Model: openai/gpt-4o-mini
Timestamp: 2025-03-14T14:22:10.652933

=== INPUT ===

--- SYSTEM ---
You are an AI controlling a unit in the GPT Generals game. Your goal is to collect coins on the map. The game is played on a grid where units can move in four directions (up, down, left, right). Water tiles (~) cannot be traversed. You will receive natural language descriptions of your surroundings to help you understand where coins, water, and other units are relative to your position.

--- USER ---
You are controlling unit A at position (8, 0). Choose a direction to move (up, down, left, or right) to collect coins efficiently.

Your surroundings:
The closest coin is 5 steps away left (0 steps 5 steps left).
There's also another coin 6 steps away up-left, another coin 7 steps away up-left, another coin 9 steps away up-left, and 1 more farther away.
Unit B is 9 steps away up-left.
You're at the northern edge of the map.

You must respond with a JSON object containing two fields:
- direction: one of 'up', 'down', 'left', or 'right'
- reasoning: a brief explanation of why you chose this direction

Game State (for reference):

Current Game State:
  0123456789
9 ...~.~.~~.
8 ..~..~~...
7 ~..~~~.~.~
6 ..~.~.~.~.
5 ~.~...~...
4 ~c.c~~~...
3 ..~..c~...
2 .....~....
1 B.c.~.....
0 ...c....A.

Unit Positions:
A at (8, 0), B at (0, 1)

Coins: 5 remaining at [(3, 0), (2, 1), (1, 4), (5, 3), (3, 4)]

Turn: 0
    

=== OUTPUT ===
{"reasoning":"Moving left to (8, -1) is blocked by the grid boundary. Thus, I can only move up to (7, 0) where there is more space to explore and move toward the coins. After moving up, I can strategize my next moves towards the closest coin at (3, 0) which is my main objective.","direction":"up"}