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Silicon Society Sandbox (SiliSocS) is an versatile and extensible experimentation system for EASE-configured generative multi-agent simulations

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**NOTE: This repository is currently in alpha development, and we expect to ship further stability updates over the coming weeks**

# SiliSocS

**A configurable, extensible framework for multi-agent social simulation and experimentation.**

SiliSocS (Silicon Society Sandbox) is easy to use and is structured around the EASE decomposition (Environment,
Agents, Simulation engine, and Evaluation), taking inspiration from the Concordia framework and providing a
principled, reproducible configuration layer for simulated worlds. You define each axis in YAML: the environment
agents inhabit, the agent population and their memories, the simulation engine that schedules how and when agents
act, and the evaluation that measures them. Built-in environments span social platforms (a Twitter-like app, a
Reddit-like app, and a real Mastodon server), a resource market, and a virtual space, and you can add your own.
SiliSocS offers scenario-driven grounding, game master-mediated environments, local and served backends,
evaluation probes, runtime telemetry, and experimental study tooling. Interoperability for Concordia-designed
agents is available through an optional bridge extra.

- 2026 ICML Position Paper [ICML 2026](https://www.complexdatalab.com/stamina/papers/puelmatouzel_CloseEvalGap.pdf)
- 2026 EASE Configuration: [arXiv:2605.30258](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30258)
- Documentation: [sandbox-social.github.io/silisocs](https://sandbox-social.github.io/silisocs)

Papers on a previous version centered on a served Mastodon social media network:
- 2024 NeurIPS Workshop Paper: [arXiv:2410.13915](http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13915)
- 2025 IJCAI Demo Paper: [IJCAI 2025](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/1271)

## Install

The default package is intentionally lean and supports local simulations without
Studio, Mastodon, HuggingFace, or analysis dependencies:

```sh
pip install silisocs
```

Optional integrations are exposed as extras:

```sh
pip install "silisocs[hf]"        # Hugging Face persona sources
pip install "silisocs[mastodon]"  # real Mastodon backend
pip install "silisocs[studio]"    # unified visual workspace
pip install "silisocs[analysis]"  # notebooks and extended analysis
pip install "silisocs[concordia]" # optional Concordia bridge
pip install "silisocs[hpc]"       # optional Submitit/Slurm study helpers
```

For contributor work from a checkout:

```sh
git clone https://github.com/sandbox-social/silisocs.git
cd silisocs
uv sync --all-extras --group dev --group docs
```

## Quick Start

Run the built-in package default scenario:

```sh
uv run silisocs
```

For a local smoke test without model API calls:

```sh
uv run silisocs sim.llm.provider=scripted
```

Override scale or model settings with Hydra dot notation:

```sh
uv run silisocs num_agents=10 num_steps=5 sim.llm.name=gpt-4o
```

Run a bundled external scenario:

```sh
uv run silisocs --config-path scenarios/election/conf
```

Run the packaged resource-market preset:

```sh
uv run silisocs world=resource_market agents=resource_market env=resource_market
```

Run the packaged virtual-space preset:

```sh
uv run silisocs world=virtual_space agents=virtual_space env=virtual_space
```

The same backends also have curated external examples under `scenarios/`:

```sh
uv run silisocs --config-path scenarios/resource_market/conf world=resource_market agents=resource_market env=resource_market
uv run silisocs --config-path scenarios/virtual_space/conf world=virtual_space agents=virtual_space env=virtual_space
```

Outputs are written under `outputs/<scenario_name>/<jobname>/` and include
`action_events.jsonl`, `probe_events.jsonl`, `prompts_and_responses.jsonl`,
`sim_metrics.json`, a resolved Hydra config snapshot, and a local
SQLite backend database for local platforms.

## Studies and Experiments

Study orchestration ships in the package as `silisocs.studies.run_study`, exposed
as the `silisocs-study` console command (equivalent: `python -m
silisocs.studies.run_study`). It expands hypotheses, conditions, scenarios, and
seeds into reproducible simulation runs, then executes the configured evaluators
and writes organized artifacts under the study's `generated/` directory.

```sh
uv run silisocs-study --study experiments/studies/study_template_v1 plan
uv run silisocs-study --study experiments/studies/study_template_v1 run --only-hypothesis h1_timeline_mechanism
uv run silisocs-study --study experiments/studies/study_template_v1 summary-append --author analyst --hypothesis h1_timeline_mechanism --note "Initial finding"
```

Custom commands plug in through `conditions.<id>.execution.command`, evaluator
commands through the `evaluations` list, and optional HPC setup through the
study runner's `submitit` or `slurm-array` commands. See
[docs/experiments.md](docs/experiments.md) and
[docs/study_schema.md](docs/study_schema.md).

## Architecture

The canonical runtime entry point is `src/silisocs/runtime/runner.py`. It
composes Hydra configuration, builds agents, initializes memory, constructs the
environment backend and game master, runs the simulation engine, and writes
artifacts.

```text
silisocs/
├── src/silisocs/
│   ├── agents/              # Native and bridge-compatible runtime agents
│   ├── conf/                # Packaged Hydra defaults
│   ├── studio/              # Unified visual workspace and control plane
│   ├── environments/        # Game masters and environment backends
│   ├── evaluations/         # Probes, telemetry, and optional analysis tools
│   ├── runtime/             # Runner, config projection, and orchestration
│   └── simulation_engines/  # Engine loop, step, and turn policies
├── scenarios/                  # Scenario configs and curated inputs
├── experiments/             # Study orchestration and generated study outputs
├── docs/                    # ProperDocs documentation
└── tests/                   # Unit and integration tests
```

## Optional Concordia Bridge

SiliSocS runs on native runtime contracts by default. The optional Concordia
bridge is for porting Concordia-designed agents or components without
making Concordia part of the default install:

- All runtime agents satisfy `silisocs.agents.base_agent.Agent`.
- Native runtime classes and GM components are the primary extension API.
- Legacy Concordia-shaped components are isolated behind
  `silisocs.adapters.concordia`.
- Scenario YAML selects builders, backends, policies, probes, and prompts so
  most experiment designs do not require Python edits.

See [docs/concordia_bridge.md](docs/concordia_bridge.md) and
[docs/building_agents.md](docs/building_agents.md) for the extension contracts.

## Development

Common commands:

```sh
uv run pytest
uv run silisocs-config-dry-run --project-root .
uv run --group dev poe lint
uv run --group dev poe docs
uv build --sdist --wheel
uv run --group docs properdocs build --strict
```

- `uv run pytest` runs the test suite in the current environment.
- `uv run silisocs-config-dry-run --project-root .` composes shipped scenario
  and replication configs without running LLM calls.
- `uv run --group dev poe lint` runs the configured formatting, static checks, and type
  checks.
- `uv run --group dev poe docs` runs the configured documentation build task.
- `uv build --sdist --wheel` builds release artifacts in `dist/`.
- `uv run --group docs properdocs build --strict` builds the documentation site
  and fails on broken links or stale navigation.

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