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Take an AI agent you already use, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and Antigravity, connect it to Slack, Teams, Discord and Telegram with Switch, and build a workflow where it gets real work done with your teammates.
Looking for a team, or stuck on setup? The WeMakeDevs Discord is open for the whole event.
Registration
One moment. Pulling up this hackathon.
Star the Switch repo for a chance to win a Keychron keyboard.
Members
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Room
Works with Slack · Microsoft Teams · Discord · Mattermost
01 / The challenge
Build a workflow where an AI agent and the people in a team chat get a real task done together.
An AI agent
One you already use is fine
Your team
In Slack, Teams, Discord or Mattermost
Switch
Connects the two
A real task, done
Shipped, fixed, reviewed
Meet Switch
Open source infrastructure for putting AI agents into team chat. Every channel becomes a room, and agents join it like any other teammate.
Your team chat
Each channel becomes a room, and agents show up in it with their own name and avatar.
Room
A shared log of messages, instructions, roles, tasks and knowledge. Every person and agent in the channel reads from the same one.
Agent protocol. Server-sent events in, HTTP out. Any agent that speaks it can join a room, whatever it was built with.
Your agents
agents: - name: "{team}-triager" description: Reads reports, files and routes them addressing: anyone provider: "{provider}" instructions: | You are the triager of a small team. For each report: 1. Restate it in one line. 2. Decide whether it is a bug, a question, or a request. 3. Bugs go to the reproducer, by name. - name: "{team}-repro" description: Reproduces what the triager routes to it addressing: owner-agents provider: "{provider}" instructions: | Write the smallest script that shows the problem, run it, and report back in the same thread with the exact output.room: name: "{team}-triage" bridge: "{bridge}" agents: ["{team}-triager", "{team}-repro"] users: ["{$creator}"]kickoff: | @{team}-triager and @{team}-repro: this is your triage room.02 / Prizes
Total prize pool
$5,500
Cash across the three tracks and Code with Wispr, plus AirPods 5 for the best blog, Logitech mechanical keyboards for the best #HowISwitch posts, swag for 20 projects picked at random, and a certificate for everyone who submits.
Track 01
$2,000
Best Business Workflow
For the most practical workflow where people and AI agents get work done.
Track 02
$2,000
Best Personal or Creative Workflow
For the best use of Switch and AI agents on everyday tasks, personal projects or creative ideas.
Track 03
$100 × 10
Best Core Contribution
For the top 10 pull requests to Switch's open source core.
Side track
$500
Code with Wispr
For the best project built by voice with Wispr Flow. Submit your Wispr usage scorecard with it.
Side track
AirPods 5
Best Blog
For the best blog post about building with Switch.
Top 5 posts
Logitech keyboard
#HowISwitch
Share your build on social media with #HowISwitch. The top 5 posts each get a Logitech mechanical keyboard shipped to them.
Swag. 20 project submissions, picked at random, get swag shipped to them.
Certificate. Every project gets a certificate, win or not.
Winning projects are also showcased across the Switch, WeMakeDevs and DevTools Academy channels.
03 / Tracks
Three tracks, for builders and contributors alike. Code with Wispr and Best Blog are open to everyone on top of them.
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.
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.
Make Switch itself better.
Improve Switch's core open source functionality through a meaningful code contribution. This could include new capabilities, performance improvements, reliability, or developer experience. There are issues created for integrations and extensions too. The top 10 pull requests win $100 each. See how to get an issue assigned.
Write the best blog post about your build.
Publish a blog post about building with Switch. The best post wins a pair of AirPods 5. Walk through what you made, how you set it up and what you learned along the way. You can enter this alongside a track or on its own.
Build your Switch project by voice.
Use Wispr Flow to speak your prompts, agent instructions and docs instead of typing them. The best project built by voice wins $500. Enter it alongside any track.
Get 1 month of Wispr Flow Pro freeCloses #number.Rules
04 / Judging
How the tracks are judged
Every submission
Reviewed by WeMakeDevs
Shortlist
Put together by WeMakeDevs
Finalists
Judged by Switch, DevTools Academy and WeMakeDevs
Judged on their own terms
05 / FAQ
All of them are on the Resources tab: the quickstart, Switch Console, the docs, the agent protocol, worked examples and where to get help. If you open only one link, make it the quickstart, which gets an agent answering you in a chat channel in about ten minutes.
From November 4, 12:01 AM IST to November 7, 11:59 PM IST. Submissions close at 11:59 PM IST on November 7. The kickoff live stream is earlier, on November 2 at 3:30 PM UK time. The schedule tab shows it in your own time zone.
Anyone, from anywhere. It is free to enter, and you can take part solo or in a team of up to four.
A workflow in a team chat where at least one AI agent and one person get a real task done together, connected through Switch. You don't have to build a chatbot or a new agent from scratch, because Switch works with agents that already exist.
Yes. Switch has to be central to your project, and your README should show how you used it.
No. Switch is open source and free to self-host, including on your own laptop. You bring your own AI agent, so you will need a subscription or an API key for whichever one you use.
Switch Console, which is the desktop app, Docker to run Switch on your own machine, and an AI coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode. The quickstart takes about ten minutes. Console runs on macOS, with Windows and Linux builds in early access.
No. When you run Switch on your own machine it comes with Mattermost, a free chat app, so you can build and record your demo without access to any company workspace. Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Telegram can be connected whenever you want them.
Any of them. Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode work out of the box through Switch Console, and custom agents built with LangChain, Google ADK, OpenAI or anything else can join through the agent protocol.
Yes, and we want you to. Existing agents, libraries and templates are fine. The Switch setup and the workflow your agents run need to be built during the hackathon.
Yes. You should understand what you submit and be able to explain how it works.
Yes. You can build a workflow, send pull requests to Switch's core and publish a blog post in the same hackathon. Code with Wispr and Best Blog are open on top of any track.
In the WeMakeDevs Discord. The Switch, WeMakeDevs and DevTools Academy teams are there for the whole event.
This event is hosted by WeMakeDevs and DevTools Academy.