hackathon

hackathon is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-plugins-official. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning workflow for running a hackathon, either by choosing work from a team's backlog or by planning open-ended creative projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose the format and duration, set a date, identify teams and participants, and optionally scan approved backlog sources.
Why use it?
It turns an informal hack day into a plan with projects, timing, participants, and a run of show.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the champion-kit plugin — 7 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose the format and duration, set a date, identify teams and participants, and optionally scan approved backlog sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon
About the project

Claude Code Plugins Directory is a marketplace containing plugins for Claude Code, including tools, commands, skills, agents, hooks, and model context servers. Claude Code users browse it to install Anthropic-maintained or approved third-party extensions.

anthropics/claude-plugins-official · 46,323 stars · on GitHub · code.claude.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.

Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/claude-plugins-official --skill hackathon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install champion-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for hackathon

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for hackathon

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/hackathon.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,375 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 $0.00040 $0.02375
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00950
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00237

Measured today against content hash 429be605f285, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hackathon 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 today.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • hackathon — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/champion-kit/skills/hackathon/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start here

Say in one line what you'll make: a hackathon plan with projects, a run of show, and an invite, built from your backlog or as open-ended creative play.

What the champion typed after the command, if anything: $ARGUMENTS

If that's blank, run the guided flow below. If it has text, or they already told you some of this, use what it answers and ask only for what's still missing.

Then ask:

  1. What kind of hackathon? Use AskUserQuestion with "From our backlog" and "Open-ended creative play". Mark neither as recommended, and ask this one even after "go".
  2. How long? Use AskUserQuestion with "Two hours" (recommended), "Half a day", and "A full day".
  3. When is it? A plain question. The default is next Friday.
  4. Which teams? A plain question, with no default.
  5. About how many people? A plain question. The default is about ten.
  6. For the backlog only: what can I read? Use AskUserQuestion with "Not yet" (recommended), "Scan this repo for TODOs and skipped tests", and "Scan the repo and read open issues with gh". Read nothing for the backlog until the champion picks a read. With "Not yet", ask them to name a few backlog items instead.

Creative play needs no repo, so read nothing for it.

How to ask: one question at a time, or a small batch of related choices, and wait for the answer before you go on. When the answer is one of a few options, use the AskUserQuestion tool with up to four options, the recommended or most common one first. If AskUserQuestion isn't available, give the same options as a short numbered list and wait for the answer. Ask a plain question only when the answer is open, such as a goal or team names, and suggest a default. When a question asks how someone works or what score fits, mark no option as recommended. A consent question, about reading through git, gh, chat, or a connector, or about writing a file, puts the safe choice, such as "Not yet", first as the recommended one. A pick counts as a yes only for the exact read or write it names. If the champion says "go", list the defaults you'll take for the remaining questions, then take them, but still stop at every consent question. A default never counts as a yes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

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. today First seen · 84 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 429be605f285

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hackathon is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-plugins-official (46,323 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,375 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-07.

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