Agent Templates Hackathon. Meet the winners.
64 hours to build a NanoClaw template on the open Agent Plugins standard. Eight templates took prizes across the Overall category and the Tavily and Dial tracks, and the standouts get featured in the registry.
What is an agent template?
The hackathon has ended. Winners were announced September 10.
See the winnersWinners
Announced September 10. Each template links to its pull request.
home-assistant
Talks to your own Home Assistant through its built-in MCP server; what you expose is the whole permission model, and anything it can do can go on a schedule.
Prize: Reachy Mini
plant-based-coach
Suggests three plant-based dishes that fit your taste, finds the recipe and the nearby shops for the ingredients, and checks in on how it went.
Prize: Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit
remote-hands-reviewer
Compares a hardware work order with the photos a remote tech sends back, shows which labels match and what is missing, and drafts the follow-up.
Prize: NanoClaw swag bag
Partner tracks
Each partner judged its own track, with its own prizes.
NanoClaw
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Send it a nutrition claim, headline or link and it checks the claim against the live evidence, returning a verdict with the sources attached.
- 10,000 credits
- 2nd evidence-domino
Catches supplier price changes before a proposal goes out: retrieves the approved source through Tavily, recalculates the margin, and prepares a cited repair.
- 5,000 credits
- 3rd trust-check
Checks a listing, seller, rental or job offer against the live web and hands back a scored verdict, from Looks fine to Red flag, with sources in under two minutes.
- 3,000 credits
NanoClaw Dial
- 1st reference-check
Runs the reference call so the recruiter does not have to: confirms consent is on file, places an AI-voiced call through your Dial line, and reports back.
- $3,000 in credits
- 2nd trade-front-desk
An after-hours front desk for a small trade shop on a Dial line: answers texts, follows up on calls, collects the job details, and pages the owner on emergencies.
- $2,000 in credits
Join the Discord community!
The help thread, the updates, and the Community Pick vote all happened there.
Resources
How to Use NanoClaw Agent Templates (Agent Plugins)
Jordan Urbs
A walkthrough of how agent templates work and how to build one.
Getting started with templates
The reference for building a template: structure, the Agent Plugins standard, and what a good one looks like.
Not running NanoClaw yet? Get set up in three commands.
$ git clone https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw.git
$ cd nanoclaw
$ bash nanoclaw.sh How it works
How the hackathon ran, start to finish
Warm up
Webinars and walkthroughs to get fluent in NanoClaw before the clock started, plus the Discord to ask in. All of it announced to the mailing list.
Requirements drop, submissions open
The requirements went out to the mailing list, this page, and the Discord channel, and the build window opened at the same moment, so everybody started together.
Build
Builders made their templates and recorded demos showing them running. The help thread and updates ran in the Discord throughout.
Submissions close
Last call for templates and demo videos. A hard deadline.
Judging + community vote
The judging panel scored entries while the community voted on the Community Pick in the Discord, both running in parallel.
Winners announced
Prizes awarded, and the standout templates get featured in the registry.
Frequently asked questions
What were the requirements?
What were the requirements?
Who could enter?
Who could enter?
How many templates could an individual/team submit?
How many templates could an individual/team submit?
Could the same template be entered in more than one category/track?
Could the same template be entered in more than one category/track?
What did a submission involve?
What did a submission involve?
The full contest terms are in the Official Rules (September 2026). Where this page and the Rules disagree, the Rules control.