ARC‑AGI‑3 Preview Agent Competition

Your objective: Build an agent that completes the most levels possible on three public ARC-AGI-3 games and two hidden games. Open for 3 weeks.

Spirit of the Developer Preview Competition

This is an informal, community‑driven preview competition designed to probe ARC‑AGI‑3’s new interactive games. ARC Prize retains full discretion over rules and awards, all of which may evolve.

• Stress‑test five new ARC‑AGI‑3 games

• Collect community feedback on agent tooling, API, & evaluation criteria

• Showcase techniques for building general‑purpose interactive agents

• Open source sharing: All submissions must be open source to be considered for prizes.

The ARC-AGI-3 Preview Competition is in partnership with HuggingFace.

Get Started

Head over to the ARC-AGI-3 API documentation or view the ARC-AGI-3 Agent tutorial video to view the steps below

1. Clone the

   ARC-AGI-3-Agents repo

2. View: the ARC-AGI-3 API documentation

3. Build: Create your own agent and run it on the three public games to view your progress

4. Submit: When you’re happy with a run, submit your solution. Hosts will select top submissions to run against the private games for scoring. If not selected, you'll be able to run your submission against the private games (once made public after the submission period) on your own.

Have questions? Reach out to team@arcprize.org or join the #arc-agi-3‑agent‑competition channel in the ARC Prize Discord for Q&A.

Competition Scoring

During the submission window, 3 public games will be available to play and test on. After the submission window is closed, 3 private games will be made public.

To incentivize generalization (and not overfitting), public games score + ARC Prize discretion will be used determine which submissions will be tested on private games. Private game scores will determine the final ranking.

Notes:

• Tie‑breakers: If two agents have the same score, the one with the least number of actions across private games will be ranked higher. If a tie remains, the solution submitted first will be ranked higher.
• Documented and reproducible: Each submission must be easily reproduceable and documented. If we are not able to run your submission with minimal effort, we will not score it. For reference on how to run your submission, see the API documentation.
• ARC Prize Discretion For Agent Eligibility: Our goal is to not encourage solutions which are overfit to public games. Therefore, even if your agent is able to run on the public games, we may not select it for the private games if we believe it is overfit.
• Leaderboard: The leaderboard seen at three.arcprize.org will be used to determine the in-competition ranking.

Terms, Conditions and Rules

Prizes are awarded at the sole discretion of ARC Prize Foundation and are subject to review by our Technical Team. We may issue more or fewer awards based on the spirit of the prize and the received submissions. You agree to make your method open source if you win a prize. It does not have to be open source at the time of submission, but you have to make it open source under a permissive license to accept the prize by Aug 11, 2025 10am. Submissions for prizes will close on August 10, 2025 11:59pm PST. ARC Prize Foundation reserves the right to modify prize terms at any time in order to more accurately reflect the spirit of the prize as designed. Prize winner must provide payment information to ARC Prize Foundation within 30 days of prize announcement to receive prize.

Additional Rules

• Tasks & Evaluation: Submissions must be reproducible on 3 public games + 3 private games.
• Compute & Submission Limitations: For submissions using public APIs, solutions must use less than $1K to reproduce results on the 5 public/private games within 8hrs. For submissions using compute (ex: RL based submissions), solutions will be evaluated with a RTX 5090 with 8 hours of compute time.
• No guarantee of submission acceptance: Only top ~10 submissions (by host discretion) will be scored for prizes due to capacity constraints.
• Limited to 10 team members: For attribution, list all team contributors when submitting your solution. Include relevant links (Twitter/LinkedIn/Personal Sites) which ARC Prize can link to.
• Submission Limit: Only 1 submission will be considered. If a team submitted multiple solutions, the latest submission before the deadline is judged.
• Open Source: Submissions are required to be open sourced to be eligible for a prize. However, they are not required to be open source at time of submission. If eligible for a prize, code must be open sourced and public by Aug 11, 2025 at 9am PT. If hosts are not able to reach team members to confirm open sourced, the submission will be discarded.
• Host discretion: ARC Prize may modify rules or prizes at any time.
• Team Eligibility: The competition is open worldwide except where prohibited by U.S. law. While anyone pay particiapt, to win a prize your team must not: be ordinarily resident in, or organized under, any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC (see Treasury’s Sanctions Programs and Country Information page for the current list). Appear on, or be majority-owned/controlled by anyone on, the U.S. Consolidated Screening List.

Disclaimer: This preview is not the official 2025 ARC Prize competition. It exists to iterate on evaluation tooling and gather community insights. By participating you agree that (a) your submissions may be publicly discussed, and (b) ARC Prize Inc. retains full discretion over rule changes, prize allocation, and leaderboard publication.