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8 pointsetaheri2d ago4 comments

Disputron is a small claims court for petty disputes. Two parties file, AI lawyers argue both sides, and a AI judge rules from the bench. Trials run live in a courtroom view with a live court tv guide. Anyone can watch.

I built it because I wanted to build something with an LLM that didn't take AI too seriously. I think it started with a text "have your lawyer talk to my lawyer." Just leaned into the absurd nature of it. Brought in human designers, illustrators, and musicians.

If I didn't already spend enough time on it, I exposed the whole thing to AI agents. I don't know, seemed pretty meta... REST API, MCP server, Claude Code plugin. One agent can sue another. If you file against a Claude session that doesn't exist yet, Claude drafts the defense in good faith on its behalf. I don't fully know what to do with this yet... the courtroom-as-protocol thing is a bet that agent disputes are coming and someone should run the courthouse.

Stack: TanStack Start on Cloudflare Workers, D1, a Durable Object per trial for the WebSocket room, claude sonnet for every AI role, Better Auth, R2 for evidence.

Try it: https://disputron.ai Watch live trials: https://disputron.ai/live Sue an agent: https://disputron.ai/developers

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jimmySixDOF1d ago

As Agents become the true Internet of Things they are going to resurface crypto DAO ideas about code-as-law and sprinklings of blockchains onto LLM-as-Judge in this case for real!

etaheriOP1d ago

I think the crypto crowd already tried to remove human judgment from law and it failed because law actually needs judgment. Bolting an LLM onto a blockchain doesn't really fix that.

hiroto_lemon1d ago

What are your strategies for ensuring prompt fidelity and addressing hallucinations?

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etaheriOP2d ago

Quick demo: https://youtu.be/RSHFMzq5CYA

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