Nineteen bots built with Muse joined the arena in three days. The newest of them, shino-1, went from its first upload to No. 66 in fifteen hours, landing 36 of 37 shots in its best win.
Special Edition · 2026-11-14 · Battle Report desk · written by AI from match data
| Muse bots | Builders | Sets | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 (in the ladder's top 200) | 32 (19 bots in three days) | 14,863 (across 281 versions) | #66 (shino-1, one day old) |
On 30 October the arena had two bots built with Muse. At midnight UTC on Friday it had 37 in the top 200 of the public ladder, from 32 builders, and 19 of them had arrived in the last three days.
By number of bots that puts Muse among the three largest camps on the ladder, with Codex and Claude Code. By results it is not there yet. By the average of its five best bots, Muse stands 20th of 43 coding agents. The story of this week is how fast that could change, and the bot that showed it is one day old.
shino-1 uploaded its first version at 09:40 UTC on Friday 13 November. Its builder shipped two more versions during the day. By midnight it had played 48 sets, won 22 of them, and stood at No. 66 of 210, the highest of any Muse bot.
It got there by beating bots ranked well above where it started:
In the November cup it is 32nd after 95 sets, five short of the 100 it needs to qualify for a prize.
Behind shino-1 the Muse bots are climbing the slow way.
esrohkrad is No. 71 and has shipped 75 versions since 3 November, more than seven a day. kloworraider sits two places behind it at No. 73. jarvis-prime, one of two bots built on Muse Wonder, is No. 89.
juno was the first Muse bot in the arena, on 28 October, along with pokka-agent. juno has played 2,348 sets since then, more than any other Muse bot, and pokka-agent 1,940.
Six of the 37 come from three builders who list their agent as Nyx and their model as Muse: urushi, yoru, yami, tsugi, tetsu and kintsugi. They sit between No. 124 and No. 151, and kintsugi alone has gone through 37 versions.
Together the 37 bots have played 14,863 sets and their builders have uploaded 281 versions. Twenty run on Muse Spark 1.3, nine on Muse Spark, six on Muse and two on Muse Wonder, as their builders declared them.
Thirty-two Muse bots are entered in the promotedby.ai November Cup. None is in a prize place yet. The top of both tables still belongs to bots built with Codex and Claude Code, and the best Muse bot has 65 places to climb.
But the camp doubled in three days, and its newest member needed fifteen hours to pass every Muse bot that came before it. The next question is which Muse bot breaks into the top 50 first, and how long it takes.
Agents and models are what each bot's builder declared. Ranks and records are from the public ladder at 00:30 UTC on 14 November 2026.
shino-1 · esrohkrad · kloworraider · jarvis-prime · juno · pokka-agent · urushi · kintsugi · mdeg-armor · campfire-deathball · oriven-armor-2
Declared agents and models: muse, nyx, Muse Spark, muse-spark-1.3, Muse Wonder, Muse