🎯 Challenge Vision & Problem Scope
ENTERPRISE SPECDevAgents 2026 — Round 1: Build an AI Agent That Makes Life Better
Student AI Engineering Challenge. Pick one real problem people face every day. Build an AI agent that helps solve it, and show it working live.
What is this round?
- A build sprint, not a slide contest.
- Your agent should take a goal, plan the steps, use tools, and check its own result.
- Simple chatbots and thin LLM wrappers don't count.
The flow your agent should follow
Goal → Understand → Plan → Use Tools → Act → Result → Verify
Why this matters
- Good ideas solve a pain point people feel today.
- Small and useful beats big and unfinished.
- You can use AI coding tools freely. You must be able to explain how.
Example ideas (pick one or bring your own)
- Food Waste Agent: reads a fridge photo or ingredient list, plans meals, and builds a shopping and expiry plan.
- Govt Scheme Finder: takes a person's details, finds schemes they qualify for, and checks eligibility and documents in simple language.
- Fake News Checker: takes a claim or forward, searches sources, cross-checks, and returns a verdict with citations.
- Study Coach: builds a plan from a syllabus, quizzes the student, and adapts to weak topics.
- Accessibility Helper: turns documents or web pages into simple text, audio, or local-language summaries.
- Energy/Bill Saver: analyzes a bill, finds waste, and suggests actions with estimated savings.
- Health Info Navigator: explains a medical report in plain language and flags what to ask a doctor.
- Campus/City Issue Reporter: turns a photo and location into a categorized complaint ready to send to the right authority.
Don't just tell us what your agent could do. Build it, deploy it, and show what it can do.
Submit code repositories, architecture decks, and demo videos remotely from anywhere.
Open to university students, professional software engineers, and indie builders.
Timed rounds with jury evaluation, architectural review, and live finale demos.
Cryptographically authenticated certificates with tamper-proof validation IDs.
📋 Eligibility & Participation Rules
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to currently enrolled students (UG, PG, diploma) from any recognized college or university in [India / region].
- Team size: 1 to 2 members.
- Each participant can be part of only one team.
- Teams may include members from different colleges or branches.
- Any branch is welcome. Coding experience with AI tools is enough, and you don't need to be an AI expert.
- Valid student ID may be required for verification.
- Employees or immediate family members of the organizing team cannot participate.
🏆 Grand Prize Pool
₹5000🤝 Strategic Sponsors
1 Partners
💬 Coordinator Helpdesk
Have questions regarding submissions, team formation, or technical criteria? Our hackathon coordinators respond promptly.
Submit Support Ticket →⚡ Multi-Stage Challenge Roadmap
This hackathon is governed by timed progression stages. Submissions for subsequent rounds open in designated windows upon prior stage evaluation.
Round 1: System Architecture & Prototype Submission
Submit your system architecture diagram, chosen problem statement track, and core prototype repository.
Round 2: Live Pitch & High-Load Demo Finale
Shortlisted teams deploy their solution live, demonstrate latency under load, and present to industry jury.
🎯 Problem Statements & Challenge Tracks
Review the detailed technical problem statement, target deliverables, and architecture requirements for each stage.
Autonomous App from one of the give examples
Problem Statement
Build a prototype/working app using AI, agentic tools, and cloud platforms that solves one real, everyday problem and makes life better for people around you.
The challenge
Millions of people lose time, money, health, or opportunities to problems that are small but constant: confusing paperwork, misinformation, wasted food, missed benefits, hard-to-understand information, and unresolved civic issues.
Your task: identify one such pain point and build an agent that can understand a goal, plan, use tools, take action, and verify the result.
Your agent must
- Target a specific user with a specific problem.
- Handle a task that normally takes a person 20–30+ minutes or specialist knowledge.
- Use at least 2 tools or services (search, APIs, database, file processing, code execution, maps, etc.).
- Produce something concrete and useful: a plan, report, checklist, draft complaint, verified answer, or generated file.
- Check its own output before presenting it.
- Show its steps in the UI: Plan → Tool calls → Result → Verification.
Focus areas (choose one or propose your own)
- Education & learning
- Health & wellbeing
- Sustainability & environment
- Food & waste reduction
- Misinformation & digital safety
- Accessibility & local-language access
- Civic services & government schemes
- Personal finance & savings
Deliverables
Live URL, source repository, 2–3 minute demo video, architecture, agent workflow, tech stack, models and tools used, and deployment details.
Remember: a small agent that truly works beats a big idea that doesn't.
Scaling & Hardening the Prototype
Continue your Round 1 solution by adding real-time streaming, rate limiting, and evaluation benchmarks. Prepare a 5-minute live pitch deck.
📢 Live Hackathon Updates & Organizer Broadcasts
Real-time updates, timeline extensions, mentor clinics, and jury deliberation notices for DevAgents 2026 — Student AI Engineering Challenge.
Official Round 1 Results & Shortlist Declared!
Jury deliberation is complete. Qualifying squads have been officially advanced to the next stage. Check your participant dashboard for stage guidelines.
👥 Teammate Matchmaker & Skills Directory Now Live
Solo hackers can now broadcast their skills (Frontend, Backend, AI/ML, Design) on the Teammates tab and request to join existing squads.
⚡ Problem Statement Tracks & Technical Guidelines Released
All challenge tracks, system architecture constraints, and jury evaluation rubrics have been officially certified. Read the Problem Statements tab carefully before architecting your MVP.
🎙️ Live AMA & Technical Clinic with Mentors Scheduled
Join our chief architect Dr. Aryan Saxena on Google Meet for a deep dive on LangGraph, multi-agent state machines, and prototype deployment tips.
👥 Teammate Matchmaker & Talent Discovery
Assemble your winning hackathon squad. Find developers, AI architects, frontend designers, and data scientists actively looking for teammates.
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Sign In / Register ↗🚀 Public Submissions Showcase & Community Voting
Explore working prototypes, live architectures, and interactive demos built during DevAgents 2026 — Student AI Engineering Challenge. Upvote your favorite innovation for the People's Choice Award!
AI-powered solution that addresses a meaningful environmental or societal challenge
🏆 Grand Prize Pool & Participant Perks
Official reward distribution, hiring fast-tracks, cloud partner credits, and verifiable credentials.
Universal Verified Participation Credential
All verified participants who submit a qualifying project receive an authenticated digital Certificate of Participation.
1-Click "Add to LinkedIn" Certified Credential
All qualifying squads receive a cryptographically signed credential that can be added to your LinkedIn profile in 1 click.
⚖️ Rules, Submission Terms & Code of Conduct
All registered candidates must adhere strictly to fair-play guidelines, originality standards, and intellectual integrity.
Rules & Guidelines
Build rules
- The project must be a working prototype. Figma files, slides, and screenshots alone are not accepted.
- The agent must do multi-step work: plan, call at least 2 tools or services (APIs, search, database, file or code execution, etc.), and produce a result.
- The agent must include a verification step (re-check sources, validate output, run tests, or confirm against data).
- The agent's steps (plan, tool calls, verification) must be visible in the UI.
- Deploy on a cloud platform with a live public URL (free tiers are fine).
- The project must be built during the hackathon period.
AI usage
- AI coding assistants, agentic editors, LLM APIs, open-source models, and agent frameworks are allowed and encouraged.
- Every team member must be able to explain how AI helped build the project and how AI works inside it.
- Do not hardcode or fake agent outputs in the demo.
Submission checklist
- Project name
- Problem statement (who is affected, and why it matters)
- Solution description
- Live demo URL
- Source-code repository (public, or access shared with judges)
- Short demo video (2–3 minutes, showing one clear before/after)
- System architecture diagram
- AI/agent workflow
- Tech stack
- AI models and tools used
- Cloud deployment details
Judging criteria
- Real-World Impact: does it solve a useful, everyday problem?
- Agentic Capability: does it plan, use tools, and verify?
- Working Prototype: does it actually work live?
- Innovation: is the idea creative and meaningful?
- Technical Implementation: is it well engineered?
- AI Utilization: is modern AI used meaningfully?
- Deployment & Engineering Quality: is it structured and deployed properly?
Tips to win
- Pick one narrow problem and make it work end to end.
- Deploy early, then polish.
- Show the agent "thinking" in the UI.
- Demo with a real person's real problem.
Fair play
- Original work only. Credit all open-source code, datasets, and APIs used.
- Plagiarism or copied projects lead to disqualification.
- The organizers' and judges' decisions are final.
Repositories must demonstrate progressive commit history. Projects with single bulk commits created prior to hackathon launch are ineligible.
AI copilot assistants and open-source npm/pip libraries are permitted provided core product logic and architecture are team-authored.
Submissions lock automatically at the deadline second. Late pull requests or email attachments cannot be accepted.
Participants retain 100% ownership and intellectual property of the applications and solutions they design and construct.
🏆 Official Winners & Hall of Fame
Celebrating top innovation, engineering excellence, and outstanding prototypes built during DevAgents 2026 — Student AI Engineering Challenge.
Saurabh Singh
📊 Full Official Leaderboard & Submissions
| Rank | Team / Hacker | Project Solution | Tech Stack | Stage | Score | Artifacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 |
Saurabh Singh
vewolor392@aminavin.com
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AI-powered solution that addresses a meaningful environmental or societal challenge
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Full Stack | Round 2 | 90 |
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Common queries regarding eligibility, submission windows, team dynamics, and awards.
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Round 2 and subsequent stages remain locked until their officially scheduled opening date. Only teams that successfully submit in Round 1 and advance through jury evaluation are unlocked to participate in the finale rounds.
Can I participate solo or is a team squad mandatory?
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