Resilient Agents – Online Hackathon
TrueFoundry
📌About the Event
Resilient Agents – Online Hackathon is a one-week AI hackathon hosted by TrueFoundry with support from AWS Bedrock. Participants have to build an AI agent that can continue working even when real-world failures happen, such as rate limits, slow model responses, provider outages, tool failures, or broken model calls
ℹ️ Event Details
- Mode of Conduct: Online
- Hosted By: TrueFoundry
- Supported By: AWS Bedrock
- Communication Platform: Discord
- Meeting Platform: The event page lists Google Meet for the hackathon.
- Main Challenge: Build a resilient AI agent using TrueFoundry AI Gateway, AWS Bedrock, MCP Gateway, and Guardrails.
- What Participants Will Build: An agent that can handle failures like rate limits, model outages, slow responses, tool failures, bad intermediate outputs, and cascading errors.
📅 Important Dates
- Kickoff Date: June 1, 2026
- Kickoff Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time
- India time: June 1, 2026, 10:30 PM IST
- Submission Deadline: June 8, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
- Duration: One week
🎯 Eligibility & Rules
- Eligibility: Open to participants interested in AI agents, LLM apps, and production-ready AI systems. No student-only or country-specific restriction is clearly mentioned on the official page.
- Rules: Participants must register online and join the official Discord channel for updates and submission details. The project should focus on building a resilient AI agent that can handle failures like slow responses, outages, rate limits, or tool errors.
- Evaluation Process: Entries will be judged on resilience, usefulness, technical implementation, guardrails, fallback handling, and demo clarity.
🏆 Prize Details and Value
- First Place: $3,000 cash + $1,000 TrueFoundry credits + $1,000 AWS Bedrock credits
- Second Place: $2,000 cash + $500 TrueFoundry credits + $500 AWS Bedrock credits
- Third Place: $1,000 cash + $500 TrueFoundry credits + $500 AWS Bedrock credits
- Best Social Media Prize: $1,000 cash for the post or thread with the most relevant impressions covering the hackathon and TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
- Total Prize Value: Up to $11,000 including cash and credits.