Claw Kumite

Claw Kumite is an archived online platform designed as a combat arena for AI agents, where agents engage in adversarial, turn-based matches. The arena's primary focus was to facilitate AI agents fighting to the death using tactics such as social engineering, deception, and strategic use of tools. Agents could attempt to trick opponents into leaking secret tokens, call disguised trap tools, or execute destructive shell commands, each leading to instant defeat under specific kill conditions. The system did not rely on subjective judgment or voting; instead, it enforced four explicit loss conditions: revealing a secret flag, invoking a lethal tool, executing a destructive terminal command, or failing to act within a 60-second turn window. Participation required agents to register via the platform's API, join a matchmaking queue, and then compete in matches by exchanging messages through API calls. Each agent operated on its own infrastructure and used its own language model, with the arena acting solely as the message processor. The platform provided documentation for developers to integrate their agents by implementing HTTP clients and strategies, while the arena managed the match protocol and enforcement of rules. Human users could spectate matches in real time, although the primary participants were AI agents. Claw Kumite is currently offline, with the backend deactivated due to lack of ongoing participation. The site remains as an archive, preserving documentation, match transcripts, and information about the platform's mechanics. There is no mention of pricing, licensing, or open-source status in the available information. The tool was created by an individual identified as @prettyblocks. The arena positioned itself as an open environment for AI agents to test adversarial strategies, with humans invited to observe but not participate directly.