Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon 2026 (judged by MCP co-creators from Anthropic)
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About this hackathon
A free four-week online hackathon from Symfony to stress-test Symfony AI and the official PHP MCP SDK before 1.0: build LLM apps, agents, RAG, or MCP servers and clients in PHP. Solo or in pairs; submit a public repository anyone can clone and run plus a 90-second video by Nov 22, 2026, 18:00 CET (Nov 23, 01:00 Beijing time). Judges include MCP co-creator David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky (Anthropic), Nico Martin (Hugging Face) and Brent Roose (PHP Foundation / JetBrains). Prizes are hardware and tickets, plus $20 of Hugging Face inference credits for every participant.
- Status
- Deadline
- 2026-11-22
- Starts
- 2026-10-26
- Who
- Open to all (Free and online; sign in with SymfonyConnect, solo or in pairs)
- Level
- Intermediate
- Prize
- Prizes in kind: a Bittle programmable robot dog (1st), a SymfonyCon 2027 VIP ticket or certification voucher (2nd), a LEGO Icons Retro Radio (3rd), a smart pixel clock and swag (4th); a one-year JetBrains All Products Pack for each top-3 team; $20 of Hugging Face inference credits for every participant
- Size
- —
- Format
- Online · International
- Location
- Paris (online; placed at organizer’s city)
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Original listing (Chinese)
The full original listing below is in Chinese, as published in the Hack123 newsletter.
一句话简介:PHP 框架 Symfony 官方办的四周线上黑客松,用 Symfony AI 和官方 PHP MCP SDK 做大模型应用、Agent、RAG 或 MCP 服务端/客户端,帮 1.0 正式版上线前找 bug。
看点:不限题目;评委是 MCP 联合作者 David Soria Parra 和 Den Delimarsky(Anthropic)、Hugging Face 的 Nico Martin、PHP 基金会理事 Brent Roose(JetBrains);评分看创意、能不能真跑起来、SDK 用得巧不巧、代码质量;交一个评委能 clone 下来直接跑的公开仓库和 90 秒视频;单人或两人一队;获奖名单在华沙 SymfonyCon 现场公布
奖金:实物奖,第一名可编程机器狗 Bittle,第二名 SymfonyCon 2027 VIP 门票或认证考试券,第三名乐高复古收音机,第四名像素时钟;前三名各送一年 JetBrains 全家桶;每人可领 Hugging Face 20 美元推理额度
截止日期:11月22日 18:00(中欧时间,北京时间 11月23日 01:00)提交截止(线上)
活动日期:2026年10月26日—11月22日(线上);11月26—27日华沙 SymfonyCon 颁奖
Summarized from the organizer’s page and public posts. Please confirm details on the official site before registering.