Flip the Switch Hackathon

Turn your solo agent into a teammate

Build a workflow where an AI agent and the people in a team chat get a real task done together.

• Problem

  AI agents work alone. You have one in your terminal, your teammate has a different one in theirs, and your company might run a custom one on a server. None of them can see what the others did, so people end up copying and pasting between windows.

• Shift

  Switch connects those agents to the chat app your team already uses. Each agent shows up in a channel like any other teammate, and anyone can tag it with a task. The room keeps the history, the rules, the tasks, and the decisions, so nobody has to explain things twice.

• Brief

  Add at least one AI agent to a team chat using Switch, and build a workflow where the agent and the people in that chat get a real task done together. You can use an agent you already have.

Four tracks, for builders and contributors alike. You can enter more than one, and Best Blog is open to everyone on top of them.

• Track 01

  Best Business Workflow

  Help people and AI agents get work done.

  Build a practical workflow using Switch to help people and AI agents get work done. Open to technical and nontechnical participants, with any combination of people, agents, and rooms.

  Prize to be announced

• Track 02

  Best Personal or Creative Workflow

  Switch for everyday life and creative work.

  Show how you use Switch and AI agents to simplify everyday tasks, manage personal projects, or bring creative ideas to life.

  Prize to be announced

• Track 03

  Best Core Contribution

  Make Switch itself better.

  Improve Switch's core open source functionality through a meaningful code contribution: new capabilities, performance, reliability, or developer experience. Get an issue assigned to you before you write code: the steps are below.

  $100 each for the top 10 pull requests

• Track 04

  Best Integration or Extension

  Connect Switch to more of the world.

  Build an integration or extension that makes Switch more useful by connecting new agents, tools, frameworks, or services.

  Prize to be announced

• Side track

  Best Blog

  Write the best blog post about your build.

  Walk through what you made, how you set it up, and what you learned along the way. Enter it alongside a track or on its own.

  AirPods 5 for each of the top 5 posts

• A certificate for every project, win or not
• Swag shipped to the top 20 #HowISwitch posts
• Winning projects showcased across DevTools Academy and Switch channels

1. 01Every submission is reviewed, and a shortlist is put together.
2. 02Finalists are judged by a joint panel from DevTools Academy, Switch, and WeMakeDevs.

Side tracks

• Best Core Contribution: The 10 most useful, best-built pull requests.
• Best Blog: Clarity, accuracy, and how much it helps a first-time Switch user.

• A public project repository
• A short demo video of your workflow running
• A README that explains how you used Switch: which agents you connected, how the channel is set up, and how to run it
• Optional: a blog post about the build, which also enters you in Best Blog

1. Open now

   Registration open

   Register, star the Switch repo, and join the Discord. Add teammates any time before submissions close.

2. Mon, Nov 2, 9:00 PM GMT+5:30

   Kickoff live stream

   Switch, the tracks, the rules, and how to get set up, two days before hacking begins.

3. Wed, Nov 4, 12:01 AM GMT+5:30

   Hacking begins

   Start building. Support is on Discord the whole way through.

4. Sat, Nov 7, 11:59 PM GMT+5:30

   Submissions close

   Submit your repo, demo video, and README before the deadline.

5. Early November

   Judging

   Submissions are shortlisted, then the joint panel picks the winners.

6. To be announced

   Winners announced

   Announced by DevTools Academy and Switch, with the best projects showcased across their channels.

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You don’t need any Switch experience. Follow these steps to go from an empty machine to a working room.

1. 01Install SwitchDownload Switch Console and run Switch on your machine with Docker. It comes with Mattermost, so you need no company workspace.
2. 02Connect your first agentClaude Code, Codex, and OpenCode work out of the box. Custom agents join through the agent protocol.
3. 03Create a roomA room keeps the history, rules, tasks, and decisions that people and agents share.
4. 04Build your workflow and submitFollow the payments room example from an empty channel to a working room, then submit your repo, demo video, and README.

Let an agent walk you through it

The Switch docs are served over MCP. Connect your coding agent and ask it “How do I get started with Switch?”

• Claude Code
  claude mcp add switch-docs --transport http https://docs.switchagents.ai/mcp
• Codex
  codex mcp add switch-docs --url https://docs.switchagents.ai/mcp

Switch is the open-source layer that brings any AI agent into the chat tools a team already uses, where people and agents share rooms, context, and tasks.

• Any agent, any model, your stack

  Use the agents, models, and frameworks you choose, with no lock-in to a single AI ecosystem.

• Bring what you've already built

  Connect existing agents built with Claude Code, Codex, OpenAI, Google ADK, LangChain, MCP/HTTP, and more. Nothing to migrate and nothing to rebuild.

• Agents where work already happens

  Agents join shared rooms in Slack, Teams, Mattermost, and Discord, so nobody has to move into another standalone AI interface.

• Persistent, shared context

  Rooms keep history, rules, tasks, and decisions, so people and agents carry on across sessions instead of starting from zero.

• Open source and self-hostable

  Start in minutes, extend Switch for your own stack, and stay in control of how and where it runs.

As the agent ecosystem fragments, a company shouldn't have to bet on a single vendor, model, or harness. Switch is the open collaboration layer that lets a team choose what works and change as the market changes.

Switch ships no agents and no models, and it doesn't replace your chat app. You keep the tools you already run, and Switch connects them.

Built something with Switch? Share it on social media with #HowISwitch: the top 20 posts get swag shipped to them. A blog post about your build also enters you in Best Blog.

• Creator-driven promotion

  Developer creators from our network bring builders to the event before and during the hackathon.

• Judging panel

  DevTools Academy sits on the panel that picks the winners, with Switch and WeMakeDevs.

• Winner showcase

  We feature the winning projects across DevTools Academy channels after the event.