HarborHack welcomes students, professionals, hobbyists, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs, and anyone excited to build.

Teams may consist of at least 2 humans.

Projects should be substantially created during the hackathon.

You may:

• Prepare development environments

• Install software

• Configure hardware

• Explore documentation

• Build reusable libraries and frameworks before the event

You may not arrive with a substantially completed solution.

The core functionality, integration, and project work should take place during HarborHack.

AI is encouraged.

You may use commercial models, open-weight models, local models, coding agents, autonomous agents, or experimental systems unless restricted by a specific challenge.

If your project uses AI, be transparent about how it was used.

Open-source software, libraries, frameworks, and pretrained models may all be used in accordance with their licenses.

Please respect all applicable licenses and attribution requirements.

Your submission must be your team's own work.

Existing libraries, frameworks, and pretrained models are welcome.

Simply repackaging someone else's project is not.

HarborHack is committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment for everyone.

Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, or abusive behavior will not be tolerated.

Participants are expected to treat fellow hackers, mentors, volunteers, judges, sponsors, and organizers with professionalism and respect.

Failure to follow the Code of Conduct may result in removal from the event.

The organizers reserve the right to determine eligibility, interpret these rules, and make final judging decisions.

Most importantly:

Be honest.

Be curious.

Help each other.

Experiment boldly.