Winners of Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents (Solo.io)

A Kubernetes-native platform that federates several MCP servers behind a single endpoint, letting IDEs and AI clients query MIMIC-IV clinical data securely through agents, tools and service discovery.

A full-stack e-commerce site built to demonstrate MCP authentication and authorization. agentgateway, Keycloak JWTs and CEL rules are enforced at the protocol layer, so agents cannot route around the security boundary.

A bridge that wires kagent to the Microsoft Agent Framework over A2A, so agents built on the .NET side can be brought into the kagent ecosystem as-is.

Nine substantial pull requests that pushed agentgateway from a model proxy into an identity-aware control plane for agents — identity at the edge, OpenTelemetry visibility into agent execution and support for multiple model providers.

A Kubernetes-native, multi-cluster inventory controller for enterprise AI infrastructure, extending the agentregistry idea so teams can actually see what agent infrastructure they are running at scale.

A FinOps platform whose agents hunt down wasted Kubernetes spend on their own — spotting it, diagnosing the cause and applying the fix. Built on kagent, kgateway and kmcp, it turns cost optimization into something that runs continuously instead of quarterly.

Kubernetes-native governance for MCP infrastructure: it watches agentgateway and kagent resources, scores security posture per MCP server, and explains the risks using Gemini or Ollama.

An agent that gives kagent eyes: it grabs a webcam photo and transforms it with Nano Banana and Veo3. It also ships an American Sign Language mode, so accessibility was part of the design rather than an afterthought.