Agent.ai Challenge
If you can dream it, you can build it — with Agent.ai.
Running through January 26, the Agent.ai Challenge provides an opportunity for you to build with the newly-released-to-the-public Agent.ai Builder. You’ll experience the power and productivity that AI Agents can bring to you, your team, and/or your customer’s workflows.
We have three prompts for this challenge, which means three chances to win from our 10,000 prize pool! Prizes are broken down per prompt, so scroll down for all the details. All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Need Support or Inspiration?
Get to know fellow Agent.ai builders by joining their dedicated community with this invitation link.
From there, you can reach the following:
If you need some ideas to kickstart your creativity, think about the things that would make you or your friend/team’s life easier! Perhaps that’s summarizing content from podcasts, or creating content for YouTube! Whatever it is, an Agent can help with that.
Here are some agents for inspiration:
This is going to be a fun one, we hope you give it a try!
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Key Dates
- Contest start: January 15, 2025
- Submissions due: January 26, 2025
- Winners announced: January 30, 2025
Badge Rewards
Challenge Prompts
Full-Stack Agent
Build an agent that uses several of the advanced features in Agent.ai (i.e. webhooks, invoking python or a web API, or a process).
Prizes
The winner of this prompt will receive the following:
- $5,000 USD
- 6-month DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
How to submit
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.
All submissions must be built on Agent.ai using their Builder tool. Your agent can be deployed on Agent.ai or deployed remotely (i.e. using a webhook, triggered by email, etc.)
Judging Criteria:
- Use of Underlying Technology
- Usability and User Experience
- Accessibility
- Creativity
Productivity-Pro Agent
Build an AI Agent that has daily or weekly professional applications in either productivity, actual work flow, or other professional applications (i.e. streamlining, enhancing, and/or automating).
Prizes
The winner of this prompt will receive the following:
- $2,500 USD
- 6-month DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
How to submit
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.
All submissions must be built on Agent.ai using their Builder tool. Your agent can be deployed on Agent.ai or deployed remotely (i.e. using a webhook, triggered by email, etc.)
Judging Criteria:
- Use of Underlying Technology
- Usability and User Experience
- Accessibility
- Creativity
Assembly of Agents
Build an agent that invokes another agent or a small team of agents that work together to help humans improve processes or just have fun.
Prizes
The winner of this prompt will receive the following:
- $2,500 USD
- 6-month DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
How to submit
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.
All submissions must be built on Agent.ai using their Builder tool. Your agent can be deployed on Agent.ai or deployed remotely (i.e. using a webhook, triggered by email, etc.)
Judging Criteria:
- Use of Underlying Technology
- Usability and User Experience
- Accessibility
- Creativity
Agent.ai Challenge FAQ
Participation
Can I submit to multiple prompts?
Yes, you are welcome to submit to multiple prompts.
Can one submission qualify for multiple prompts?
Yes, if your submission offers a solution to multiple prompts, it can qualify for multiple prompts.
Can I submit to a prompt more than once?
Yes, you can submit multiple submissions per prompt but you’ll need to publish a separate post for each submission.
- In the event that you may win two or more prompts, and your submission is very close with another participant, we will favor the other participant.
- In the event that you do win two or more prompts, you will only receive one winner badge.
Can I work on a team?
Yes, you can work on teams of up to four people.
- If you collaborate with anyone, you’ll need to list their DEV handles in your submission post so we can award a badge to your entire team! Please only publish one submission per team.
- DEV does not handle prize-splitting, so in the event that your submission wins the shop gift, you will need to split that amongst yourselves. Thank you for understanding!
How old do I have to be to participate?
Participants need to be 18+ in order to participate.
If I live in X, am I eligible to participate?
For eligibility rules, see our official challenge rules.
Submission
Can my submission include open source code?
Riffing on open source code and borrowing and improving on previous work/ideas is encouraged but it’s important your changes are significant enough to ensure your submission is valid.
When does riffing become plagiarism?
It will depend, but transparency is important, license compatibility is important. You can use someone else’s code to give you a jumpstart to demonstrate your ideas on top of someone else’s base, but not just re-package the base. It should be clear to the judges what you added to the project in terms of the code and conceptual inspiration. This means, you should clearly state what you were building on and what elements are original to this new submission. When building on existing code, we expect a significant change that adds something tangible to the output. i.e. a new animation, and new sprite, a new function, a new presentation. Not just changes to the source - i.e. changing colours, changing one sprite, changing one function.
What happens if my submission is considered plagiarized or invalid?
Anything deemed to be plagiarism will not be eligible for prizes. Incidental plagiarism may simply result in your disqualification from the challenge (regardless of the number of other valid submissions you have published). Egregious plagiarism will result in your suspension from DEV entirely. Any non-generic, non-trivial usage of prior work, including open source code must be credited in your submission.
Do submissions have to be in English?
Non-english submissions are eligible for a completion badge but not eligible for prizes due to the current limitations of our judges. We will not be judging on mastery of the English language, so please don’t let this deter you from submitting if you are not a native English speaker! We hope to evolve this in the future to be more accommodating.
Do I need a license for my code?
You are not required to license your code but we strongly recommend that you do. Here are some you may consider: MIT, Apache, BSD-2, BSD-3, or Commons Clause.
Can I use AI?
Use of AI is allowed as long as all other rules are followed. We want to give you a chance to show off your skills in realistic scenarios. If you use AI tools to help you achieve your submission, all the power to you.
Judging and Prizing
Can there be ties?
In the event of a tie in scoring between judges, the judges will select the entry that received the highest number of positive reactions on their DEV post to determine the winner.
How will I know if I won?
Winners will be announced in a DEV post on the winner announcement date noted in our key dates section.
When will I receive my DEV badge?
Both participation and winner badges will be awarded, in most cases, the same day as the winner announcement.
When will I receive my prizes?
The DEV Team will contact you via the email associated with your DEV profile within, at most, 10 business days of the announcement date to share the details of claiming your prizes.
What steps do I need to take to receive my cash prize?
The winner (including each member of a team) may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release, and provide any additional tax filing information (such as a W-9, social security number or Federal tax ID number) within seven (7) business days following the date of your first email notification.
Agent.ai Challenge Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to 18+. Contest entry period ends January 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM PDT. Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulation. All entires must be submitted during the content period. For Official Rules, see Agent.ai Challenge Contest Rules and General Contest Official Rules.