polats/tiny-army-zerogpu

⚔️ Tiny Army

HF Build Small Hackathon entry — Track 2 ("An Adventure in Thousand Token Wood").

Tiny Army: every fighter writes its own legend — and the legend is true.

A small local LLM gives each auto-battler unit a persona and writes its first-person war diary from what it actually lived through. The twist that makes the AI load-bearing: a unit's experience-shaped "soul" drives how it fights, so the diary describes the unit's own real, learned behaviour. Two small models, both load-bearing — a 1–3B LLM for voice, a <1 MB policy net for tactics.

Architecture

• —FastAPI serves the custom Pixi battle frontend (the deterministic combat engine + souls + the ONNX captain run in the browser).
• —A mounted Gradio app (/app) is the barracks: persona + war-diary generation via llama.cpp (local, no cloud — 🔌 Off the Grid + 🦙 Llama Champion).

This is the current skeleton; see the plan in the auto-battler repo (docs/design/hackathon-build-small.md).