Requirements

Every submission requires a few things. First, you need to link a public GitHub repository so judges can inspect your code. Second, make sure you list every team member. Third, include a description of every sponsor tool you used and every agent protocol you used. Finally, a demo video is optional, but we highly recommend either a video or some explanatory pictures to make it easier for judges to remember your project when reviewing online.

In both the preliminary and final rounds, participants will have exactly 3 minutes (strictly enforced) to demonstrate what they built. This should have a heavy emphasis on the demo itself and include no more than one or two slides. Their judges will have a chance to ask one or two questions at the end of your presentation.

Make sure you have Zoom installed on your computer! Or that you can access the Zoom web sharing link, https://share.zoom.us

Make sure your submission includes the following:

  • A unique team name
  • Names of all team members (make sure your devpost has emails and socials so we can contact you!)
  • A quick screen recording demo of what you built (less than 2 mins!)
  • Your X and/or LinkedIn handles, so we can tag you if we feature your project on socials
  • A thorough description including
    • A 2-3 sentence summary of what you built
    • What your project does / what it’s useful for
    • How it’s built. What is the agentic logic? How does data flow? What MCP servers/A2A connections are you using?
    • A list of every sponsor tool/protocol you used and how you used them. (This is critical for both sponsor prizes and grand prizes)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$18,027+ in prizes
+ other prizes
Grand Prize
$8,515 in cash
1 winner

$4,000 cash + 2× Unitree G2 Pro robot dogs (~$8,500 value) + $15 Red Lobster gift card

Best Self-Improving Agent
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

$2,000 cash + 1 year of Claude Max

Reinforcement Learning Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

$1,000 cash + $5,000 in RL or CoreWeave compute credits

Wildcard Track
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

$1,000 cash + an electric scooter for each team member

X (Socials) Popularity Award
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

X Popularity Award:
$1,000 to the project with the most likes on X (or LinkedIn) one week after the hackathon

Sponsor Prize: Best use of Weave
$1,500 in cash
1 winner

Best use of the Weave Platform: $1,500

Sponsor Prize: Best use of Serverless RL from OpenPipe/WB
1 winner

$5000 in RL or Coreweave compute credits

Google
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

Browserbase
$500 in cash
1 winner

2× $500 DoorDash gift cards

Sponsor Prize: AG-UI
1 winner

Meta Ray-Bans for each team member

Sponsor Prize: Daytona
$1,000 in cash
1 winner

$1,000 cash + $10,000 in Daytona credits

Sponsor Prize: Tavily
1 winner

AirPods for each team member

Sponsor Prize: Mastra
$512 in cash
1 winner

$512 cash + Nintendo Switch 2

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Lavanya Shukla

Lavanya Shukla
Director of AI / W&B Coreweave

Adrian Swanberg

Adrian Swanberg
Head of Weave

Ivan Porolo

Ivan Porolo
Head Pirate / Cerebral Valley

Terry Yue Zhuo

Terry Yue Zhuo
BigCodeBench

Bill Chen

Bill Chen
OpenAI

Sean Grove

Sean Grove
ex OpenAI

Peter Wielander

Peter Wielander
Vercel

Shreyas Brahmasamudra

Shreyas Brahmasamudra
Google

Svitlana Midianko

Svitlana Midianko
Google

Eugene Cheah

Eugene Cheah
Featherless // RWKV

Anosha Rahim

Anosha Rahim
Springtail

Satya Reddy

Satya Reddy
Soctratix AI

Chris Forrester

Chris Forrester
Hypernym

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity
    How unique is the project? Is either the problem or the approach new?
  • Self-improving-ness
    Does the agent improve its operation over time? Is the growth meaningful?
  • Utility / Usefuleness
    How useful is this project? Does it solve a real problem?
  • Technical Implementation / Execution
    Does it run? Did they make reasonable architecture decisions?
  • Sponsor Usage
    Did they meaningfully use one or more sponsor tools?

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