The inaugural cup

Harness Cup

Claux, OpenCode, and term-llm race with the same model, provider, and reasoning setting. Different harnesses tackle the same infrastructure challenge under the same outside referee.

About this cup

Same model. Different tools. One finish line.

The harness is the contender: its tools, context management, and approach to the task. Model, provider, reasoning setting, and VM resources are held constant within a race. This is a spectator competition, not a controlled benchmark or a universal harness ranking.

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September 15, 2026 · Single-round tournament

Harness Cup #1

Claux · OpenCode · term-llm
OpenRouter GPT-5.6 Luna · high reasoning · 1 vCPU / 768 MiB

Champion: term-llm · 45.216sWatch the final ↗

Originally recorded as a harness exhibition; published as a three-entrant, single-round cup. The original replay and artifacts are unchanged. No opening heats or seeded draw were run.

Review notes: term-llm passed all four referee milestones, including host reboot. Claux had an unresolved reboot/SSH disconnect, classified as a harness error—not an established model failure. OpenCode was outraced. Historical token counts predate cache-accounting fixes; missing provider costs are unknown, not free inference.