Dates

Registration opens: 28 July 2026

Hacking begins: 28 July 2026, 00:00 IST

Submissions close: 11 August 2026, 23:59 IST

Judging: 12 to 13 August 2026

Winners announced: 20 August 2026

The hackathon runs for 15 days. All times are India Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30).

Late submissions are not accepted. The deadline is hard.

Eligibility

Open to everyone: students, working professionals, and independent developers.

- You must be 18 years or older at the time of entry.

- Teams of 1 or 2. Solo entries are welcome.

- Inter-college, inter-company, and inter-country teams are allowed.

- One submission per team. You may not enter as part of more than one team.

- No prior experience with Caspian is required.

- Employees of Caspian and SAASDEN, INC., their immediate family members, and

  anyone involved in judging are not eligible to win prizes. They may

  participate for fun.

- Entrants must not be residents of, or located in, any country or region

  subject to comprehensive sanctions or embargoes.

- Where local law prohibits participation in skill-based contests, you are not

  eligible.

Project and Submission Requirements

WHAT TO BUILD

Build any AI agent you want. Any domain, ing to tell

you what to build.

One rule makes it qualify: your agent must use caspian-sdk and run on at least

two supported channels through a single mg your

handler once per channel does not count.

Supported channels are listed at https://www.trycaspianai.com/docs/

WHAT TO SUBMIT

1. A public GitHub repository. It must be public at the time of submission and

   remain public through judging.

2. A demo video, three minutes or less, hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Loom and

   publicly accessible. The video must shning on at

   least two channels. Mocked, staged, or edited-to-look-working demos are not

   judged.

REQUIREMENTS

- All code must be written during the hacen-source

  libraries, frameworks, and models are allowed and encouraged.

- AI coding assistants are allowed.

- Your project must be your own work. Do not submit someone else's project.

- Your submission must be in English.

- Include any setup instructions needed to run your project.

OWNERSHIP

You retain full ownership of everything you build. Caspian claims no rights to

your code. By submitting, you grant us peroject

publicly with credit to you.