# Hedera x Claude Code AI Skills for Hackathon Builders I Logan Nguyen

- Channel: [ETHGlobal](https://streameth.org/ethglobal)
- Date: 2026-08-09
- Duration: 16:45
- Topics: Hedera, Logan Nguyen, Hashgraph, ETHGlobal New York 2026, Hedera Skills, Claude Code, AI skills, plugins, hackathon, EVM compatible, L1, Hedera Consensus Service, smart contracts, Solidity, native services, agent kit, Hedera Agent Toolkit, AI agents, dev intelligence, system contracts, Hedera CLI, hackathon PRD, validate submission, MCP server, docs, knowledge cutoff, SDK, tokenization, agentic payments, automation, carbon negative, Cursor, Codex, workshop, bounties
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-rp8iVrDU_Go
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8iVrDU_Go

## Description

In this workshop at ETHGlobal New York 2026, Logan Nguyen, an engineer at Hashgraph, shows hackathon builders how to move faster on Hedera using its open source collection of AI plugins and skills. He opens with a recap of Hedera for the mixed audience: it is a fully EVM-compatible L1, so anything built on Ethereum (MetaMask, Solidity smart contracts, Foundry, ethers.js) migrates and works out of the box, plus native protocol services like the Hedera Token Service (ERC-20 and ERC-721 style tokens with built-in KYC, freeze, pause, and royalty fees, no separate Solidity contract needed), the Hedera Consensus Service for messaging and topic subscription, a schedule service for on-chain automation, smart contract service, and more. He notes Hedera processes over 10,000 transactions per second with roughly 3-second finality, low fixed and predictable fees (a fraction of a cent), and a carbon-negative network.

Logan then introduces Hedera Skills, the open source collection of plugins and skills built by Hedera's DevRel team, covering six capabilities: the hackathon helper, an agent kit plugin (for building AI agents that interact with the network via natural language using the Hedera Agent Toolkit), dev intelligence for scaffolding and session tracking, native services JavaScript (interacting with native services via the SDK without Solidity), system contracts (the Solidity counterpart for the same services), and the recently added Hedera CLI reference. He goes deep on the hackathon helper's two skills: hackathon PRD, run before writing any code, which teaches Claude, Cursor, or Codex to read Hedera's criteria, ask questions, narrow scope to a demoable MVP, and produce a buildable product requirements document, and validate submission, run before submitting, which does a mock judging pass against Hedera's seven criteria to catch bugs. He live-demos installing the hackathon helper in Claude with three commands and generating a PRD, then introduces the Hedera docs MCP server, which solves AI knowledge cutoff by giving agents a search tool over always-up-to-date documentation, SDK references, and code examples via one command to a remote hosted server. He closes with the four bounty tracks (AI agent, agentic payments, tokenization with no Solidity, and autonomous on-chain automation) and $15,000 in prizes.

00:00 Introduction
00:11 Meet Logan and the Goal of the Workshop
00:32 The Idea: Open Source Plugins and Skills
01:04 A Quick Recap on What Hedera Is
01:30 Why Your EVM Stack Works Out of the Box
01:44 Native Services: The Hedera Token Service
02:27 The Consensus, Schedule, and Smart Contract Services
02:59 Throughput, Finality, and Low Fees
03:35 Why Hedera Is a Carbon-Negative Network
04:24 36 Hours and $15,000 in Prizes
04:51 Introducing Hedera Skills
05:37 The Six Capabilities in the Repo
06:02 The Agent Kit and Dev Intelligence Plugins
06:36 Native Services JavaScript vs System Contracts
07:12 The Recently Added Hedera CLI
07:44 Going Deeper: The Hackathon PRD Skill
08:21 How the PRD Skill Narrows Your Scope
09:00 The Validate Submission Skill
09:36 A Mock Judging Pass Before You Submit
09:52 Live Demo: Installing the Hackathon Helper
10:53 Generating a PRD From an Idea
11:21 How the Skill Asks Questions to Brainstorm
12:47 Claude Generates the PRD
13:13 Introducing the Hedera Docs MCP Server
13:39 Solving the AI Knowledge Cutoff Problem
14:28 One Command to Add the Server
14:58 Using the Server With Natural Language
15:42 Recapping the Two Tools
16:03 The Four Bounty Tracks and Prizes
16:31 Closing

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*ETHGlobal New York 2026*
This workshop is specifically for ETHGlobal New York 2026, a 3-day hackathon held June 12-14 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 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 New York 2026 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzKMXK2aHh7MZ8T-ict6YshkFDw9WJCu

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