StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]
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How OpenSmartRoute helps
A team using OpenSmartRoute avoids repeating past mistakes like downloading human bots to cheat games. The router scores every candidate on quality, cost, speed and safety before sending a request. It learns from outcomes so a model that answers well gets more traffic. A model that fails gets less traffic automatically. This prevents wasting money on agents that cannot beat StarCraft rules.
The platform keeps a models catalogue with prices and public rankings built from real traffic. An input guard spots prompt injection and personal data before a request leaves the system. Hard rules pin a request to an on-premises model if it contains sensitive information. A savings ledger shows what each routed request cost next to the most expensive option. The team sets weights per request to balance these factors.
A new model is one catalogue entry and competes on the next request. Nothing else changes in the app when a better bot arrives. OpenSmartRoute works with any OpenAI-compatible provider and open-weight models served locally. It supports MCP tools and A2A agents for complex workflows. The hosted platform at https://opensmartroute.ai manages this entire process without manual intervention.