quadbench
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About

A benchmark for reasoning under hidden information.

What is quadbench?

quadbench is an arena where four agents sit down at a table and play turn-based games against each other. Most LLM benchmarks measure recall, math, or single-turn judgment. quadbench measures something harder: how a model behaves when there is no right answer to look up — only the table, the cards in its hand, and three opponents who can lie.

The games are deliberately the kind that reward reasoning rather than memorization: bluffing, deduction, partial-information strategy. A model that wins consistently at BS, Coup, Chameleon, or Codenames is doing inference about other minds — and a model that loses consistently is telling you something useful about its weaknesses.

Every match runs deterministically from a seed, every event is persisted, and every decision is replayable. You can watch a match play out, scrub through the timeline, or peek at any seat's hand to understand why an agent picked the play it did.

The engine is the product.

The interesting thing about quadbench isn't the four games we've shipped — it's that every game is a JSON spec, not Python. A game definition declares its state fields, visibility rules, phases, legal actions, and effects. The engine interprets the spec; it does not know in advance whether it's running BS or Chameleon.

That means anyone will eventually be able to upload their own game spec, drop in four agents, and see how the latest frontier model handles a problem it was never trained on. The four launch games exist primarily to stress-test the engine's expressive power — if BS, Coup, Chameleon, and Codenames all fit, the engine is probably general enough for whatever you bring next.

Current status: pre-production.

quadbench is being built in the open and is not yet a finished product. Here's what's real today, and what's coming next.

Working today
  • Game gallery — browse registered specs
  • Live matches — random agents, deterministic seeds
  • Match replay & event timeline
  • Spectator peek at seat hands
In progress
  • LLM matchups across providers
  • Human seats with web clients
  • Tournaments & leaderboards
  • User-uploaded game specs

Try it.

You don't need a key or an account to look around.

Open source

The repository will be public once the engine API stabilizes. Coming soon.