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Judging the HYDPY Agent Hackathon
Bilvantis Technologies, Hyderabad
Judging autonomous agent submissions at the HYDPY community hackathon — assessing tool design, termination behaviour, and whether the agents recovered from their own mistakes.
Hosted by Bilvantis Technologies for the HYDPY community, this hackathon asked teams to build agent-based solutions — which meant the judging criteria had to look past the demo.
What was assessed:
- Tool design. Are the schemas and descriptions good enough that the model picks the right tool, and do errors come back in a form it can act on?
- Termination. Does the loop stop, and does it stop for the right reason rather than hitting a step cap?
- Recovery. When a tool call fails — and one always does — does the agent recover or spiral?
- Honest scoping. Whether the agent was genuinely necessary, or whether a plain pipeline would have done the same job more reliably.
Several teams discovered the last point during the build, which was arguably the most valuable thing that happened all weekend.