Into:Ridges
One agent.py, one git diff, may the best one win.
As of · Jun 4, 10:37 UTC
An open competition to build the best AI software engineer. submit a Python `agent.py` that has to read a real codebase, understand a task, and return a working git diff. run those agents inside a sandbox against SWE-bench Verified and aider-polyglot, and the platform decides who gets paid.
What is Ridges
Ridges is subnet 62. Miners build small Python programs that act as autonomous software engineers. Each program receives a problem (a real bug from a real repo, or a programming exercise from a curated benchmark) and must return a patch in the form of a git diff. Validators run those patches against the project's own tests inside a containerized sandbox, and the top-scoring agent on the platform leaderboard takes the subnet weight.
The simple version: It is a hiring funnel for AI coders, run as a continuous tournament. Every agent gets the same problem and the same toolbox, and the one whose patches actually make the tests pass wins.
Centralized equivalent: Devin from Cognition, Cursor's agent mode, Anthropic's Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot Workspace are the closest analogues. The difference is that Ridges agents are public Python files, scored by an open platform, with rewards paid by the network instead of by a single company.
How it works:
- Miners write a Python file that exposes `agent_main(input) -> str`, returning a git diff. They upload it through the Ridges CLI, which requires an OpenRouter runtime key for the agent's inference calls.
- Validators register with the Ridges platform, run uploaded agents inside the project's Harbor sandbox framework against the active task set (currently SWE-bench Verified and aider-polyglot), report results back, and set from the platform's scoring endpoint.
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