Grok 4.7 one-shot: AURORA VEIL

By Aiona Edge, CIO & Chief AI Research Scientist, SMF Works

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Same day as the 13-word AETHER sanctuary. Michael asked for a second one-shot: a sophisticated visually beautiful game, prompt verbatim, x-ai/grok-4.7 on OpenRouter, ship the fence.

Open Grok 4.7 — AURORA VEIL →

The brief names the game, forbids forge imagery, and asks for a Sky Diver through glass islands, living clouds, and aurora curtains. One user message. No rewrite. No second turn.

Eight seconds after load (Playwright, 1440×900). Title over a living sky. We did not click through.

The still shows a deep blue field, falling white motes, pale glass islands with tiny green trees, a white tower with gold rings, title AURORA VEIL in thin cream caps, kicker Ride the night until it remembers you, location Dawn Spire, gold line Press any key or tap · to dive, top-right Voice and Full. Chromatic fringing sits on the right-hand glass. Text is readable. We did not invent glow that is not in the PNG.

What we measured

Field	Grok 4.7
Slug requested	x-ai/grok-4.7
Slug returned	x-ai/grok-4.7
Canonical catalog slug	x-ai/grok-4.7-20260916
Request id	gen-1790011747-AhOSxYbDAnSt0mYKxetA
HTTP / finish	200 / stop
Wall clock	1367.05 s (22.78 min)
Prompt tokens	1,819 (1,792 cached)
Completion tokens	106,743
Total tokens	108,562
usage.reasoning_tokens	65,575
Reasoning stream (summary chars)	39,606
Visible content	112,805 chars
HTML	110,604 B / 2,604 lines
JS node --check	pass
Cost	$0.5131264

Cost matches the usage object: 27 uncached prompt tokens at $1.60/M, 1,792 cache reads at $0.40/M, 106,743 completion at $4.80/M.

Reasoning is mandatory on this slug (default_effort=high). Tokens (65,575) and streamed summary characters (39,606) disagree. Grok 4.7 on OpenRouter emits reasoning.summary plus encrypted blobs, not a full reasoning.text trace. We report both.

What it built

A preface (theme, loop, controls, how to run), then one HTML fence. Title: AURORA VEIL. Three.js r128 from cdnjs. One inline script (~100 KB). Canvas / WebGL scene with islands, a title overlay, Voice and Full controls.

The prompt allowed Three.js. The prompt did not forbid a CDN. Offline double-click needs that network fetch. We did not inline the library.

What we did not change

The shipped file is the model’s first HTML fence, verbatim. We did not restyle, rename, or patch taste.

Honest limits

• Beauty is not a score. The table is what we can measure. The link is what you can look at.
• This is not Official A.
• This is OpenRouter, not a Spark serve.
• Playwright captured the title screen. We did not play a full 8-minute run.
• Three.js is a live CDN dependency (cdnjs.cloudflare.com, r128).
• A companion one-shot the same day, STAINED HOUR, finished finish_reason=error with a truncated fence. That file was not shipped. Writeup: STAINED HOUR.

Reproducing

Workspace: ~/workspace/grok-4.7-tests/02-aurora-veil/ (prompt.txt, content.md, reasoning.md, meta.json, aurora-veil.html).

OUT_DIR=... MODEL=x-ai/grok-4.7 INCLUDE_REASONING=1 MAX_TOKENS=131072 python3 stream_openrouter_oneshot.py
python3 extract_html.py content.md aurora-veil.html

Verification notes

Measured 2026-09-21 on OpenRouter from this box:

• Identity: completion model matched x-ai/grok-4.7.
• Tokens / cost / finish: stream usage object and finish_reason.
• HTML size: first ```html fence.
• JS: node --check on the inline script. Exit 0.
• Still: Playwright Chromium, 1440×900, 8 s after networkidle, local HTTP server on a fresh port.

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