Submissions

For all submissions, we strongly encourage you to include a blog post that introduces your project and provides a high-level overview that judges can quickly review. Your blog post should include:

• A clear description of your project and its goals
• A short highlight overview for judges
• A demo video
• A link to your GitHub repository
• Any additional context or documentation you would like us to review

You may publish this on your personal blog or as a blog for one of our open source projects.

Sample Submission Ideas

Here are a few examples to help spark ideas (these are not requirements):

1. Tutorials and Best Practices

• An in-depth tutorial showing how to bootstrap infrastructure
• Best practices for authorization and authentication with MCP
• Real-world deployment scenarios
• Recommendations on using specific features from one or more of our open source projects

Example: Christian Posta’s blog on agentgateway with Microsoft Entra

2. Improving Our Open Source Projects

Contributions to:

• kagent
• agentgateway
• agentregistry

Example pull requests:

• kagent PR #1213
• kagent PR #1210

3. Adding Guardrails to MCP Servers

Many popular MCP servers lack guardrails. Rather than rewriting them, you could:

• Add authentication, multiplexing, or input/output validation
• Wrap or extend existing MCP servers with guardrails
• Reference approaches shown in the “MCP from Zero to Production” webinar workshop

How Are Projects Judged?