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Hedera x Claude Code: AI Skills for Hackathon Builders | Luke Forrest

ETHGlobalSun, Aug 9, 2026, 12:00 AM

In this short workshop at ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026, Luke Forrest from Hedera walks hackathon builders through Claude Code and the skills that can help them move faster over the weekend, covering plugins, skills, and the Hedera MCP server that connects Claude to Hedera's docs for maximum context. He points to the Hedera skills repo on GitHub (via a QR code also shown at the booth), which contains five skills, and focuses on the main one, the hackathon helper, which has two key sub-skills. Hackathon PRD is a skill you talk to about your idea so it fleshes it out, recommends the best way to implement Hedera, and produces a full product requirement document you can then build from with Claude. Validate submission runs once your project is ready, inspecting your repo and judging it much as the Hedera team will (looking at your Hedera integration and whether it is strong enough to be judged accurately) against criteria like innovation, feasibility, execution, integration, validation success, and the Sunday pitch. Luke shows how easy installation is (adding the hedera-dev skills marketplace and reloading plugins), noting you do not even call the skill directly, just ask Claude to create a hackathon PRD for your idea and paste in the ETHGlobal track criteria so the PRD hits every point needed to succeed. He covers the Hedera Docs MCP, which connects Claude directly to the documentation to speed up building, and offers to help anyone get set up at the booth. He also introduces a recent addition, Scaffold HAR, a scaffold with templates built on best practices (launchable with npx create scaffold-har) that includes templates matching the bounties (x402, a payment handler, cross-chain DCA, and tokenized subscriptions). He closes with a recap of the bounties: AI and agentic payments (two teams, $3,000 each), tokenization on Hedera (two teams, $1,500 each), a no-Solidity smart-contract-free track (up to three winners, $1,000 each), and cross-chain automation using the Hedera schedule service and Axelar. 00:00 Introduction 00:11 Who Is Using Claude Code 00:32 What This Workshop Covers 00:43 The Hedera Skills Repo 00:58 The Five Skills and the Hackathon Helper 01:22 The Hackathon PRD Skill 01:53 The Validate Submission Skill 02:18 The Judging Criteria 02:35 How Easy Installation Is 02:51 Generating a PRD From Your Idea 03:12 The Hedera Docs MCP 03:39 Adding the MCP to Claude 04:00 Questions on Skills and MCP 04:08 Introducing Scaffold HAR 04:33 The Templates for the Bounties 04:57 Recapping the Bounties 05:26 Closing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 🇵🇹 *ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026* This workshop is specifically for ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026, a 3-day hackathon held July 24-26 at the Carlos Lopes Pavillion, 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 Lisbon 2026 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWgAODGnD_is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ✅ *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

Today I'll tell you about Cloud Code and some skills that will help you during the hackathon this weekend. Um, I have a quick question. Who here is using Cloud Code right now? Perfectly. And who among you uses plugins uses plugins , skills or MCP , skills or MCP servers?

Perfectly. So, this will be a good refresher for you. We'll talk about plugins, skills, and the plugins, skills, and the Hedera MCP server, which allows you to connect to Hedera documentation to get the most context for your Cloud instance. This is a QR Cloud instance. This is a QR code to the Hedera skills repository on GitHub.

I highly recommend scanning it and downloading these skills. We will cover the installation process in the following slides. This code is also available at our stand. If you didn't have time now, you can see it on the screen when you pass by our stand. There are five skills in this repository.

The main one we'll talk about today is Hackathon Helper. This plugin contains two main skills. The first one is the PRD Hackathon. This is a skill you launch to discuss your idea. She will help you detail it and suggest the best way to integrate Hedera into your project.

As a result, you will receive a complete product requirements document explaining the idea and its integration with Hedera. You can then use it to develop your idea with Claude idea with Claude . We also have the Validate Submission skill. Once you have created a project and are ready for evaluation, run Validate Submission and it will check your repository, evaluating it against similar criteria. It will analyze how you have integrated Hedera and determine whether it is of sufficient quality for an accurate assessment.

Here are the two skills, as well as the evaluation criteria: innovation, realism, execution, integration, validation, success, and presentation. The presentation will be on Sunday, when you will show us your idea. Installation is very simple. You only need to type "marketplace add Hedera dev Hedera skills", reload the plugins, and don't even have to invoke the skill directly. Just say "create a hackathon PRD for this" and describe your idea.

You can also insert criteria from the ETHGlobal website for the specific major you are applying for, ensuring that the PRD contains all the points you need to achieve for maximum success maximum success . And we also have MCP with Hedera documentation. So, the Hedera documentation MCP will allow Claude to connect directly to our documentation site. So, when you actively develop your idea, it will speed up your work significantly. Because all the resources will be at your fingertips.

Again , this QR code is on our stand. So if you don't scan it here, it's also available there. Once again, a quick demonstration of how to add MCP to your Claude instance. I understand that most of you have already added MCP before. So if any of you get stuck, feel free to look for me.

I'll help you set everything up. Are there any questions at all about MCP or skill plugins? None. Perfectly. We also have another tool that will help you a lot, this is a recent addition recent addition —Hedera scaffold HBAR.

And this is, in fact, exactly what is needed—a framework for the project. It has many templates built in using best practices, very easy to set up: just ` npx create scaffold HBAR`, and there are templates there applicable to the bounties we are running today: X402 payment scheduler, DCA crosschain, Token-eye subscription. So if your idea is related to any of these, you can download Scaffold HBAR, also use MCP skills, and it will put you in a very strong position to create a create a winning project. And now a brief summary of our bounties. So, we have AI energy payments.

That's two winners, or two teams, who can win $3,000 each. Tokenization on Hedera, again, is two teams, $1,500 each. Solidity is banned, so no smart contracts. Up to three winners for this bounty, $1,000 each. As well as cross-chain well as cross-chain automation using Hedera Schedule Service and Axelar.

Good luck to everyone. And I look forward to your projects.

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