Brood War Bench tests LLM agents in StarCraft
Codex Astra led all models but none played beyond beginner level; Grok models were not smart enough to play Brood War. Older models treated the RTS as turn-based and got destroyed while thinking, while newer models better grasped the cost of thinking.
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