Share of agent actions spent checking the whole board
The essay reports: stepping back to assess the overall position accounts for only one to two per cent of what an agent does.
FindingSources & confidence: Limited evidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Compared the reported whole-board checks comprising roughly 1–2% of agent actions with the local essay and available analysis/code; no reproduction.
- Local essay: i-gave-an-ai-a-civilization
Local content/posts/i-gave-an-ai-a-civilization.mdx around line 227: whole-board checks comprising roughly 1–2% of agent actions. The canonical URL identifies the essay; the checked artifact was the local file.
- civ6-mcp: cross-game analysis
Local file checked: qualitative analysis of early games; does not reproduce the seven published aggregate measurements.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The numeric result is a transcription of the author’s report, not independently verified experimental evidence.
- The total action denominator, aggregation rule and classification rubric are missing.
- No games or aggregate analysis were rerun.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
1 to 2%
- Measured
- whole board check share
- Of
- all models in the pilot
- Sample
- not recorded
- Observed
- 2026-06-22
The essay reports 1–2% of agent actions as whole-board assessment. The denominator would therefore be eligible actions, not the 23 games in the pilot. The review did not recover the action classifications or establish whether the range describes models, games or another grouping.
The publication date is retained in observed because no experiment date is documented here. Confidence concerns this reported result; the underlying experiment has not been independently verified.
In the essays
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
Read the essay
Projects
- CivBench
Produced by
Ideas
- The sensorium effect
Subject
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/findings/whole-board-checks-share.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25