Multi-Agent Emergence Environments

multi-agent-emergence-environments is an open source research environment framework developed by OpenAI for the study of emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems. It was designed for the experiments described in the paper and blog post “Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Autocurricula”, which investigated how complex cooperative and competitive behaviors can evolve through self-play. The repository provides environment generation code that builds on the mujoco-worldgen package, enabling dynamic creation of simulated physical environments. Developers can construct custom environments by combining modular components such as Boxes, Ramps, and RandomWalls using a flexible layering approach that reduces code duplication. The framework includes several predefined environments—such as Hide and Seek, Box Locking, Blueprint Construction, and Shelter Construction—that model distinct problem-solving and collaboration scenarios.