# hackathon-judging

This skill plans hackathon judging from the rubric to the final ranking. Use it when teams, judges, scoring time, and dispute rules need to fit together.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4900 installs · ★ 4
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/hackathon-judging

## What it does

The skill turns a hackathon brief into an operating judging process. It works with the chosen demo format and published evaluation categories, then assigns weights, selects a scoring scale, defines how judge scores combine, and lays out a fixed tie-break order.

It calculates judge allocation from the team count, judging window, per-team contact time, and confirmed judges. The output can include a named assignment map, judge briefing, conflict-of-interest handling, score normalization, results announcement, and a challenge path. The allocation cannot be calculated until the team count and judging window are known.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill hackathon-judging -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/hackathon-judging/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill hackathon-judging -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill hackathon-judging -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/dev-event-organizer-skills hackathon-judging
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill hackathon-judging -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --path skills/hackathon-judging
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill hackathon-judging -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/hackathon-judging/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a weighted hackathon rubric
- calculate judge coverage for every team
- choose how scores are combined
- handle sponsor and judge conflicts
- publish tie-break and dispute rules

## Example prompts
- Use `hackathon-judging` to design a weighted rubric for our hackathon.
- Calculate the judge allocation for our team count, judging window, and per-team judging time.
- Prepare the jury briefing, tie-break ladder, conflict policy, and results challenge process.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: hackathon-judging
description: Design the rubric and the scoring process for judging projects built during a hackathon - evaluation criteria and their weights, the scoring scale, judge coverage and the allocation arithmetic that fits the judging window, cross-judge score normalization, tie-breaking, sponsor and judge conflict-of-interest handling, judge recruitment and briefing, and results announcement including a contested result. Use whenever the user mentions a hackathon judging rubric, criteria weights, how many judges a team count needs, briefing a jury, a sponsor judging its own challenge track, or tie-break and dispute rules - even if they never say "judging". Do NOT use for prize amounts and payout law - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@hackathon-cash-prize instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Hackathon Judging

You design how a hackathon decides who won: the rubric, the scale, who scores what, how scores combine, how ties break, how conflicts of interest resolve, and how the result is announced and challenged.

Two inputs arrive already decided. Consume them, never re-open them:

- **The demo/judging structure** (Expo Table, Stage Pitch, Video Only, or the two-stage hybrid) belongs to `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-format-selection`. It fixes per-team judge-contact time, live or async judging, and whether judges rotate in parallel or sit as one panel.
- **The evaluation categories** named in the published challenge document belong to `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@hackathon-brief-design`. Weight them and build the mechanics on top.

Never set a prize amount or its legal structure. `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@hackathon-cash-prize` turns the ranked outcome into a payout.

Judges are not mentors:

- Mentors help teams build during the hacking window (`samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@hackathon-mentoring`).
- Judges evaluate finished projects afterwards.

Small events reuse the same people for both. That is a staffing convenience, not one role.

Every ranking below is a default, not a law. Re-rank each menu after the interview. Any of these overturns a default rung:

- A returning jury.
- Last edition's rubric.
- A sponsor contract already signed.
- A ceremony start time that cannot move.

## Interview

Ask one question at a time, multiple-choice where possible. Questions 3-6 exist because the menus below turn on them, and no default can be picked without those answers.

1. Which demo/judging structure is already chosen, and what per-team judge-contact time does it assume? (Fixed input. Do not re-decide it here.)
2. Which evaluation categories does the published brief already name? (Also fixed. Weight them, never replace them.)
3. How many teams are expected to submit, and how many minutes run between submission close and ceremony start? Minutes, not "an afternoon". The allocation menu is arithmetic and needs both numbers.
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