StarSkirmish benchmark updated; GPT-6 Astra tops LLM StarCraft coding

StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 has flagship LLMs write StarCraft bots in one hour and compete. GPT-6 Astra ranks first, with GPT-6.1 Sol second at about a tenth of the cost per run; Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 are tied at 37-39. The best model wins only 7% against top human-written bots.

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