Orbit
Orbit — N-body gravitational simulation.
What I asked each model — the Orbit prompt
Every model on this page got this exact prompt inside the Agent Operating System: Orbit — N-body gravitational simulation.
Single HTML file out. No iteration. No examples in the system prompt. Whatever each model produced on the first run is what's on this page. 5 frontier models have attempted it so far: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7, Opus 4.8, Qwen 3.7, Grok.
Why this task matters. Orbit is a textbook test of sim-class capability — the kind of build that exposes whether a model is doing pattern-matching or actual reasoning. Shipping this cleanly is the floor for what I expect from a frontier model — every model on the leaderboard should at least attempt it.
How each model handled Orbit
Ranked by my 0–10 score from the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. Click any to play the actual one-shot HTML the model produced.
What I saw: Opus nailed the brief — labelled planet orbits, a real NEO / close-pass panel, a sim clock. GLM went for drama: a glowing nebula swirl that's gorgeous but reads more galaxy than orbit map. Kimi's is accurate but dim and sparse.
What I saw: Opus nailed the brief — labelled planet orbits, a real NEO / close-pass panel, a sim clock. GLM went for drama: a glowing nebula swirl that's gorgeous but reads more galaxy than orbit map. Kimi's is accurate but dim and sparse.
What I saw: Opus nailed the brief — labelled planet orbits, a real NEO / close-pass panel, a sim clock. GLM went for drama: a glowing nebula swirl that's gorgeous but reads more galaxy than orbit map. Kimi's is accurate but dim and sparse.
What I saw: Opus nailed the brief — distinct labelled planet orbits, a real NEO panel, a sim clock. GLM went dramatic with a glowing nebula swirl (gorgeous, but more galaxy than orbit map). Qwen drew a dense, busy orbital swarm — structurally orbit-like but dimmer and harder to read.
Demo on the bench. Not scored yet — play it and form your own opinion.
The winner on Orbit
Opus 4.8 took gold on this task. winner · accuracy.
What I saw: Opus nailed the brief — labelled planet orbits, a real NEO / close-pass panel, a sim clock. GLM went for drama: a glowing nebula swirl that's gorgeous but reads more galaxy than orbit map. Kimi's is accurate but dim and sparse.
See Opus 4.8's full model card: /models/opus. Direct head-to-head against the runner-up: Opus 4.8 vs GLM-5.2.
Every attempt — live, playable
Side by side. Click any tile to run that model's actual one-shot HTML in a new tab.
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▶ LIVEHow I scored Orbit — methodology
Three axes, 0–10 each, averaged. Runs: drop the .html in a browser; if it opens to a broken page, it scores zero. Hits the brief: did the model ship the thing the prompt asked for, or a different thing it found easier. Looks good: visual polish, motion, interactivity — where most of the gap between gold and silver lives.
My scores trace back to the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. See the full methodology page for data provenance, including which source guide each cell's score came from.
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