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Agent Arena 2026

Build real multi-agent AI systems.

Top prize
₹20,000
Tracks
3 to choose from
Registration closes
17 Oct 2026
Where
Fully online
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Agent Arena 2026

About this hackathon

Welcome to the Agent Arena 2026.

This is a build challenge for people who want to build a genuine agentic AI system, not a demo. You pick one of three tracks and build a complete, working system for it:

  • DeepDive — a self-verifying research analyst that checks every claim against its source.
  • FinPilot — a proactive financial agent that forecasts, simulates decisions, and intervenes.
  • CreatorOS — a self-improving content studio that learns from how its content performed.

All three tracks are the same level of difficulty and are judged on the same scale, so it does not matter which you pick — it matters how real your system is.

What every track rewards is the same backbone: multiple cooperating agents (not one giant prompt), a real loop where the system checks or improves its own work, an auditable trail of why it made each decision, and your own measurement of whether it actually works. A system that genuinely does these things beats a feature-complete shell every time.

Mesh API is the official sponsor, and using it is mandatory. Every LLM/AI call in your project must route through Mesh API, an OpenAI-compatible gateway that gives you access to many models through one key.

Submissions are first screened by an automated system that reads your code, and the strongest submissions are then reviewed by human judges.


Terms & Conditions

  • Submissions are first screened by an automated AI system that evaluates your code, and the top submissions are then reviewed by human judges.
  • Using Mesh API is mandatory. A submission that does not route its LLM/AI calls through Mesh API will not be considered a valid submission.
  • The decisions of the judges are final.

How you're judged

  1. 1

    Multi-agent orchestration

  2. 2

    The track's core loop — the system checking or improving its own work

  3. 3

    Core domain capability of your track

  4. 4

    Supporting domain capability of your track

  5. 5

    Foundation, data model and real ingestion

  6. 6

    Self-evaluation — your own test set and measured numbers

  7. 7

    Auditable decision trail

  8. 8

    Code quality and reproducibility

Ready to build?

Registering takes a minute and costs nothing. You get the submission checklist, the checks that run on your repo, and a place to submit when you are done.

Agent Arena 2026

Registration closes 17 Oct 2026

Register free