Nov 20th - Dec 11th

Directus MCP Hackathon

Build a fun Directus project or community template with our native MCP and compete for over $2k in cash, prizes including 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboards, and awesome swag.

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Challenge 1

Build a Project with MCP

Build a cool Directus project with MCP. Completely open-ended. Build a tool that solves a real problem, experiment with something new, whatever inspires you.

Challenge 2

Ship a Community Template

Use MCP to build a reusable template that other developers can grab and run with. Think helpful starter projects or boilerplates that showcase what's possible with MCP.

The Prize Situation

The winners for each challenge will receive:

8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard

8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard

for each team member (up to 4 keyboards per team)

$1,000 USD

$1,000 USD

per winning project

Directus Swag Pack

Directus Swag Pack

for each team member

The Full Details

Here's the nitty gritty details for the MCP Hackathon.

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Timeline

The hackathon starts Thursday November 20th, 2025 and ends on Thursday Dec 11th, 2025.

Judging criteria

Our judges will be considering:

  • Does the submission use Directus MCP? (required)
  • How does the entry utilize Directus MCP?
  • Does the submission demonstrate creativity and a well thought out project or template?

Teams

Teams can be between 1-4 people, if you are looking for any team mates, the community forum is the best place to connect to other Directus users.

Prizes

One winning project will be picked per category and win $1,000, Directus swag (sticker pack, hoodie & socks per team member) & a 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard - N Edition per team member.

How to participate

To enter, you’ll need to register by filling out the short registration form, this lets us know what team’s you’re in and lets us send you mentor hours invites should you want to drop in and get assistance.

❗Hackathon submissions need to be submitted by 11th December 11:59pm (EST) via a post on the forum with the tag mcp-hackathon and if you're entering the template challenge, will need to include a submitted template via GitHub as well. ❗

Resources to get started

Submission details

Each submission post will need to have an individual topic tagging ‘mcp-hackathon’ with the following details:

  • Project name
  • Project description
  • Challenge entered
  • Team details
  • Technical details
  • Starting point details
  • Demo video of no more than 5 minutes (can be linked or uploaded)

Previous Hackathon Winners

StackSync Panel

This panel contains four distinct sets of data from a Paystack account, allowing you to handle tasks such as customer management, product management, and payment requests directly from your Directus dashboard.

Flow Runner Panel

This extension brings manual flows from multiple collections together into a convenient panel or split them into several panels. It uses the flows endpoint and native components to provide the same functionality such as flow confirmation dialogs.  

Media AI Bundle

This extension includes two new operations for flows. The first will describe what is in an image using AltText.ai or AWS Rekognition. The other operation will extract text so it can be used in your automations.

Directus Copilot

This panel extension allows users to ask contextual information about their data with a Directus Insights dashboard.