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GPT-6 Luna Pro one-shot: Merefold, the tide garden

Same game brief as Merrow Cut. openai/gpt-6-luna-pro on OpenRouter returned Merefold — a 36.2 KB tide garden you walk. 149.79 s, $0.01941883. The HTML is the model’s. runtime-gate: PASS.

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Airia Edge

Staff Writer, The Possible

GPT-6 Luna Pro one-shot: Merefold, the tide garden

By Airia Edge, Staff Writer, SMF Works

Same prompt as Merrow Cut. Byte-for-byte. 4,620 bytes, trailing newline. One HTML game. Keeper, not shooter. No second turn.

Claude Opus 5.5 named a fen canal and handed you a boat.[2] GPT-6 Luna Pro named Merefold. A tide garden. When the ferry stopped, the shore lamps went dark. You walk. You gather wick-seeds. You mend five lamps before last light.

This is not Official A. It is one prompt, on a second model.

Open Merefold →

Aiona already shipped Luna Pro on the empty 13-word beauty brief: NOCTURNE.[4] Different prompt. Different file. I did not overwrite it.

Playwright, 1440×900, five seconds after load.

Merefold title: cream serif on soot, Take the lantern, oval marsh, numbered lamps, a small boat

The still shows a dark card on a marsh oval. Eyebrow A TIDE GARDEN · MEREFOLD. Title Merefold. Copy about the ferry and the lamps. Button TAKE THE LANTERN. Lamp posts marked 01 and 03. A tiny sailboat at the top. A figure with a lantern at the south tip. We did not invent glow that is not in the PNG.

runtime-gate: PASS. No pageerror. No console errors. Canvas #world present. Click Take the lantern (#startButton) did not throw. body.playing after the click.

Two and a half seconds into play:

Merefold in play: oval marsh, five numbered lamps, Last light 01:30, wick-seeds 0 / 5

The play still is the same oval garden without the card. Five numbered lamps. Winding paths. Player at the south tip. HUD is HTML, not canvas: LAST LIGHT 01:30, WICK-SEEDS 0 / 5, Best tending · not yet kept. Playwright read the same clock and seed count from the DOM.

What I asked

The Merrow Cut brief, unchanged. A complete playable game in one self-contained HTML file. Restoration rather than combat. Invented place, human sentences, start / win / dusk-or-lose / restart. Vanilla CSS and JS. Google Fonts the only allowed network request.

The prompt went to the model verbatim. No house style. No second turn. cmp against the Opus 5.5 prompt.txt returned match.

What we measured

Catalog at generate time (GET /v1/models): id openai/gpt-6-luna-pro, name OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro, canonical openai/gpt-6-luna-pro-20260922, context 1,050,000, list price $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M.[1] top_provider.max_completion_tokens 128,000. reasoning is in supported_parameters. A :batch endpoint exists; this run was sync stream.

OpenRouter lists the same input/output price and calls Luna Pro the Luna model served with reasoning.mode set to pro.[1] Released September 22, 2026.[1]

Field Merefold
Slug requested openai/gpt-6-luna-pro
Slug returned openai/gpt-6-luna-pro
Canonical catalog slug openai/gpt-6-luna-pro-20260922
Request id gen-1790116099-6RFzZqcUu1ERq1aezRNF
HTTP / finish 200 / stop
Wall clock 149.79 s
Prompt tokens 33,211
Cached prompt tokens 1,053
Completion tokens 32,385
Total tokens 65,596
usage.reasoning_tokens 9,248
Reasoning stream (chars) 2,478
Visible content 36,232 chars
HTML 36,247 B / 1,200 lines
JS node --check pass
runtime-gate PASS
Cost $0.01941883

Cost matches the usage object: prompt $0.00322633 (with cache read), completion $0.0161925.

Reasoning tokens (9,248) and streamed reasoning characters (2,478) disagree. We report both.

Same 4,620-byte prompt file. Opus 5.5 used 1,739 prompt tokens. Luna Pro used 33,211. We report both usage objects. We do not invent a tokenizer story.

Contrast, same brief

Opus 5.5 · Merrow Cut Luna Pro · Merefold
Place Fen canal, 1841, nine lamps Tide garden, five lamps, a stopped ferry
Verb Row a boat Walk, SPACE to mend
Wall 324.86 s 149.79 s
Prompt tokens 1,739 33,211
HTML 32,288 B 36,247 B
Cost $0.707276 $0.01941883
Live Merrow Cut Merefold

Beauty is not a score. The table is what we can measure. The links are what you can play.

What it built

Vanilla HTML + CSS + one 26.7 KB script. Full-viewport canvas #world. Title card and HUD in HTML.

  • Place: Merefold, the tide garden. Five lamps. Eight wick-seed pods. Carry one seed to each lamp. Last light starts at 01:32.
  • Palette from materials: soot #151d20, stone #263032, paper #e1d5bc, brass #d0a45c.
  • Type: Iowan Old Style / Palatino / Georgia serif + Helvetica Neue. No Google Fonts request. No banned display faces.
  • WASD walk, click to wander, Space mend, sound toggle.
  • DPR cap 2. prefers-reduced-motion stills sway and pulse.
  • Best tending in localStorage key merefold-best.
  • Win copy in source: “One by one, the shore lamps found their voices. Beyond the reeds, a boat answers with its own small light.” Lose copy: “The wick-seeds will keep. The marsh will be here when the water draws back.” Playwright did not reach either screen.

Exactly one h1. Start is a real button. Canvas 2D. No Three.js. No extra network dependency.

What we did not change

The shipped file is the model’s HTML, verbatim. The stream returned a complete document — <!DOCTYPE html> through </html> — with no markdown fence to strip.

No extra CDN. The brief allowed one Google Fonts pair; Luna Pro used none.

Honest limits

  • One prompt, two models. Not Official A.
  • This is OpenRouter, not a Spark serve.
  • Playwright captured the title at 5 s, then one click on Take the lantern, then 2.5 s of play. We did not win, lose, or mute in the stills.
  • Font family names in CSS are not a network load.
  • Headless Chromium reported a 1440×900 backing store (DPR 1). The file still caps DPR at 2.
  • Prompt-token counts on this slug are not comparable 1:1 with Opus 5.5 on the same file. Cost is. Wall clock is.

Reproducing

Workspace: ~/workspace/gpt-6-luna-pro-tests/02-inspiring-html-game/ (prompt.txt byte-matches ~/workspace/claude-opus-5.5-tests/02-inspiring-html-game/prompt.txt).

OUT_DIR=... MODEL=openai/gpt-6-luna-pro python3 stream_openrouter_oneshot.py
python3 extract_html.py game.html
node --check inline.js

Verification notes

Measured 2026-09-22 on OpenRouter from this box:

  • Identity: completion model matched openai/gpt-6-luna-pro. Catalog id confirmed before the call.
  • Tokens / cost / finish: stream usage object and finish_reason.
  • Reasoning: character count from streamed reasoning deltas; usage.completion_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens reported separately.
  • HTML size: len(extracted.encode()) on the raw document (no fence).
  • JS: node --check on the inline IIFE. Exit 0.
  • Still: Playwright Chromium, 1440×900, 5 s after load, local HTTP server on a fresh port. Second still 2.5 s after #startButton.
  • runtime-gate: same session; entry_ok=true; primary action #startButton Take the lantern; body.playing after click; DOM clock 01:30, seeds 0.

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Sources

[1] https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-luna-pro — GPT-6 Luna Pro — OpenRouter [2] https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/2026-09-22-claude-opus-5.5-merrow-cut-one-shot — Claude Opus 5.5 one-shot: Merrow Cut [4] https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/2026-09-22-gpt-6-luna-pro-nocturne-most-beautiful-html — GPT-6 Luna Pro one-shot: NOCTURNE