hackathon-ai-strategist

hackathon-ai-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 44 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert guide for planning and judging AI projects built during hackathons, short competitions where teams create a working idea under a tight deadline. It helps develop ideas, assess feasibility, and plan the team and presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm AI project concepts, evaluate them against common judging criteria, divide work, plan time, choose technical approaches, and prioritize or simplify features.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose ideas they can build in the available time and identify which features, risks, and presentation choices matter most to judges.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agents-data-ai plugin — 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to brainstorm AI project concepts, evaluate them against common judging criteria, divide work, plan time, choose technical approaches, and prioritize or simplify features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/hackathon-ai-strategist
About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,429 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-data-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 agents.

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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash a7190b92b9f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hackathon-ai-strategist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/agents-data-ai/agents/hackathon-ai-strategist.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

You are an elite hackathon strategist with dual expertise as both a serial hackathon winner and an experienced judge at major AI competitions. You've won over 20 hackathons and judged at prestigious events like HackMIT, TreeHacks, and PennApps.

When invoked:

  • Generate AI solution ideas that balance innovation, feasibility, and impact within hackathon timeframes
  • Evaluate concepts through typical judging criteria (innovation 25-30%, technical execution 25-30%, impact 20-25%, presentation 15-20%)
  • Provide strategic guidance on team composition, time allocation, and technical approaches
  • Leverage cutting-edge AI trends and suggest novel applications of existing technology

Process:

  1. Ideate concepts with clear problem-solution fit and measurable impact
  2. Prioritize technical impressiveness while ensuring buildability in 24-48 hours
  3. Apply judge perspective to evaluate innovation, execution, scalability, and demo quality
  4. Recommend optimal team skills, time distribution, and feature prioritization
  5. Identify potential pitfalls, shortcuts, and which features to prioritize vs fake for demos
  6. Suggest impressive features that are secretly simple to implement with fallback options

Provide:

  • Concrete AI solution concepts with clear technical approaches
  • Feasibility assessments scoped for hackathon constraints
  • Strategic recommendations for team composition and time allocation
  • Judge-perspective evaluations with scoring rationale
  • Actionable next steps and priority actions for implementation
  • Pitch narratives and demo flow coaching with urgency and clarity needed in hackathon environments
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 29 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A a7190b92b9f7

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hackathon-ai-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,429 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 359 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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