February 4, 2026
Game on, sleep off
RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code
AI bots invade a RuneScape playground — fans thrilled, purists nervous
TLDR: RS-SDK lets AI bots play a RuneScape-style sandbox with fast leveling and a leaderboard. Comments split between giddy all-nighters and ethical caution, while researchers praise it as a safe place for agents to learn fast without harming the real game’s economy — a flashy peek at the future of AI play.
RS-SDK just landed, and the comments are already a carnival. It’s a free sandbox that lets AI-driven bots play a RuneScape-style world with faster leveling, infinite stamina, and a leaderboard — perfect for racing to those fabled 99s. One user screamed, “I’m gonna lose so much sleep,” while another waved the nostalgia flag: “Long live botting.” Researchers chimed in too, swooning over how a real game world lets agents “ratchet their progress” more autonomously than boring office tasks.
There’s drama: ethics vs. fun. Some cheer this as a safe, bot-only lab — not connected to the real game, so no wrecking anyone’s economy. Others clutch pearls, worried it normalizes cheating, prompting the crowd favorite compromise: do it where it doesn’t hurt anyone. Newbies are flexing, like the commenter who never played before yet had an AI write scripts and complete a quest to craft runes. Cue memes about “SHOW_CHAT=true if you dare,” since chat is off by default to block scams and trick prompts.
The techy bits sparked snark: quotes of the quirky “botclient” gateway setup and jokes about the dev saying “there is a login server… I forget.” But the vibe is clear: this GitHub toy is half research lab, half all-night arcade, and the leaderboard is the new battleground.
Key Points
- •RS-SDK is an open-source starter kit for RuneScape-style bots, including a TypeScript SDK, agent docs, bindings, and a server emulator.
- •The architecture uses a botclient and gateway server to connect the SDK to the LostCity 2004scape server emulator; the SDK cannot directly talk to the game server.
- •The demo server features faster leveling, infinite run energy, and disabled random events to ease bot development and testing.
- •Setup is available via Git cloning and either Claude Code or manual bun scripts; chat is off by default to prevent prompt injection and scamming.
- •The project is for education and research, is not affiliated with Jagex Ltd., and bots will not work on official RuneScape servers; it is licensed under MIT.