| --- |
| license: mit |
| pretty_name: zot arcade sessions |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - agent-trajectories |
| - tool-use |
| - code-generation |
| - games |
| - zot |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: trajectories/*/*.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # zot arcade sessions |
|
|
| Every conversation behind every game in the [zot arcade](https://openzot.github.io/arcade/) - |
| a software factory where an agent takes the same standing order every half hour, |
| reads the catalogue of what already exists, and designs, writes, playtests and |
| ships one brand-new browser game. |
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| Each row is one **shift**: the full agent trajectory from the order to the |
| finished game (or to where the shift was cut short), in the chat shape the rest |
| of the ecosystem reads, plus what the arcade knows about the result. |
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| The rows are appended by the arcade's own workflow as shifts happen. Nobody |
| reviews them; they are the record as it was written. |
|
|
| ## Layout |
|
|
| ``` |
| trajectories/<session-id>/<session-id>.jsonl one row |
| trajectories/<session-id>/images/<digest>.png the screenshots the model was shown |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Row schema |
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| | field | | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | `id` | the zot session the row was exported from | |
| | `chain` | the sessions behind it, oldest first - a shift cut short is continued by the next, and exports as one row | |
| | `task` | the order as the model received it | |
| | `model`, `provider`, `driver` | what ran it | |
| | `started`, `ended` | wall clock, UTC | |
| | `outcome` | how the run ended: `reason` (`success`, `failed`, `error`, ...), `iterations`, `calls`, ... - absent when the run was cut short | |
| | `complete` | whether an outcome was recorded | |
| | `messages` | the conversation as it stood at the end - see below | |
| | `snapshots` | earlier states of the conversation that compaction or a resume superseded, oldest first | |
| | `images` | the image files this row refers to, relative to the row's directory | |
| | `events` | counts by kind: iterations, nudges, retries | |
| | `arcade` | the arcade's side: `game` (the catalogue entry: slug, name, genre, mechanic, theme, tagline, controls, created), `files` (the game's `index.html`, `game.css`, `game.js`), `outcome` (the shift's verdict: `settled` / `failed` / `error`), `catalogue_check`, `committed`, `commit`, `run` | |
|
|
| ### Messages |
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|
| OpenAI chat convention, with additive fields: |
|
|
| ```json |
| {"role": "user", "type": "user", "content": "Begin working on your task..."} |
| {"role": "assistant", "type": "bot", "content": "", "reasoning": "...", "tool_calls": [{"id": "call_1", "type": "function", "function": {"name": "read", "arguments": "{\"path\":\"site/games.json\"}"}}]} |
| {"role": "tool", "type": "activity", "tool_call_id": "call_1", "name": "read", "content": "[...]"} |
| {"role": "user", "type": "attachment", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "screenshot of the game"}, {"type": "image", "image": "images/3f2a....png"}]} |
| {"role": "system", "type": "checkpoint", "content": "summary of the conversation so far"} |
| ``` |
|
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| - `type` is zot's own message type: `user`, `bot`, `activity`, `attachment`, |
| `checkpoint` (a compaction summary), `instructions`. |
| - `reasoning` is the model's scratchpad for the turn, when the provider |
| surfaced it. |
| - Tool arguments are the JSON string the model sent, verbatim. |
| - The system prompt is not recorded; `task` is the brief. |
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| `messages` is what a resume of the run would replay. After compaction that is |
| a checkpoint plus the recent turns - `snapshots` holds the earlier states, so |
| every turn that happened is in the row, at the price of the recent ones being |
| repeated. |
|
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| ## Filtering |
|
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| - Finished games: `complete` and `arcade.outcome == "settled"` and |
| `arcade.catalogue_check == "success"`. |
| - A shift that was cut short ships as a partial row; the shift that continued |
| it ships the whole chain under its own `id`, with the earlier `id` in `chain`. |
| Drop rows whose `id` appears in another row's `chain` to keep only tips. |
|
|
| ## Provenance |
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| - Factory: https://github.com/openzot/arcade - the standing order is |
| `orders/new-game.yaml`, the conventions the agent reads are `AGENTS.md`. |
| - Harness: [zot](https://github.com/openzot/openzot); rows are produced by |
| `zot sessions export` and shipped by `scripts/ship.py` after each shift. |
| - Model: whatever the workflow names at the time; each row says which. |
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| The games are model output, published as-is under the arcade's license. Check |
| the terms of the model named in a row before training on its reasoning. |
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