agentfield Day: The Autonomous Backend AI Hackathon

​Chatbots are frontend. The interesting question is: what happens when AI moves into your backend?

​Not a copilot. Not a chat widget. A reasoning layer that sits alongside your services - making decisions that used to be hardcoded, replacing brittle if-else chains with logic that actually understands context.

​AgentField is infrastructure for this. Agents that share memory without Redis. Agents that find each other without service registries. Just Python/typescript functions - no DAGs, no YAML, no workflow definitions.

​Come build something that belongs in a backend, not a chat window.

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The Workshop:

​In one hour, you'll build a system where multiple agents research a topic in parallel, share what they find, and go deeper where it matters.

​Not by wiring up message queues. Not by defining DAG configs. You'll write Python (or typescript) functions, and the coordination just happens.

• ​Reasoners - Functions where AI makes decisions
• ​Skills - Functions where code does the work
• ​Memory - State that flows between agents automatically
• ​Discovery - Agents call each other by name, routing happens

​By the end, you'll have a working deep research system - the same pattern that powers everything from due diligence pipelines to adaptive content generation.

​Want to try it before the hackathon? Join our Discord - ask questions, get help if you get stuck, or just say hi.

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What makes this different:

• ​Memory without infrastructure - Memory that works across all your agents. No Redis, no Postgres, no config.
• ​Agents find each other - Discovery engine routes automatically. No service registry setup.
• ​Reasoners vs Skills - AI decides, code executes. Clean separation that's easy to test and reason about.
• ​Just simple - No workflow DSLs. No DAG definitions. Write functions, decorate them, done.

​The Challenge:

​Rethink what AI applications look like after the chatbot.

​The chatbot was AI-as-interface: human inputs, AI responds. The AI backend is AI-as-infrastructure: agents that make decisions, share context, and do work - whether a human is watching or not.

​Build the application that exists on the other side of that shift.

​🏆 Prizes:

​$2,000 USD in OpenRouter credits:

• ​1st Place: $1,000
• ​2nd Place: $600
• ​3rd Place: $400

​⚡ Agenda:

• ​10:00 AM - Kickoff + Workshop: From Hello World to Deep Research
• ​10:30 AM - Team formation + hacking begins
• ​12:00 PM - Lunch
• ​3:30 PM - Hacking ends / Live demos (3 min per team)
• ​4:30 PM - Winners announced
• ​5:00 PM - Close

​Who should come:

• ​You've built chatbots and want to build something deeper
• ​You're curious what AI looks like when it's not a UI feature
• ​You want to replace some hardcoded logic with reasoning
• ​You just like building things

​Python or TypeScript. No agent experience needed.

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How we'll judge:

1. ​New problem space - Is this AI-as-infrastructure in a domain we haven't seen? Show us something beyond chatbots.
2. ​Replaced complexity - Did you simplify an architecture that was previously a mess of services, queues, or hardcoded rules? Does it make sense cost-wise?
3. ​High leverage - Either high volume (worth automating) or high stakes (worth reasoning about). Bonus if both.
4. ​Previously impossible - Does this enable something that couldn't exist before? Not just faster or cheaper - genuinely new.

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💡 What could you build?

• ​Pricing that adapts in real-time - Considers inventory, demand, and competition (for example) simultaneously. Reasoning and autonomous, not rules.
• ​Supply chain that coordinates - Shortage detected, alternatives evaluated, routes recalculated, alerts sent.
• ​Code Security Review for PR - Every PR launching and finding complex security threats and patterns that are non-trivial

​Build something we haven't thought of here, and you have your own startup at hand !

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📚 Resources:

• ​Docs: agentfield.ai/docs
• ​GitHub: github.com/Agent-Field/agentfield
• ​Discord: Join to prep and find teammates
• ​Deep Research Guide: Build your first system
• ​Blog: The AI Backend

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🤝 Hosts:

• ​AgentField - Backend infrastructure layer for autonomous AI.
• ​AI Builders - Community of engineers building the future of AI.

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⚠️ Limited spots. Register now.

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