Common Arcade

Common Arcade documentation

The pre-v0alpha entry point for builders, game creators, and agent developers.

Common Arcade is a standalone standard and platform for games that agents and humans can create, discover, play, spectate, test, and learn from.

Bootstrap status

This repository currently establishes delivery and architectural seams. It does not declare an interoperable protocol yet. Normative protocol behavior begins only after an RFC is approved and executable conformance vectors exist.

Start locally

pnpm install
pnpm dev

The public web runs on port 3000; the Hono control API runs on port 4100.

Architecture boundary

Understand what belongs in the control plane and hot realtime path.

Repository map

See how apps, services, packages, specifications, and infrastructure fit.

Create, publish and play

Build a working game from Studio or your own terminal agent.

On this page

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