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Hackathon Playbook — Testing skill for Claude Code

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Agent skill for winning judged builds (hackathons, game jams, content challenges, take-homes): decode the event, kill-test ideas, build, verify, demo, and defend every decision.

How to install Hackathon Playbook

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open SidTheKid-dotcom/hackathon-playbook and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Hackathon Playbook does

Agent skill for winning judged builds (hackathons, game jams, content challenges, take-homes): decode the event, kill-test ideas, build, verify, demo, and defend every decision. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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README

hackathon-playbook

An agent skill for any build that someone judges: hackathons, game jams, content and creative challenges, and take-home assignments. It takes an AI coding agent from the event page to a submission it can defend.

It gives the agent a direction, a structure and a working philosophy, not a script:

Win on the criteria. Decode the rules, judges and past winners first. Then every hour moves a judging criterion.
Adapt to the medium. The agent finds out what entries in this event are made of (an app, a game, 3D, hardware, content, research), how the best work in that craft wins, and which tools it uses.
Never fake anything. Every number traces to a source. There is no mock data in the demo.
Show evidence, not "done". Tests that can fail, screenshots, measured numbers, live links.
Defaults, not cages. Every step has a reason. The agent scales the process to the request and the time left. Only seven hard rules never bend.

Set up with your agent

Copy and paste this into your agent:

Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SidTheKid-dotcom/hackathon-playbook/main/INSTALL.md and follow it to install the hackathon-playbook skill for me. Reuse an existing install if there is one, verify it loaded, then ask me for my event link.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode and other agents with a terminal. Prefer doing it yourself? See Install below.

Install

With the [skills CLI](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills), for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add SidTheKid-dotcom/hackathon-playbook

Or by hand. Clone it into your agent's skills folder:

git clone https://github.com/SidTheKid-dotcom/hackathon-playbook ~/.claude/skills/hackathon-playbook   # Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/SidTheKid-dotcom/hackathon-playbook ~/.agents/skills/hackathon-playbook   # agents that read ~/.agents/skills