From e2969f9ed714ed71f624e7ec84c94ca3c75b75c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zeroXbrock <2791467+zeroXbrock@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:04:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add contender flag info to readme

---
 README.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7c70e8c..5331b30 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ $ builder-playground cook l1 --latest-fork --output ~/my-builder-testnet --genes
 - `--log-level` (string): Log level to use (debug, info, warn, error, fatal). Defaults to `info`.
 - `--labels` (key=val): Custom labels to apply to your deployment.
 - `--disable-logs` (bool): Disable the logs for the services. Defaults to `false`.
+- `--contender` (bool): Enable [contender](https://github.com/flashbots/contender) spammer. Required to use other contender flags.
+  - `--contender.arg` (string): Pass custom args to the contender CLI. 
+  Example: `--contender.arg "--tpb 20"`
+  - `--contender.target` (string): Change the default target node to spam. On the `l1` recipe, the default is "el", and on `opstack` it's "op-geth".
 
 To stop the playground, press `Ctrl+C`.
 

From c7c404c925e424b806252d519cbe762b7e2b2903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zeroXbrock <2791467+zeroXbrock@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:09:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] add conflict rule for contender tps/tpb

---
 playground/components.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/playground/components.go b/playground/components.go
index 2ea62bf..c571fef 100644
--- a/playground/components.go
+++ b/playground/components.go
@@ -906,6 +906,9 @@ func (c *Contender) Run(service *Service, ctx *ExContext) {
 		if flag == "-r" && seen["--rpc-url"] {
 			return true
 		}
+		if (flag == "--tpb" || flag == "--tps") && (seen["--tpb"] || seen["--tps"]) {
+			return true
+		}
 		return false
 	}
 

From 1c6a63af606302811d538fb03d19647b98dc3643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zeroXbrock <2791467+zeroXbrock@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:13:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] fully flesh out tps/tpb conflicts for contender

---
 playground/components.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/playground/components.go b/playground/components.go
index c571fef..ee70830 100644
--- a/playground/components.go
+++ b/playground/components.go
@@ -906,7 +906,8 @@ func (c *Contender) Run(service *Service, ctx *ExContext) {
 		if flag == "-r" && seen["--rpc-url"] {
 			return true
 		}
-		if (flag == "--tpb" || flag == "--tps") && (seen["--tpb"] || seen["--tps"]) {
+		if (flag == "--tpb" || flag == "--txs-per-second" || flag == "--tps" || flag == "--txs-per-block") &&
+			(seen["--tpb"] || seen["--tps"] || seen["--txs-per-second"] || seen["--txs-per-block"]) {
 			return true
 		}
 		return false