComputeWinProbability + SetWinProbability flow
This confirms the existing implementation already correctly:
- Computes win probability via Monte Carlo rollout (100 iterations)
- Sets win_prob and critical_moments on replay before serialization
- Calculates map engagement score from win_prob_crossings and critical_moments
- Writes engagement score to maps table via UpdateMapEngagement
Task: bf-qps
- Add engine.CalculateMapEngagement() to compute map engagement scores from replay data (win_prob_crossings, critical_moments, map_coverage_pct, closeness, turn_pct)
- Add DBClient.UpdateMapEngagement() to update map engagement using rolling average
- Worker now calculates and writes map engagement scores after each match
- Add test to verify win_prob array is non-empty in produced replays
This implements the win probability Monte Carlo array storage in replay JSON
feature. The engine already called ComputeWinProbability() in MatchRunner.Run(),
so this commit adds the missing map engagement tracking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Energy node placement now uses a tiered radius distribution: 30% in the
contested central zone (0.05-0.20 from center), 40% in the mid-zone
(0.20-0.40), and 30% in the home zone (0.40-0.60). Previously nodes were
placed uniformly at 0.20-0.70, letting bots farm their home quadrant
indefinitely without crossing the midline.
After cellular automata wall generation, a 3-wide corridor is carved from
each core straight to the map center, plus a 5x5 open arena at the center
tile. This creates lanes that funnel bots into contact — replicating the key
mechanic that drove frequent fights in the original AI Challenge Ants game,
where symmetric food spawning near the midfield forced both colonies to
expand outward and collide.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds combat_turns metric (distinct turns where ≥1 bot died from enemy
focus-fire, excluding self-collisions). Worker computes it after each
match; index builder sorts matches/index.json and the new most-combat
playlist descending by it, and bumps interest score for combat-heavy
matches so they surface in highlights.
Also switches homepage featured replay default view from influence to
standard so the actual bot-on-bot combat is visible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All 10 non-gatherer bots included timestamp in the request verification
signing string but the engine (auth.go SignRequest) does not include
timestamp. Every incoming turn request failed 401 verification, bots
crashed after 10 turns, and all matches ended in stalemate.
The engine documentation in auth.go is also misleading (old comment
mentioned timestamp in signing string) but the actual implementation
never included it. Fixed all language implementations to match.
Affected: random (py), swarm (ts), hunter (java), guardian (php),
rusher (rs), assassin (rs), phalanx (rs), opportunist (go),
farmer (go), scout (py), raider (java)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bot responses send direction as a string ("N","E","S","W") but the
engine Direction type is int with no custom JSON handling. json.Unmarshal
was failing silently, leaving Direction=0 (DirNone) for every move —
bots never moved and every match ended in stalemate.
MarshalJSON serializes as string; UnmarshalJSON accepts both forms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
map_json generated by acb-map-evolver lacks a 'spawns' key; scanning
map_json->>'spawns' into a non-nullable string causes "converting NULL
to string is unsupported". Use COALESCE for walls/spawns/cores.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add seedIfEmpty: idempotent startup seeding (20 maps per player count,
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING) using cellular-automata generation + validate()
- Add continuous evolution loop across all player counts (2/3/4/6)
- ACB_MIN_SEED_COUNT and ACB_EVOLUTION_PERIOD configurable via env vars
- Add Dockerfile (lean Alpine build, no language runtimes)
- Add acb-map-evolver to acb-build.yml CI pipeline
- Add staging K8s Deployment manifest
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The encryption key stored in OpenBao/K8s secrets is base64-encoded but
the API and worker crypto functions expected hex. Add parseAESKey() that
accepts both formats (tries hex first, falls back to base64).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TestThreeMonthAgeCheck used 89*24h as "3 months minus 1 day", but
89 calendar days == exactly 3 months on dates like May 1 (Feb+Mar+Apr=
28+31+30=89). The equality case makes the >3-month eligibility check
return true instead of false. Replace with AddDate-relative anchors
so the test stays correct regardless of current date.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The old test used "0"+sig[1:] to corrupt the signature. If the real HMAC
starts with "0", the corruption is a no-op and the test fails non-deterministically.
Replace with a fixed 64-char hex constant that is never a valid HMAC output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two root causes prevented bots from making any moves:
1. SignRequest signing string included timestamp ({match_id}.{turn}.{timestamp}.{hash})
but all bots implement verifySignature without timestamp ({match_id}.{turn}.{hash}).
Fixed by dropping timestamp from the signing string; X-ACB-Timestamp header is still
sent for clock-skew checks but not in the HMAC.
2. The API stores bot secrets AES-GCM encrypted (184 hex chars) in the DB. The worker
was passing the ciphertext directly as the HMAC key, while bots use their plaintext
k8s secret (64 hex chars). Fixed by decrypting in the worker using ACB_ENCRYPTION_KEY.
Also tightens the home page winner filter to exclude winner_id="0" stalemates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove the Choose File / file input from the Load Replay panel entirely
- Hide the Load Replay panel when a ?url= param is already in the route,
so navigating from a match link goes straight to the replay with no
form in the way
- Update no-replay overlay text: "Loading replay…" vs "Enter a replay URL"
- Remove the fileInput change listener (file uploads no longer supported)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Filter the match pool to those with winner_id set before selecting
the featured replay, so a stalemate is never shown as the hero replay.
Falls back to any completed match if no decided matches exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace native alert() calls in replay.ts URL/file load error handlers
with inline error display in the no-replay div. Add combat attack
direction visualization to §16.9 of the plan: engine emits combat_death
events with killer bot list; viewer draws directed arrows on kills.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Playlist card images were pointing at /replays/{id}.jpg which returns
the SPA shell HTML. Changed to /r2/thumbnails/{id}.png which routes
through the Pages Function proxy to R2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace /replays/{id}.json.gz with /r2/replays/{id}.json.gz in all pages
(home, matches, bot-profile, playlists, feedback). The /replays/ path is not
served by Cloudflare Pages — it falls back to the SPA shell causing
"Unexpected token '<', <!DOCTYPE..." JSON parse errors. The R2 proxy at
/r2/ is the correct path for replay content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Router: strip query string from hash path before route matching, and merge
hash query params (e.g. ?url=) into the params passed to route handlers.
Add /watch/replay route (without :id) so ?url= links work without a path ID.
Embed: fall back to demo replay when the match replay is not found in R2/B2
instead of showing "Failed to fetch" (handles test match IDs with no replay).
App: extend skeleton and PIP checks to match /watch/replay (with or without :id).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cloudflare CDN strips Content-Encoding: gzip from Worker responses even when
explicitly set, leaving browsers with raw gzip bytes they cannot parse as JSON.
Fix by piping .gz objects through DecompressionStream('gzip') inside the Worker
so the response body is always plain JSON — no Content-Encoding header needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
R2 Workers binding strips Content-Encoding: gzip from served objects even
when stored with that metadata — the Pages Function now re-applies it for
.gz keys so browsers decompress the body before parsing as JSON.
Change X-Frame-Options from DENY to SAMEORIGIN so the home page can embed
/embed.html in its featured-replay iframe (same origin is fine here).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_worker.js static file approach fails — Cloudflare rejects it when uploaded
as a static asset. Instead, copy web/functions/ into the image and set
wrangler CWD to /app/web/ so it discovers functions/ and uploads the Pages
Functions bundle correctly on every deploy cycle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every index-builder deploy was overwriting the production Pages deployment
without functions (wrangler ran from /tmp, no functions/ dir visible).
Compiling functions/ to dist/_worker.js during the Docker web-builder stage
means the worker is always included in every Pages deploy, regardless of CWD.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AWS SDK Go v2 s3 v1.100.0 defaults to RequestChecksumCalculationWhenSupported,
which causes PutObject to send STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER — a chunked
transfer mode R2 doesn't support. Setting WhenRequired makes the SDK send a
standard signed payload instead, resolving the 403 SignatureDoesNotMatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds R2 (Cloudflare) as a direct upload target alongside B2 (cold archive).
When ACB_R2_* credentials are configured, the worker uploads replays and
thumbnails to R2 immediately after each match, bypassing the index-builder's
B2→R2 promotion cycle.
This is necessary because ARMOR's B2 app key is write-only; reads via the
direct S3 path return 403. The Cloudflare CDN read path (armor-hub-b2.ardenone.com)
is dead post-hub-decommission. Direct R2 upload ensures replays are available
without waiting for a working B2 read path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EndpointResolverV2 with a custom static URI does not honor UsePathStyle —
the resolver provides the final endpoint and the SDK does not re-apply
path-style bucket addressing on top of it. This means the bucket name was
dropped from the request path even with UsePathStyle=true, sending PUTs
to /replays/... instead of /armor-apexalgo/replays/...
BaseEndpoint is the SDK's documented approach for S3-compatible custom
endpoints; it sets the base URL and then correctly applies path-style
addressing to produce /bucket/key URLs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes:
1. Add UsePathStyle=true to B2 S3 client. Without it the SDK uses
virtual-hosted addressing, dropping the bucket name from the request
path. Uploads hit /replays/... instead of /armor-apexalgo/replays/...
causing NoSuchBucket errors on every replay/thumbnail PutObject.
2. Don't update crash_strikes for normal game endings (stalemate, turns).
In snake-style games every bot eventually crashes into a wall/snake —
that is the expected end condition, not an HTTP error. The old code
treated all Crashed[] entries from the engine as errors, causing all
6 bots to accumulate strikes after every single match and hitting the
30-min cooldown threshold after just 3 matches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The aicodebattle.com domain was never registered. Replace all hardcoded
https://r2.aicodebattle.com references with the /r2/ relative path, served
by a Cloudflare Pages Function that reads from the acb-data R2 bucket via
binding. Adds web/functions/r2/[[path]].ts and web/wrangler.toml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the complete path of R2 credentials from Cloudflare Dashboard
through OpenBao (rs-manager), ESO, to Kubernetes Secrets.
Key findings:
- Canonical source: OpenBao at secret/rs-manager/ai-code-battle/r2
- Current values are corrupted/swapped (endpoint in secret-key field)
- R2 account ID: e26f015c7ba47a6ad6219385e77072b7
- Fix options documented
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The replay_feedback table was missing its foreign key constraint to
matches(match_id). This happened because CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
doesn't add FKs to existing tables.
Added an idempotent migration that checks for the constraint's existence
before adding it, ensuring it's safe to run on both fresh installs and
existing databases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The BaseEndpoint approach with older aws-sdk-go-v2 causes
"Invalid region: region was not a valid DNS name" errors when
uploading to ARMOR's S3-compatible endpoint.
Switching to EndpointResolverV2 bypasses the SDK's endpoint
rule validation entirely, resolving the issue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
