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Gamification (Beat the Bot)

Lastest includes an optional competitive scoring layer where team members compete against AI bots on a leaderboard. Designed to encourage test quality -- not test farming -- with rewards heavily weighted toward verified outcomes.

Enabling Gamification

Gamification is a per-team toggle, disabled by default.

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Find the Gamification toggle
  3. Enable it

A season is auto-created on the first score award if none exists.

Scoring Rules

Event Points Notes
Test created +10 Small to prevent test-farming
Approved a real visual change +15 Diff approved as intentional change
Regression caught +100 Your test caught a real regression
Resolved a review todo +5 Closed a review todo item
Flaky diff penalty -5 Flaky diff attributed to your test (daily cap: 25 pts)
Achievement unlocked +25 Bonus on first-time achievement

Bug Blitz Multipliers

During Bug Blitz events, all scores (including penalties) are multiplied by a configurable factor (2-5x). Admins can create time-boxed Bug Blitz events from the admin card.

Achievements

Achievement Trigger
First Test Created your first test
First Regression Caught your first regression
First Blood Surpassed the bot score by 1+ points
Crushed the Bot Surpassed the bot score by 100+ points
Season Winner Ended the season in first place

Leaderboard

Navigate to /leaderboard to see the season standings.

  • Top 10 ranked actors (humans and bots) with podium styling for top 3
  • Per-actor breakdown: tests created, regressions caught, flakes incurred
  • Your own row is appended if you're outside the top 10
  • Only visible when gamification is enabled for your team

Seasons

Seasons are named periods (e.g. "Season 1") that scope all scores, achievements, and leaderboard rankings. Admins can:

  • Start a new season
  • End the current season
  • Create Bug Blitz events within a season

When no season exists, one is auto-created on the first score event.

Admin Controls

Settings page includes a Gamification Admin card for team owners/admins:

  • Enable/disable gamification for the team
  • Start and end seasons
  • Create Bug Blitz events with custom duration and multiplier

Real-Time Celebrations

When gamification is enabled, celebratory toast notifications appear in real-time via the existing activity feed SSE stream. Events are deduped by ID so you never see the same celebration twice.

Design Principles

  1. Rewards >> penalties -- Penalty is small (-5) and daily-capped at 25 points
  2. No "points for bugs found" -- That's a textbook perverse incentive. Rewards are tied to verified outcomes (approved changes, resolved todos)
  3. Test creation reward is small -- Prevents test-farming
  4. Never breaks real flows -- All gamification hooks swallow errors silently
  5. Opt-in -- Disabled by default, per-team toggle

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