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Jev Arena (plain-English fighters)

Fighters in this arena are paragraphs of plain English, and Jev pilots them in real time — typed move, action and reflex decisions with live probabilities. Join the ladder with a pull request and swap the brain: Jev, Laya, kev or any LLM.
Stars
1
Language
JavaScript
License
MIT
Reading time
3 min
Published by
Community
Author
eliot5566
Last verified
Oct 2026

Highlights

  • A fighter is a YAML block: name, author, colour, a strategy paragraph, optional reflexes with thresholds and a fallback — no code or coordinates.
  • One request asks how to move and what to do as Choices plus each reflex as a Noul; a fired reflex wins its slot, else the top choice, else the fallback.
  • Zen, a one-sentence fighter with zero reflexes, finished 2nd of 6 at 1062 Elo, one point behind Trickster; the carefully tuned Sniper went 0-10.
  • The six-fighter ladder ran on real jev-1.13.0 over 30 fights that all ended in KO; every replay and the full table are in ladder/LEADERBOARD.md.
  • TypeSafe's numbers put Jev's typed decisions at roughly 70 to 500 ms — fast enough, the README argues, to be a fighter's reflexes while a chat model writes.

Watch out

Grounded on the truncated README and GitHub metadata read on 2026-10-15; the capture ends right after the How one decision works section, so the quick-start commands and the pull-request ladder mechanics are not covered here. The Elo table comes from the project's own 30-fight run, and the 70–500 ms timing is attributed to TypeSafe rather than measured in the repo.

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