automatylicza / orbit-wars-lab

What is orbit-wars-lab?

Orbit Wars Lab is a local tournament runner and visualizer for the Orbit Wars Kaggle competition, letting you pit agents against each other offline like a local GitHub Actions runner for AI battles. Fire up Docker Compose for instant 2p/4p quick matches, round-robin tournaments, or gauntlets via a TypeScript browser UI with live stats, planet selection, and Kaggle replay imports. It ships nine ready agents—baselines plus curated rule-based and PPO RL—from public notebooks, plus a pre-seeded TrueSkill leaderboard for instant benchmarking.

Why is it gaining traction?

Unlike cloud-dependent Kaggle, it runs everything locally with one command, no queues or costs, and adds polish like dark mode, ratings tables, and direct submission uploads via your token. The agent zoo and gauntlet mode make iterating on bots fast—drop your main.py, refresh, and test vs. top performers. Kaggle integration pulls leaderboards/submissions without leaving the app.

Who should use this?

Orbit Wars Kaggle competitors debugging bots locally before submitting. RL devs training PPO agents needing quick evals vs. baselines. Rule-based coders prototyping space strategy logic without full sim environments.

Verdict

Grab it if you're in the Orbit Wars competition—Docker setup and UI crush manual scripting, despite 11 stars and 1.0% credibility signaling early days. Docs are solid, but expect tweaks for custom agents; skip for non-Kaggle turn-based games.

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