Build an AI Agent And Win 💸

#ai #hackathon #mcp #devchallenge

“Everyone’s talking about AI agents. But what can you actually build?”

We (the team at Portia AI) keep hearing this — so we’re turning the question back to the community... and we're offering $$$ to the people who can come up with the best answer!

Announcing The "Agents Showdown"

For the next 4 weeks, we're taking submissions for our first ever online hackathon. Join us for a chance to earn £500

💸 Glory awaits!

Overview

Portia AI is an open source SDK that wants to stand out because it helps AI agents pre-express their planned response to a prompt, share their progress during execution, and solicit human input under defined conditions.

👉🏼 We want to build some cool examples that leverage our differentiators and add them to our examples repo on Github.

The Bounty

The best submission will win a £500 bounty and will be featured on our social channels.

Judging Criteria

Submission should be very current i.e. leverages the latest emerging technologies in AI (MCP, A2A etc).
- Example: Two Portia agents coordinating their plan runs with each other / kicking off other Portia agents.
Demonstrates Portia’s strong suit e.g. dynamic planning with reinforcement (user-led learning) and / or human-agent interaction (hooks and clarifications).
- Example: Use hooks to handle profanity, PII leaks, prompt injections and more.
Touches on regulated spaces where mistakes due to agents going off the rails are very costly e.g. healthcare, finance, legal, insurance
Quality of submission (demo video, readme, code quality)
Submission should use solely (or predominantly) the Portia framework

Eligibility and How To Enter

Comment on this issue when you start working on the hackathon to let us know you're on it
Submit your project as a comment on this Github issue
- Provide a link to a private repo shared with emmaportia and Momo
Include a high-resolution demo video explaining how your project works
Write up a Readme including:
- Key package dependencies
- Setup steps
- Running instructions
- Overview of key components in the code
Follow our contribution guidelines in particular around linting
Star our GitHub repo 😇

Developer Resources

Get immersed in our SDK and give us a star ⭐️ (GitHub).
Head over to our docs (docs.portialabs.ai).
Join the conversation on Discord (https://discord.gg/DvAJz9ffaR).
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