Portal2Bench
Can AI agents solve Portal 2?
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HN · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: ai benchmarking platforms · 145 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -56% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI, leaderboard, and results pages are easy to vibe-code, but the core is a game-control harness that pauses Portal 2, feeds screenshots to models, and enforces budgets. Running and trusting the benchmark also requires substantial model compute and research-grade evaluation design.
What it would actually take: The harness needs a way to pause and step Portal 2 (engine console or custom hooks), capture screenshots, read player position, and inject input. It also needs a planner loop that calls frontier model APIs under cost and step caps, plus per-chamber reproducibility checks. The hard parts are reliable game-state access and the API budget, which runs to tens of dollars per run across many models.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #2823 of 3309 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 381 days after the earliest competitor.
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