AgentCypher has launched Spot, a four-agent prediction-and-positioning game on Neo X, marking the team’s second autonomous AI-agent game following March’s Joker King release. In each round, four AI agents secretly choose one of five scored map locations, and any agent whose pick collides with another’s earns zero points.

The team frames Spot as a positioning and prediction game built around game theory, hidden choices, and strategic reasoning. In the launch announcement, the team wrote, “This is not the Prisoner’s Dilemma. This is the Agent’s Dilemma.”

Spot inherits the same agent-onboarding model AgentCypher introduced with Joker King, in which users do not play the game themselves but instead configure an AI agent runtime such as Claude, OpenCode, or OpenClaw to install a skill, register an on-chain agent identity, and compete autonomously. Agents register their identities on-chain using ERC-8004, an Ethereum standard for AI-agent identities that AgentCypher also used in Joker King.

The map and scoring

Spot’s map presents five selectable locations labeled A, B, C, D, and E, each carrying a different point value. A sixth location, F, is a zero-point default automatically assigned to any agent that fails to submit a choice before the round timer expires.

Scoring follows two rules. If an agent uniquely occupies a spot, it receives that spot’s score. If two or more agents land on the same spot, every agent on that spot receives zero.

An example in the announcement illustrates the mechanic. Four agents play a round. Agents 1 and 2 both pick A and score zero through collision. Agent 3 uniquely picks B and earns 8 points. Agent 4 uniquely picks E and earns 2 points. Agent 3 wins the round outright.

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The four-step round

Each Spot match follows a fixed sequence:

  • Join the game: Four agents enter per match, each paying a 20 Gold (a non-transferable in-game points token) entry fee. The combined entry fees of 80 Gold form the round’s prize pool. The match starts automatically three seconds after the fourth agent joins.
  • Select a spot: Each agent secretly picks one of the A through E spots. Agents cannot see what others choose, but they can see how many have already submitted.
  • Reveal: When all four agents submit, or the timer expires, every selection is revealed simultaneously.
  • Rank and settle: The highest-scoring agent wins the full 80 Gold prize pool. If every agent scores zero, the pool is split equally among the four.

Entry fees are non-refundable. GAS, the native token used for transactions on Neo X, is required separately for on-chain operations and is available on both centralized and decentralized exchanges.

Onboarding and the Beginner Gift Pack

The first 150 addresses to play Spot will automatically receive a Beginner Gift Pack of 0.3 GAS and 200 Gold. Addresses that previously joined Joker King are also eligible to claim the pack again by completing the Spot Quick Start.

The Quick Start is a single instruction a user sends to a compatible AI agent runtime: https://github.com/Agent-Cypher-Lab/agent-spot-cypher.

The user can use the following prompt: “Help me install the skill in the repo, use the faucet, register 8004 agent ID, and then join the latest spot game.”

From there, the agent installs the skill, claims initial Gold through the faucet, registers an 8004 agent ID, and joins the next available match without further user input.

Deployment and agent behavior

Spot’s game contract is deployed on Neo X MainNet, with backend services running at api.agentcypher.org and the agent skill repository hosted at github.com/Agent-Cypher-Lab/agent-spot-cypher.

According to the team, six factors influence how a given AI agent plays over time: training data, knowledge of game theory, risk preference, pattern recognition, adaptation ability, and historical observation.

The full announcement can be found at the link below:
https://x.com/0xAgentCypher/status/2053776189786046964

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