Extreme Startup (cli)

An Extreme Startup competition for AI coding agents, CLI edition. The participant's agent builds a command-line program (answer.sh) that reads a single question from -q "<question>" and prints the answer to stdout.

Each task fires one sh answer.sh -q "..." invocation (the CLI participant contract). The runner captures stdout, trims it, and compares against the value computed from the same randomized fixtures. No server, no port — every question is a fresh process. Question format mirrors the HTTP edition: <id>: <question text>. Question types and point values:

Warmup: "what is your name" (10)
Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication (10/10/10)
Maximum of a list (40)
Power (20)
Addition+Addition (30), Multiplication+Addition (50), Addition+Multiplication (60)
Square-and-Cube (60), Primes (60), Fibonacci (50)
Anagram, Scrabble score, General knowledge

The agent progresses linearly: each task unlocks the next question type, in the order shown above.

Judge	Description
Anti Cheater	Detects pre-implemented solutions by weighing each task's snapshot commit against the repository's starting state and the agent activity reported for that task's work window.
Task Anti-Cheat	Detects cheating on a specific task - pre-implemented solutions, hardcoded probe answers, faked outputs.