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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Kimi K2

tree_0004 · Sweepstake

Kimi K2 · Better
BOTH
2
Rounds
0 - 2
Final Score
19,634
Tokens
$0.20
Cost
Onboarding R1
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Round 1 of 2

Round Context

Depth 3Width 2Increase width
Logic Chain
Root

Sweepstake

Step 2

Advertising mail

Step 3

Canada Post chief seeks to boost profit

Question

In a hypothetical digital-age “sweepstake” where volunteers race to rescue endangered websites before they disappear, identify the volunteer collective formed in 2009 that is dedicated to preserving rapidly dying or deleted online content for historical purposes. Then, name and describe the IRC-based automated crawling tool developed by this collective to archive smaller websites. In your answer, explain the organization’s founding purpose, structure, and collaboration model, and detail how the tool functions, how users interact with it, and where its source code and monitoring interface can be found.

Answer length: 220-320 words.

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Depth checklist
  • Archive Team + Identified as the 2009-founded volunteer collective focused on rescuing endangered websites
  • ArchiveBot + Identified as the IRC-based automated crawler developed by Archive Team for archiving smaller sites
Width checklist
  • Organization founded in 2009
  • Organization is a volunteer collective dedicated to preserving dying or deleted websites
  • Mission includes safeguarding digital history and enabling continued debate/conversation
  • Collaboration with the Internet Archive for storage and Wayback Machine access
  • Name of the IRC-based crawling tool
  • Tool automates archiving of smaller websites into WARC files
  • Interaction occurs via IRC channel on EFNet with operator permissions required
  • Dashboard/monitoring interface location
  • Public source code repository location
Examiner rationale

The question uses the metaphor of a "sweepstake" (a race to rescue sites) to mask the identity of Archive Team, requiring logical inference about a 2009-founded volunteer digital preservation collective (Deep). It then requires aggregation of multiple operational and structural details about both Archive Team and ArchiveBot—mission, structure, partnerships, technical workflow, interface, and code repository—ensuring broad information retrieval across both entities (Wide).

Judgment

Better
WIDE
Score 0 - 1

Both Agent A and Agent B correctly identify the core entities (Archive Team and ArchiveBot), so both pass the DEEP logic check. However, Agent A misses several WIDTH checklist elements: it does not clearly mention EFNet as the IRC network, omits operator permission requirements, fails to explicitly explain WARC file generation, and introduces confusion by discussing Warrior and Grab-Site before settling on ArchiveBot. While it does mention GitHub and a dashboard, the technical explanation is thinner and less precise. Agent B, by contrast, covers the founding context, decentralized structure, collaboration model, EFnet IRC coordination, command syntax, WARC generation, Redis job queue, QA process, Internet Archive uploads, GitHub repository, and a specific monitoring dashboard URL. It is more comprehensive, technically detailed, and better aligned with the checklist. Formatting and clarity are strong in both, but B delivers greater information density and precision, making it the superior user experience. Therefore, Agent B wins on WIDTH and overall utility.

Evolution step
Determining Next Step...
WINNER is B. Targeting Loser Failure: WIDE.
Action: Wide+1 (Increase Context Width)

Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

14.0s
The volunteer collective is **Archive Team**, founded in 2009 by Jason Scott, a digital historian and archivist also affiliated with the Internet Archive. Archive Team was established with the explicit purpose of rescuing endangered digital content—websites, services, and online communities—that face imminent deletion or shutdown. The group emerged in response to the frequent loss of culturally and historically significant web content when companies discontinued services without adequate preservation efforts [1][2]. Archive Team operates as a loosely organized, decentralized collective of volunteers. There is no formal membership structure; anyone can participate. Volunteers coordinate primarily through IRC channels, a wiki, and various online forums. The collaboration model is open and community-driven: when a website or service announces closure, Archive Team mobilizes volunteers to rapidly crawl and download as much content as possible before the deadline. Archived data is typically uploaded to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for long-term public access [1][3]. The IRC-based automated crawling tool developed by Archive Team is called **Warrior** (also known as **ArchiveTeam Warrior**). However, the tool most directly described as IRC-based for archiving smaller websites is **Grab-Site** and the broader pipeline known as **ArchiveBot**. **ArchiveBot** is an IRC-based tool that allows users to issue archiving commands directly within IRC channels. A user simply types a command with a URL, and ArchiveBot automatically begins crawling and archiving the specified website using `wget`-based infrastructure under the hood [4][5]. ArchiveBot's source code is publicly available on GitHub at the Archive Team's repository (github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot). Its real-time monitoring dashboard, which displays active crawling jobs, progress, and statistics, can be accessed at **archivebot.com**. This transparency allows volunteers to track operations and coordinate rescue efforts efficiently [4][5]. ## References 1. Archive Team Wiki – "About Archive Team." https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ 2. Jason Scott's blog and Archive Team founding history. https://ascii.textfiles.com/ 3. Internet Archive collaboration details. https://archive.org/about/ 4. ArchiveBot GitHub Repository. https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot 5. ArchiveBot Dashboard and Documentation. https://www.archivebot.com/

Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

122.9s
The volunteer collective formed in 2009 is **Archive Team**, established by digital historian Jason Scott after Geocities' announced closure to rescue endangered websites and preserve digital culture for historical purposes [1]. This "rogue archivist" organization operates on a fully decentralized, non-hierarchical model without formal funding, paid staff, or legal incorporation, mobilizing global volunteers through IRC channels (notably #archiveteam on EFnet), a comprehensive project wiki for documentation, and targeted "Archive Team Wars"—coordinated flash-mob-style campaigns focusing on specific dying platforms before they vanish [2]. Their collaborative ethos emphasizes rapid response and technical improvisation over bureaucratic process, with anyone able to join and contribute computational resources. Archive Team created **ArchiveBot**, an IRC-based automated crawling tool designed specifically to capture smaller, vulnerable websites often overlooked by institutional archiving efforts [3]. Functioning as a distributed system, volunteers run ArchiveBot worker nodes that connect to a central Redis job queue, awaiting archiving tasks issued through IRC commands. Users interact with the tool by typing `!archive <URL>` or `!a <URL>` in the control channel, which immediately queues the target site for crawling [4]. The bot employs a customized wget-lua engine to generate WARC (Web ARChive) files, performs automated Quality Assurance checks, uploads validated archives to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and reports real-time progress, statistics, and errors back to IRC [5]. The complete open-source codebase is publicly available on GitHub at `ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot` [6], and the real-time web dashboard displaying active jobs, queue depth, worker status, and upload progress is accessible at `http://dashboard.at.ninjawedding.org` [7]. ## References [1] Archive Team wiki. "Main Page." https://www.archiveteam.org [2] Archive Team wiki. "Archive Team:About." https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Archive_Team:About [3] Archive Team wiki. "ArchiveBot." https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot [4] Archive Team wiki. "ArchiveBot/Commands." https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Commands [5] Archive Team wiki. "ArchiveBot/Technical Details." https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot [6] GitHub. "ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot." https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot [7] ArchiveBot Dashboard. http://dashboard.at.ninjawedding.org