arena
Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it.
Skill by iancleary
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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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Use cases: productivity
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
- Tools
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- Secrets
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- Install scripts
- None found
Network hosts it talks to 1
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Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/arena
What's inside
- Skill name
arena- Description
- Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it. Use for /arena, 'arena this', 'throw it in the arena', or when one attempt at a non-trivial artifact would lock in the wrong shape.
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Instructions
- 70 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (4)
- LICENSE
- SKILL.md
- openai.yaml · agents/
- pstack-runtime.md · references/
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Signals
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 9
- Last commit (this folder)
- Oct 6, 2026 (25 days ago)
- Last release
- Oct 7, 2026 (24 days ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Repository
- github.com/iancleary/skills
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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arena skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/iancleary-arena (last updated 2026-10-24)