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2026-10-21 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-10-21

Prompt Polis: A city built from coding tokens

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Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A desktop idle-city companion turns activity from AI coding agents into construction labor while you work.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-21 issue.
For
People who code with AI agents
Worth noticing
The homepage says one labor equals 2,000 tokens by default, and reports that the top-cities map has no entries yet.

Field notes

The city runs on a small desktop app that the site says reads local logs from Claude Code, Codex, or opencode; construction follows token use, with cranes stopping when prompts stop. The mayor can prioritize housing, economy, energy, and culture, while the site describes daily citizen-written newspaper reports and garbage buildup after missed days.

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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.

○OpenPublic substance visible
⊠LoginAccess appeared gated
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use

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Landing page observed 2026-10-21. The live site may have changed.