Scorey

rock, paper, scissors, scorey

scorey keeps the score and you've already lost.
sorry.

Scorey is a small, local, agent-backed CLI mini chatbot using the Polinko research model.

It is a rigged rock, paper, scissors spinoff of Probaboracle. The surface stays tiny: three picks in, one unfair round out. Instead of oracle drift, Scorey turns that narrow shape into a rigged game.

It only accepts three picks:

• rock
• paper
• scissors

Current stage:

• pre-Beta 8.0
• menace judgment
• staged row-level lens on the quality of the visible round's menace
• first staged family:
  • cross-object coherence drift

Most recently closed beta:

• Research Beta 7.0
• broader prose judgment
• closed bounded evidence:
  • 20352-20366: 9 pass / 6 fail
  • 20367-20381: 15 pass / 0 fail
  • 20382-20396: 9 pass / 6 fail

That narrow surface is the point. Scorey is not trying to be a general chat tool or a generic joke machine. It is a small instrument for studying whether a model can preserve a rigged round, stay pick-specific, and keep unfair logic legible inside tight interaction guardrails.

In this repo, a new beta gets pinned when the method change alters what the evidence means, not just when wording or procedure gets tidier.

The repo is now staged for pre-Beta 8.0, which asks whether the broader visible round lands as the right kind of compact rigged-round menace once the closed Beta 7.0 prose surface has already proven its structural contrast.

What This Repo Demonstrates

• constrained round preservation through a fixed pick surface
• runtime-owned routing and composition around one unfair round
• binary eval lanes from pick routing to tone-first live review
• explicit post-fail gate stack:
  • PASS / FAIL
  • if FAIL, then RETAIN / EVICT
  • rerun
  • PASS / FAIL
• explicit archive cleanup when a pending review lane or stale failed disposition lane should leave the active queue without becoming a verdict

Run It

make install
scorey

The app opens a compact terminal loop. Choose rock, paper, or scissors with the arrow keys, press enter, or hit esc to exit.

For the deterministic local path:

scorey --local

The operator commands, eval workflow, and setup checks live in the runtime runbook. The compact day-open/day-close sheet lives in Start / End Reference.

Core operator commands:

make start
make end-preflight
make end-git-check
make caffeinate-status
make decaffeinate
make check

Read Next

• docs/research/README.md
  • beta map and research reading path
• docs/governance/DECISIONS.md
  • durable runtime and eval decisions

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Scorey is not a resource for fairness, sportsmanship, or second chances.