Kaggle Dominator

An evidence-driven strategy and execution skill for legitimate Kaggle competition work across tabular, computer vision, NLP/audio, simulation and agent ladders, code competitions, and judge-scored hackathons.

It is the competitive brain: live reconnaissance, validation design, BEST_KNOWN protection, experiment portfolios, ensembling, campaign focus, and submission decisions. Pair it with a separate kaggle infrastructure skill for authentication, downloads, kernels, and API plumbing.

What v3 adds

• Universal routing across all major Kaggle formats.
• Portfolio states (ACTIVE, MONITOR_ONLY, PAUSED, CLOSED) and explicit budgets for attention, compute, submissions, storage, and deadline slack.
• A candidate queue with exploit/explore/audit lanes and stop/continue gates.
• Fresh-score, metric-direction, submission-availability, and provenance checks.
• Clear authority boundaries for submissions and public actions.
• Compliance, attribution, reproducibility, and anti-leakage safeguards.
• Learning checklists, public-resource guidance, an account scorecard, measured cross-domain lessons, and bounded autonomous loops.
• Contract tests and Codex discovery metadata.

Core loop

live recon
  → front card and resource budget
  → reproduce strongest compliant baseline
  → trustworthy validation / arena
  → candidate batch with cheap gates
  → full measurement and diversity analysis
  → submission decision with authority + quota checks
  → fresh score, ledger update, next decision

A candidate never replaces BEST_KNOWN until the correct real metric confirms it. If validation disagrees with the leaderboard or ladder, repair validation before continuing to tune.

References

Need	Reference
Multiple fronts and resource focus	campaign-control.md
Cross-domain competitive process	grandmaster-playbook.md
Measured account history	scorecard.md
Tabular	tabular.md
CV, NLP, audio, signals	deep-learning.md
Simulation and agents	simulation.md
Code competitions and hackathons	code-and-hackathon.md
Autonomous bounded loops	autonomous.md
Self-curation	self-improvement.md
ML craft	learning-craft.md
Learning sources and attribution	resources.md
Winning solution patterns	winning-solutions.md
Tools and communities	arsenal.md

Install

Codex project-local installation:

git clone https://github.com/KapaSique/kaggle-dominator.git \
  .agents/skills/kaggle-dominator

Codex user installation:

git clone https://github.com/KapaSique/kaggle-dominator.git \
  ~/.agents/skills/kaggle-dominator

Invoke it explicitly as $kaggle-dominator, or let it trigger on competitive Kaggle strategy requests. It deliberately does not trigger for badge collection, account configuration, or CLI installation alone.

Verify

python3 -m unittest -v tests/test_skill_contract.py
python3 /path/to/skill-creator/scripts/quick_validate.py .
bash -n scripts/*.sh
python3 -m py_compile scripts/*.py tests/*.py

License

MIT