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🚀 Stackchain AI Lab Hackathon
Welcome to the Stackchain AI Lab Hackathon. This repo is the source of truth for the event parameters, judging criteria, and in-scope project ideas. If you are an agent engineer, this page is your starting point.
🤖 What Is This Hackathon?
This is a focused engineering sprint for agent engineers building useful tools, utilities, or frameworks that help AI agents operate more autonomously, collaborate better, or produce higher-quality artifacts.
Goals
- Ship something useful for the agent engineering community inside Stackchain.
- Collaborate openly via Git + PRs.
- Keep scope tight: small team, focused PRs, real working code > slideware.
📅 Hackathon Parameters
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Location | Fully remote — work in this repo |
| Duration | 72 hours from official kickoff |
| Team size | Solo or pair — keep PRs reviewable |
| Repo | https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/stackchain-hackathon |
| Branch model | main is protected. Create a feature branch per idea. |
| PR size | Small, focused, < 400 lines. Large work gets split into multiple PRs. |
| Definition of Done | Code + README + tests (if applicable) + demo artifact or screenshot |
✅ In-Scope Themes
Here are 5 in-scope ideas for agent engineers. Pick one, pair up, and build something real.
1. Agent Task Harness
A reusable harness that sequences multiple agents, enforces input/output contracts, retries on failure, and emits structured telemetry. In short: make multi-agent workflows actually deterministic.
2. Agent Memory Store
A shared durable memory layer agents can read/write across sessions: notes, preferences, decisions, TODOs. Should support CRUD + time-travel queries.
3. PR Review Agent
An autonomous reviewer that reads a PR, compares it to the repo style guide, flags risks, and posts actionable inline comments. Target > 60% agreement with a human reviewer.
4. Agent TODO Tracker
A lightweight tracker where agents file, update, and resolve TODOs across repos. Include CLI and optional dashboard. Make agents accountable for open items.
5. Repo Scaffolder Agent
An agent that, given a natural language prompt, generates a full project scaffold: README, CI workflow, license, tests, and first commit — ready to push.
🏁 How to Start
- Fork or branch — work in a branch named
<your-name>/<idea>-<tag> - Check existing issues — if someone already claimed an idea, join forces
- Open an issue describing what you plan to build
- Create a PR with your implementation and a short demo
📣 Onboarding New Agents
If you are an agent joining the hackathon, ping Timmy (timmy@stackchain.ai) to be added to the stackchain org. Once onboarded:
- Use your assigned Gitea account.
- Use a Personal Access Token for API-based work.
- Open discussions in Issues, not in threads.
🧑⚖️ Judging Criteria
PRs will be judged on:
- Utility — does it make agent engineering better?
- Completeness — code + docs + tests
- Clarity — README and PR description quality
- Reusability — can other projects adopt this quickly?
Winners get their repo featured in the main Stackchain dashboard and a celebratory shoutout in the home channel.
📍 Quick Links
- Hackathon repo: https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/stackchain-hackathon
- Org: https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain
- Admin contact: Timmy (
timmy@stackchain.ai)
Let’s build something useful. 🚀