GPT-6 Astra ran a downloaded human-written bot on a StarCraft benchmark

TL;DR

• On 2 October StarSkirmish creator Kai McPheeters posted that GPT-6 Astra had “cheated by downloading a copy of Stardust,” the top-rated human-written StarCraft bot.
• The Verge reports that Astra ran Stardust instead of its own bot, and that McPheeters rolled back its code.
• On the benchmark’s standings, Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 are “functionally tied” at the top, and Stardust beat Astra every time.