self-play
Run a clean-room self-play search over a problem space you have not solved yet — an AlphaGo-shaped loop over text where isolated sub-agent players (a blind…
Skill by lilCnid
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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: design, agent-building
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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~/.claude/skills/self-play
What's inside
- Skill name
self-play- Description
- Run a clean-room self-play search over a problem space you have not solved yet — an AlphaGo-shaped loop over text where isolated sub-agent players (a blind gatherer, an adversary, a blind evaluator, a blind judge) probe a candidate design and each iteration picks the next variable to vary. Isolation is what makes the output evidence: each player is blind to the one thing that would let it serve the builder's wish, so your reasoning, intent and stake cannot leak into the evidence or the scoring. Use when "does this actually work / discriminate / hold up?" is open and your own read is not trustworthy evidence — a rubric, admission gate, classifier, router, retrieval strategy, prompt template, judge, summarizer, or agent policy. Triggers include "explore this design space", "red-team this design", "does this rubric hold", "clean-room eval", "validate this without fooling myself." Do NOT use for a deterministic feature directly checkable without a clean room, or when the ceremony costs more than the answer.
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Instructions
- 321 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (11)
- LICENSE.md
- SKILL.md
- COMPLEXITY_CONVOCATION_VALIDATION.md · references/
- DOUBTS_WORKSPACE.md · references/
- PRIMITIVE_ENCODING_AUDIT.md · references/
- README.md · references/
- discipline-cases.md · references/
- earth_figure_factbase.md · references/
- ground-block-failure.md · references/
- measurement-and-reporting.md · references/
- measurement-bounds.md · references/
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Signals
- Stars
- 4
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- Last commit (this folder)
- Sep 4, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last release
- Aug 6, 2026 (2 months ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Repository
- github.com/lilCnid/dovetail
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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self-play skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/lilcnid-self-play (last updated 2026-10-24)