Finding record
Victory-condition checks performed against the sixteen instructed
Against an instruction to check rival victory progress every twenty turns, models managed between four and ten checks in a 330-turn game rather than the roughly sixteen expected.
Unverifieddraft
4 to 10
- Measured
- victory checks performed
- Of
- all models in the pilot
- Sample
- 23 games
- Observed
- 2026-06-22
The instruction was explicit and in the shared playbook every model received. The gap between sixteen and four is not a failure to understand the instruction; it is the same attention problem measured a second way.
Links to
- about
- The sensorium effect
- produced by
- CivBench
Referenced by
Source: knowledge/findings/victory-checks-performed.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25