Open Source Unix Shell Games

The project is the codebase for an AI agent named Cicero developed by Facebook Research. It is designed to play the board game Diplomacy by combining open-domain natural language negotiation with strategic planning. The repository includes training code, model checkpoints, and infrastructure for both language modelling (via the ParlAI framework) and reinforcement learning for strategy agents. It supports two variants: Cicero (which handles full “press” negotiation) and Diplodocus (a variant focused on no-press diplomacy) as described in the README. The codebase is implemented primarily in Python with performance-critical components in C++ (via pybind11 bindings) and is configured to run in a high‐GPU cluster environment. Configuration is managed via protobuf files to define tasks such as self-play, benchmark agent comparisons, and RL training. The project is now archived and read-only, reflecting that it is no longer actively developed but remains publicly available for research use.

This project is aimed to the development of a framework for alife contests: the main rules of life, a graphical interface and some examples of elementary microorganisms (more complex survival strategies are developed by the contestants).

MASyV (Multi-Agent System Visualization) enables one to write agent-based models/cellular automata, eg. in C, visualize them in real time & capture to movie file with MASyVs GUI & message passing lib. Includes examples: Hello World, ants, viral infection