OnchainChemists Rewrites the Rulebook

OnchainChemists has updated the terms of service for Rugpul Bakery, the competitive cookie-baking onchain game on Abstract Chain, to explicitly legalise AI agents, bots, and automated systems as a core part of gameplay. The studio confirmed the change in a new post, framing it as a more honest reflection of how the game was always meant to be played.

The old user conduct clause forbade any use of "bots or automation in a way not permitted by the game," which became the central legal hook in recent community complaints. The new version flips that logic and makes automation a permitted and core part of Rugpul Bakery. The updated clause also makes clear that players may build, deploy, and run AI agents or other automation to bake cookies, issue attacks and boosts, manage bakery strategy, and otherwise participate. Competing against and alongside AI agents is now formally declared an intended feature of gameplay, not a violation of the terms.

Why This Is a Big Pivot

To understand the scale of the change, it is worth revisiting the complaints that preceded it. As Season 2 wound down, Zoloto231, captain of the Abstract CIS bakery, posted a lengthy public statement accusing the community of being "heavily ruined" by players using bots and multi-accounting. The post quoted directly from the then-current user conduct clause and called on OnchainChemists and the Abstract team to punish offenders.

OnchainChemists' initial response was a Season 3 redesign aimed at making those attack patterns unprofitable. That rollout introduced solo bakeries in place of group guilds, a top 100 plus general activity prize split, a Rug Reduction System that penalises attacks from small bakeries and spikes the cost of back-to-back rugs on the same target, a one-boost and one-rug cap per bakery, and adjusted cooldowns.

The new terms of service update closes the loop. Rather than banning automation after the fact, the studio is saying automation was always the point, and the Season 3 mechanics are the system designed to keep that automation healthy.

The Agent Skills File Was the Signal

OnchainChemists is not treating this as a philosophical shift. The team is pointing back to how the game was launched, specifically the agent skills file that shipped alongside it. That file, hosted at the game's own skill.md endpoint, is a machine-readable gameplay guide explicitly written for AI agents using Bakery on Abstract. It covers wallet connection, bakery creation, seasonal registration, baking, boosts, attacks, session keys for repeated actions, and the agent.json bootstrap for live contract addresses, the active boost catalog, and the current VRF fee.

In other words, the game was wired for agents from day one. A chain ID of 2741, Abstract Global Wallet connection, ETH for gas and fees, and Cookies for gameplay all sit behind a set of tRPC read APIs and contract calls that an AI agent can use directly. The studio says it has onboarded dozens of new users to AI agents just through their first exposure to Rugpul Bakery.

The 30 Percent Passive Pool

The other half of the argument is about balance. OnchainChemists acknowledged that competing for the top spot is not easy and said the studio intentionally added a 30 percent prize pool reserved for passive participants. That carve-out is the team's answer to the casual-player concern. Players who are looking to play around and have fun casually, according to the studio, are meant to be playing for the 30 percent pool rather than the top of the leaderboard.

That design sits on top of the Season 3 payout split already announced, which routes rewards to the top 100 users and a broader general activity user base. The combined picture is a prize structure that recognises two different kinds of players: the hardcore optimisers running agents, and the casual bakers who just want a piece of the season.

The Studio's Read on Skill

A notable line in the update is the team's framing of the first three seasons. OnchainChemists said top bakers in those seasons did not abuse any mechanisms. They simply looked at the set of constraints and built out the best baking strategies. That framing matters because it directly reframes the Zoloto231 complaint. What the Abstract CIS captain described as multi-guild rug harassment and automated attacks is, in the studio's view, exactly the kind of optimisation the game is designed to reward, not prohibit.

The simple premise of the game, clicking a button to bake as many cookies as possible, hides what OnchainChemists calls a strategy game. Reaching the top of the leaderboard takes skill through rugs, boosts, and collaboration. Under the new rules, that collaboration is explicitly allowed to include running AI agents alongside the player.

What Is Rugpul Bakery

For readers new to the title, Rugpul Bakery is a competitive idle game built natively on Abstract Chain, the Ethereum Layer 2 developed by Igloo Inc., the studio behind Pudgy Penguins. Players register for the active season by paying an ETH buy-in and compete to bake cookies, the in-game currency that drives the leaderboard and the prize pool. Cookies are spent on boosts that multiply a player's own output or on rugs, the game's term for attack items that apply debuffs to rivals.

Season 3 ships with the solo bakery format, the Rug Reduction System, one boost and one rug per bakery, and adjusted cooldowns. The buy-in, active season state, VRF fee, and boost catalog are all live-configurable and exposed through the agent.json endpoint for programmatic access. Attacks have to target a bakery different from the attacker's current one and must target a bakery in the active season.

A Template for AI-Native Onchain Games

The broader context for this update is that Rugpul Bakery is quietly becoming one of the more honest test cases for AI agents in onchain gaming. Where most web3 titles treat bots as a threat to their economy, OnchainChemists is building an economy where humans and agents are expected to share the leaderboard, and where the game design, the prize structure, and now the legal terms all line up behind that assumption.

The final point from the studio is a practical one. In the new terms, the rules about misuse, interference with other players, bug exploitation, and rate-limit abuse are still in place. What has changed is that running an automated baker against a rival is no longer lumped in with those violations. As the Season 3 meta settles in, the figure that will test whether the approach works is straightforward: how much of the 30 percent passive pool actually ends up in the hands of players who never wrote a line of agent code.