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Hedera x Claude Code AI Skills for Hackathon Builders I Luke Forrest

ETHGlobalSat, May 9, 2026, 12:00 AM

In this workshop, Luke Forrest from Hedera introduces a suite of AI plugins, skills, and MCP servers built specifically to help hackathon builders develop on Hedera using Claude Code. The repo includes five plugins: the Hedera Agent Kit for AI agent interactions like transferring HBAR and creating tokens, the Dev Intelligence plugin for project scaffolding and session management, the Hackathon Helper with PRD generation and submission validation skills, the Native Services plugin for Hedera Token Service and Consensus Service integration, and the System Contracts plugin for HTS system contracts. Luke does a live install of the Hackathon Helper plugin in Claude Code and demonstrates the PRD skill by generating a project plan for a token-gated event check-in app. He also covers Hedera's MCP integration through their Mintlify-powered docs site for seamless documentation access. The session wraps up with an overview of hackathon bounties across AI and agentic payments, tokenization, native services, and the Nario IO data sourcing tool for cross-ledger data correlation. 00:00 Introduction 00:02 Overview of Hedera Plugins, Skills, and MCP Servers 00:35 Hedera Agent Kit Plugin 01:09 Dev Intelligence and Hackathon Helper Plugins 01:32 Native Services and System Contracts Plugins 01:56 Hackathon Helper: PRD and Validate Submission Skills 02:47 Live Install of the Hackathon Helper Plugin 05:15 Live Demo: Generating a Hackathon PRD 07:01 PRD Walkthrough: HCS, HTS, and MVP Features 08:15 Hedera MCP Integration via Mintlify Docs 08:59 Hackathon Bounties Overview 10:29 Nario IO: Cross-Ledger Data Sourcing 11:12 Closing Remarks _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *ETHGlobal Cannes 2026* This workshop is specifically for ETHGlobal Cannes 2026, a 3-day hackathon held April 3-5 at the Palace of Festivals and Congresses of Cannes, bringing together the most skilled web3 developers, designers and product builders from all around the globe for a weekend-long adventure to advance the Ethereum ecosystem! Watch the full ETHGlobal Cannes 2026 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzKMXK2aHh5YrcvSj6KSTztLMy58d7d4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ✅ *Follow ETHGlobal* X: https://x.com/ETHGlobal​ Website: https://ethglobal.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ETHGlobal _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Are you interested in Ethereum development and entrepreneurship?_ 👉 Sign up for the next ETHGlobal event: https://ethglobal.com/events 🎁 Get exclusive access and perks with ETHGlobal Plus! https://ethglobal.com/plus 📣 Want us to throw an event in your city? Tell us where! https://ethglobal.com/city _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Transcript

Hi everyone, I'm Luke Forest from the Hashgraph developer relations team. I'm one of the judges for Hadera today. Um, so first question, quick show of hands. Who's currently using Cortut? Cool.

And keep them up now. if you are currently using plugins skills and MTP cell. Great. So what we have built for you to help you build on Hideera um is some plugins, skills and MCP servers. So, if you scan this QR code now, this will take you to the repo that we've built for you, which actually has uh five plugins for you to utilize.

Oh, sorry. There you go. Go back. Cool. Wait for everyone to be done.

Great. So, within this repo, we have five plugins for you. Uh we've got the Hideera uh agent kit plugin. This uh integrates seamlessly with our agent kit framework. Uh so if you're building AI agents and need to transfer H bar uh create tokens or read onchain data that will really help you out.

Uh we've got our dev intelligence plugin as well which contains three skills. The project scaffolding quality gates and sess sorry session management. Uh the project scaffolding will help you build out your project and scaffold it out. Uh the hackathon helper as well. We'll touch on that a little bit more in a second because this is our main plugin that will really help you out if you're building on Hyera today.

Uh the native services uh plugin as well which contains two skills. The Hideera token service and the Hideera consensus service skills which will help you integrate seamlessly with Hideera's SDKs. Uh we also have the system contracts uh plugin as well uh which contains the HTS system contract. So if you're minting tokens um or if you're using the schedule service um so now for the hackathon helper skill effectively what this contains is two skills. the hackathon PRD which will help you build out your idea.

If you're building something on Hideera, run this skill first. If you're looking to uh build a particular item, this will help you out in a big way. It contains a lot of our judging criteria as well. So, it will help you build out your project in a way that will score the highest on Hideera. We also have the validate submission skill.

Uh this is a huge skill. So once you've built out your MVP, once you're ready to uh bring it to the judging, run it through this first and this will validate your idea. It will check to make sure that you've integrated Hideera properly. Um and it will really help you out. So we're going to do a live install as well.

I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with how to install uh the plugin on Hideera. Bear with me two seconds and I'll bring it up for you. Okay, great. So, I've actually got my split screen here, so it's a bit hard for me to see, but I will try it anyway. So, it's super easy to install.

Let's just plug in marketplace add aera deva skills. That look right to you or have I messed that up massively?

What's that?

Oh, 2Ds and hideera.

Tell me when I've gone back enough.

Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.

There. Keep going.

Oh, wow. So, I really messed up. Yeah. Okay.

So, where am I now? H

H E E R A. There we go.

Cool. So, hopefully that works.

What's that? Oh, no. Hang on. One sec. Let's change to high screen.

Start mirroring. Cool. That's a bit better. Cool. So I run that in claude not in your CLI.

Uh so that's installed now. So you can see here we've installed the marketplace. You got the Hideera skills marketplace which contains all of those plugins that we just spoke about including the hackathon helper here. We go ahead and install that and reload plugins. Cool.

So, has anyone got an idea of what they want to build on Hideera? That we can then use to pass through that initial PRD skill? If not, I do have one that we can use. No. Cool.

Bear with me. See a second. So you can speak to it in natural language. Well, this here is going to create a hackathon PRD for a token gated event check-in app where attendees can get HTS tokens for session attendance and unlock tiered perks with an organizer dashboard powered by the Hideera Mirror Node. So, this will now bring us through multiple questions here and talk to us in natural language as well.

Can everyone see? Okay. Is that big enough for you? You can see there it's asking what we're going to be using on Hideera which is HCS and HTS. HCS is Hideera consensus service uh which is an immutable record of events using topics completely fair or ordered no front running.

Um now it is asking team composition, how many people, ro skills, top three to five MVP features. Um we just say choose any. This is a really basic idea here that we can choose from. And this should go away now and build out the uh PRD document. And from there you can scaffold out your idea.

Is that Oh, close to the mic. Okay, there we go. Um, so you can see now it take a few seconds to run through that. Um, and while it's doing that, I can take through the rest of the presentation. Um, so now that that's installed and running through, we also have an MCP as well.

So we recently migrated our docs to Mintify, which has an MCP installed on it. So if you scan that document, it will take you to the Hideera do site and tell you how to install that. Uh super easy to install. All you need to do is run claude mcp add transport http this command here. And that will also be on that HeraDoc site as well.

Um which will allow you to integrate seamlessly with our doc site. So if you're using the PRD or the hackathon helper plugin as well as the validator, the PRD uh generator, this will help you out massively. So, any questions regarding those plugins or the MCP or Hideera in general? No. Cool.

Um, so just to recap our bounties, we have AI and Aentic payments. So that's 6,000 total prize pool for that split along two winners. Uh, we also have tokenization on Hideera uh, which is 1,250 each. Two winners there. No solidity allowed.

So, Hideera SDKs only, no smart contracts. Um, so native services only. There's three winners for that one, $1,000 each. Uh, we also have the IO builders Nario uh bounty as well, which is split between three people. First place is $2,000 and $750 between the two runner-ups.

So, good luck everyone and enjoy the weekend.

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