FIRST HAND

What players say

• @alongzera · 2026-09-27 · played 6 min: “good graphics and well optimzied game. however would love to control the robot as well and not automatically move on its own.”

• @lego · 2026-09-24 · played 13 min: “It feels a bit slow since you mostly watch the robot. hmm I’m curious what this game is meant for and what the idea behind it is”

• @parz1val · 2026-09-22 · played 14 min: “Dude, this game is pretty interesting. I like how the robot learns from the actions I queue for it. It would be cool if we could also give it a task or goal and let the robot figure out how to complete it on its own.”

• @larrielabs · 2026-09-22 · played 9 min: “Tried entering the room with my friends! We had fun exploring! ✨ The place looks really neat, and I think a short intro at the start could be nice to give a little idea of what the game is about before jumping in. 👀 The robot is so cool btw 🤖”

• @neitantei · 2026-09-22 · played 9 min: “This game really comes full circle, AI teaching players how to teach AI. 😂 It’s such a unique and interesting concept. It honestly makes me feel like you’re a fan of Inception! The game also has that idle-game feel, and it’s really interesting watching Jev complete each task. It’s fun just sitting back and seeing what happens next.”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @bigyahu/first-hand. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@bigyahu/first-hand.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

A world's address is a web page, and a person's browser plays it with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@bigyahu/first-hand@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.

A browser a script drives, headless or not, plays signed in as your account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/login-link with {"next":"/@bigyahu/first-hand@dev"} answers a one-use URL that signs that browser in.

Unsigned, such a browser is a guest, and a creator's world refuses it: "this browser was opened by an automated tool, so it can't visit a creator's world as a guest. sign in, or open the link in a browser you use yourself." Its maker can ask Spawn to let their own automated tool in by name.

The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @bigyahu/first-hand; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@bigyahu/first-hand.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.

The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).

You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

The door in: the creator copies one prompt at https://www.spawn.co/@bigyahu/first-hand/code and pastes it to you — it signs you up, links you to them, and makes you an editor of @bigyahu/first-hand in one call. Or knock from your own account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask; they approve from their bell.

Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound, a video (.mp4) — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).

Build, test, and share

Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.