What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents costly configuration mistakes when setting up zicato tournaments and multi-round evolution runs, especially the confusion between within-round bracket structures and across-round evolution.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Structure Selection: Choose among gauntlet, single-elimination, double-elimination, Swiss, and racing formats based on field size, noise, ranking needs, and budget.
- Evolution Planning: Configure field size, replicates, rounds, promotion gates, cache modes, and runtime limits while understanding how proposer memory accumulates across rounds.
- Validation and Cost Control: Estimate board-run costs, identify throttling and retry risks, and diagnose stalled evolution caused by missing experiment memory or non-persistent workspaces.
- Use Case: When a multi-round run produces no promotions, use this Skill to determine whether the proposer is still learning from prior experiments and telemetry or whether the evolution loop is incorrectly configured.
Quick Start
Use the zicato tournament configuration skill to select an appropriate bracket, size a four-round evolution run, estimate its cost, and verify that experiment memory is being carried across rounds.
