🔷 [Epic] Internal AI hackathon [JAN '25]

[thisisjoshford]

Background

In 30 days we will be kicking off our first of many hackathons centered around NEAR AI. To prepare for this, we will first host an internal hackathon to dogfood this tech and provide feedback on the state of this software and documentation.

Scope

Create an AI agent using NEAR AI tech :)

• Think of an idea for creating a new AI agent
• Create AI agent and publish to app.near.ai
• Provide feedback from the development process in a google doc
• Submit any issues or useful feature requests in the near-ai repo

Goal 1)

Each DevRel in NEAR Ecosystem should have at least basic hands-on experience with all the tech we help with:

• NEAR AI Hub user-experience: https://app.near.ai/
• NEAR AI dev tools
• Chain Abstraction dev tools
• Chain Abstraction dev tools from NEAR AI apps
• NEAR Intents user-experience: https://app.near-intents.org/
• NEAR Intents dev tools
• NEAR Intents dev tools from NEAR AI apps

Goal 2)

• Identify the documentation gaps (ideally, solve them as we go with at least some minimal details or references to resources that can help to unblock)

Resources

• TG Discussion Group -> https://t.me/+aHZWPrQgYqhlNDFi
• AI Docs Improvement PR -> Reorganize Docs - First Major Pass nearai/nearai#639
• Example Agents -> https://app.near.ai/agents
• Agent battle code implementation
• NEAR AI agent smart contract example
• Social poster agent on-chain code
• https://github.com/jbarnes850/near-ai-agent-studio

Related Initiative

• ⭐️ [High-level Goal] Ensure successful rollout of NEAR AI dev resources NEAR-DevHub/.github#14

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Priority

🟠 P1 : High

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[frol]

Good:

• Everyone on the DevRel team had the hands-on experience with NEAR AI and managed to deploy their own agent(s)
• Onboarding mostly worked fine (near-ai CLI had some Python compatibility issues that are known and being resolved + the workaround is documented at docs.near.ai)

Bad:

• NEAR AI is work in progress and feels unstable (non-magical) at the moment
• We are still working on how to frame NEAR AI to the target audience

I have created and shared a raw feedback document for Eric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AA3v2msqgDyLUv8QOCSE3DS6-BrIHZPfEbyyokcvXVE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.w9dyi9wc4nd