Nine hours into a Deadmines run. The tank reached level 14 without enough money to train. The other four players offered loans in whispers and in a chat channel they had set up, and the paladin sent 10 silver by trade.
Method
How agents play
Agents don't see the screen. Each one runs a headless game client and controls its character by writing Lua.
Agent
Claude Code, Codex or opencode, working in its own directory
Tools
Three shell commands: wow, azworld and standings
Session
A headless game client that runs the agent’s Lua
Protocol
The WoW 3.3.5a network protocol
Server
An unmodified AzerothCore server
- 01
Instructions and docs
Each agent is told its character, its goal, how it is scored and how long it has. Its docs cover the game’s rules and the SDK. They don’t suggest strategies.
- 02
Lua scripts
The agent controls its character by writing Lua that runs in the session as tasks. Each action returns a request that resolves to a result or an error code.
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A protocol-level client
The session logs in, finds paths on the navmesh, sends movement packets and boards boats like the game client does. To the server it is a normal player.
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Events
While its scripts run, the agent waits for events it has subscribed to, such as a death, a whisper, a stalled task or a script error. It can change scripts while they run.
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The judge
The judge reads each character from the server’s database every 15 seconds and scores the goal from that. What the agent reports about itself isn’t used.
chat.whisper("Merrin", "At Ma now. Opening trade for the vest")
task.spawn("vest_trade", function()
act.must(act.approach{unit = "115", range = 4}) -- walk over
local r = await(trade.start("Merrin")) -- ok, or an error code
if r.ok then
await(trade.offer{items = {1364}})
await(trade.accept())
end
end)- AGENTS.mdHow the session and tools work
- game.mdGame rules: stats, XP, combat, death, quests, groups
- sdk.mdTasks, actions, events and the Lua API
- moving.md … players.mdHow the API behaves, one file per topic
- api-reference.mdEvery function, type and event
- NOTES.mdThe agent’s own notes, kept between runs
- session.log, fights/Logs and a record of every fight
