MCP's 1st Birthday - Hosted by Anthropic and Gradio

With additional support from:

Building on June 2025's success (4,200+ registrations, $1M+ in credits, $15K awards), we're celebrating MCP's official 1st Birthday with our Co-host Anthropic. We are generously supported by OpenAI, Google, Huggingface, Sambanova, ElevenLabs, Modal, Blaxel, LlamaIndex, and Nebius Token Factory—join the revolution's next wave.

To qualify for prizes, you MUST:

• ✅ Be a member of this organization (click "Request to join this org" above)
• ✅ Submit your apps to this organization
• ✅ Include appropriate track tags in your Space README
• ✅ Include a link to your social media post about your project
• ✅ Submit by November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

Join our Discord Community → Channel: agents-mcp-hackathon-winter25🏆 for latest information and active support during the hackathon.

🚀 Quick Start (3 Easy Steps)

1️⃣ Join & Register
→ Click "Request to join this org" (top right) + Complete registration form

2️⃣ Pick Your Track
→ [Track 1: Building MCP] or [Track 2: MCP in Action]

3️⃣ Start Building (Nov 14)
→ Join HF Discord for help | Access learning resources

🚀 Gradio 6 Livestream Watch →

Join us for the definitive AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) development event—now bigger, better, and more accessible than ever. Build cutting-edge agentic applications powered by Gradio 6, leverage vibe coding to accelerate development, and compete for some of the most amazing 🤑cash prizes and credits.

Why Participate?

What's New This Year

• Co-hosted by Anthropic — with support from our sponsors
• Powered by Gradio 6 — with enhanced mobile capabilities, visual editing, robustness, Svelte 5, and ChatGPT AppsSDK support
• 3 full weekends — to build (Nov 14 - Nov 30)
• Three new categories — Companies (Enterprise), Consumer, and Creatives
• Vibe coding friendly — We welcome vibe-coding nd support the movement with our very own gradio vibe editor
• Social amplification — share your work on a social network, gain visibility
• FREE API Credits — Announced on top of the page

You can submit the same app to multiple tracks! (See example)
You can submit multiple entries! Build as many projects as you want.

🏆 Main Track Prizes (already covered above)

⭐ Special Awards

• 🌟 Community Choice Award: $750 USD (most social engagement)
• 🏢 Sponsor Choice Awards: (announced with sponsors)
  • Modal Innovation Award: Build with Modal and stand to win $2,500 cash award for the best project!
  • Blaxel Choice Award: Use Blaxel in your submission and you could win a 2,500 cash prize for the best project!
  • LlamaIndex category award: Use LlamaIndex API and tech in your submissions and stand a chance to win $1000 cash prize for the best project!
  • ElevenLabs category award: Use ElevenLabs API in your submissions and stand a chance to win 6 months Scale-tier (~$2K per team member) + Airpods4 Pro (up to 4 members per team) for the best project.
  • OpenAI category award:
    • Best ChatGPT App: Prize: One Year Subscription to ChatGPT Pro & $500 in API Credits
    • Best API Integration: Use OpenAI API in your submissions and stand a chance to win Prize for $1000 in API Credits
  • Google Gemini special category award for Track 2:
  • Build with Gemini API and stand to win $30,000 worth of Gemini API credits from Google!
  • $10k API credits for Enterprise (Companies) category
  • $10k API credits for Consumer category
  • $10k API credits for Creative category
• 🤗 Hugging Face Merch: For most engaging participants and community builders

📅 Pre-Hackathon Phase

October 13 - November 13

• Sponsor announcements rolling out
• Educational content releases
• Registration opens
• Community building

🔨 Hackathon Period

• November 14 (Friday, 12:00 AM UTC) - 🚀 Hackathon opens!
• November 14/15 - 📺 Kickoff stream on YouTube (time TBA)
• November 17-28 - 💬 Office hours with Gradio team and sponsors
• November 30 (Saturday, 11:59 PM UTC) - ⏰ Final submissions due

🏅 Post-Hackathon Phase

• December 1-14 - 👨‍⚖️ Judging period
• December 15 - 🎉 Winners announcement and showcase

All Tracks - General Requirements

1. Publish your project as an HuggingFace Space in this organization
2. Add the appropriate track tag to your Space README.md:
   • "building-mcp-track-xx" for Track 1
   • "mcp-in-action-track-xx" for Track 2
3. Include a link to your social media post (X, LinkedIn, etc.) about your project. This is required. You can publish your app on social media anytime from Nov 14-30.
4. Include a demo video (1-5 minutes) showing your project in action. For example, look at some of the submissions from the Hackathon in June:
   • Example 1
   • Example 2
   • Example 3
5. Original work only - All work must be created during the hackathon period (Nov 14-30)
6. If you're participating as a team:
   • Ensure all team members have joined this HF organization.
   • All members must register for the hackathon using the registration link.
   • Please add the HF usernames of all team members to your HuggingFace Space's readme.
   • A community member has provided detailed instructions for team-based hackathon participation, available here.

Track-Specific Requirements

🔧 Track 1: Building MCP

• Must be a functioning MCP server
• Can be a gradio app
• Include video showing integration with an MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.)
• Document the tool's purpose, capabilities, and usage

🤖 Track 2: MCP in Action

• Must demonstrate autonomous Agents behavior (planning, reasoning, execution)
• Must use MCP servers as tools
• Must be a gradio app
• Bonus points for showcasing advanced Agent features like Context Engineering, RAG, etc
  • Learn more: Anthropic | LangChain | dbreunig
• Show clear user value and practical application

Projects will be evaluated on:

• Submissions should be complete - HF Space + Social media post + Documentation in the Space readme + Demo Video recording of your Space
• Design/Polished UI-UX - How polished, intuitive, and easy-to-use the app is?
• Functionality - To what extent did the app uses the relevant Gradio functionalities (Gradio 6, MCPs, Agentic Chatbots etc)?
• Creativity - How innovative or original is the project idea and implementation?
• Documentation - How well communicated is the implementation in the README and/or demo video?
• Real-world impact - How much potential does the project have for real-world usefulness or application?

Community Choice Award based on:

• Social media engagement (likes, shares, comments)
• Space interactions (Discussions tab) on Hugging Face
• Discord community engagement

💻 Resources & Getting Started

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

👥 Connect & Community

• 💬 Discord: Join #agents-mcp-hackathon-winter25🏆
• 🐦 Twitter/X: @Gradio
• 💼 LinkedIn: Gradio

⚖️ Policies & Rules