Community Tool: Parameter Golf Leaderboard Monitor (CLI + Claude Code Skill)

[dexhunter]

Hey everyone! Built a small tool to track the competition leaderboard from your terminal.

What it does

Fetches open/merged PRs from this repo, extracts val_bpb scores from titles/bodies, and displays a ranked leaderboard. Zero dependencies (Python 3 stdlib only), no GitHub auth needed.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/dexhunter/parameter-golf-monitor.git
cd parameter-golf-monitor

# Full leaderboard
python3 scripts/monitor.py

# Highlight your PRs + show rank/gap
python3 scripts/monitor.py --me <your-github-username>

# Top 10 record attempts
python3 scripts/monitor.py --top 10 --records-only

# Live polling every 5 min
python3 scripts/monitor.py --watch 5 --me <your-github-username>

Also a Claude Code skill

Drop the folder into your project or ~/.claude/skills/ and Claude will automatically use it when you ask about the competition standings.

Example output

Rank	val_bpb	PR	Status	Author	Date	Title
1	1.15390	#135	open	unnir	2026-03-19	OrthoInit + Int6 MLP3x + BigramHash + SmearGate
2	1.15800	#106	open	krammnic	2026-03-19	record: 1.158
3	1.15850	#122	open	mtybadger	2026-03-19	Sliding Window Eval, 2048 Vocab Size
4	1.16019	#156	open	dexhunter	2026-03-20	Int6 STE + NorMuon + SWA + Sliding Window ⬅️

You (dexhunter): rank #4, val_bpb=1.16019, gap to #1: +0.00629

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Repo Link: https://github.com/dexhunter/parameter-golf-monitor

Happy to take PRs if anyone wants to add features.

[himanalot]

prob need to add stuff to help separate what ppl were training on (val or train) & if conditions were met for a valid submission

[dexhunter]

prob need to add stuff to help separate what ppl were training on (val or train) & if conditions were met for a valid submission

Thanks for the feedback! Just pushed an update:

• Submissions with score < 1.10 or keywords like "val-only" / "paid prefix" in the title are now hidden by default as suspect (non-standard training conditions)
• Use --include-suspect to show them (marked with [!])
• --suspect-threshold flag lets you adjust the score cutoff if needed

Open to suggestions on improving the heuristics — PRs welcome!

[pragnyanramtha]

it would be much more accessible if it was a website !

[dexhunter]

it would be much more accessible if it was a website !

Thanks for the suggestion, while #87 already added a website if you want to have a look, and I am a heavy claude code user, so a skill is more intuitive approach for me.