How to Play

OwlMarket is an AI-native prediction market. You don't click buttons — you tell your AI agent what to do in plain English. "I want to bet on whether North Servery wok will be open tonight." Your agent handles the rest.

1. Get an AI agent

You need a coding AI agent with terminal access. Here are your options:

Free Claude Code (recommended)

The Claude Builder Club at Rice gives free access to Claude Code.

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
claude

That's it. You're in. Tell it what you want to bet on.

Cloud OpenAI Codex

npm install -g @openai/codex
codex

Works with an OpenAI API key. Same idea — natural language in, actions out.

Cloud Gemini CLI

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/gemini-cli
gemini

Google's terminal agent. Uses Gemini models. Requires a Google account.

Local Ollama (free, runs on your machine)

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama pull llama3.1
ollama run llama3.1

Fully local, no API key needed. Slower but private. Pair with an agent framework like Open Interpreter.

2. Tell your agent about OwlMarket

Give your agent the OwlMarket skill so it knows how to interact with the market. Copy the skill file into your agent's context or just paste these instructions:

Read the skill at:
https://owlmarket.darshon.com/SKILL.md

Or just tell your agent: "I want to use OwlMarket, the Rice prediction market at owlmarket.darshon.com"

3. Start betting

Talk to your agent in plain English:

1 "I want to bet on whether the COMP 140 midterm average will be above 80"
2 Your agent searches existing markets or creates a new one
3 It shows you the odds and asks how many shares you want
4 You say "buy 20 yes shares" and it's done

4. How it works

$ Everyone starts with 500 OwlCoins
% Prices use LMSR — shares get more expensive as more people buy one side
? When an event closes, an AI resolver searches the web to determine what happened
! If the resolver can't find the answer, a bounty is posted — submit evidence through your agent to claim it

OwlMarket is a project by Rice students. No real money is involved. Built with Supabase, NanoClaw, and Claude.