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Weekend Challenge: Give your Agent a Tool
October 23, 2026 · 12:00 AM PDT – October 26, 2026 · 1:00 PM PDT
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You already have an agent. This weekend, make it do more.
Take an agent you have already built and give it one new tool it did not have before, then show what it can now do. The tool can be anything that extends what your agent can reach or act on: an Amazon S3 reader that pulls in a document or dataset, an AWS Lambda function that runs custom logic, an Amazon Rekognition call that lets it describe an image, or an Amazon Location Service lookup that gives it geocoding and distance. Add it, wire it up, and show the before and after.
The goal is simple. Pick one capability your agent was missing, give it the tool to close that gap, and demonstrate the new behavior in action.
Who can enter: Open to builders 18 or older with a Builder Center profile. See Rules for country and employee exclusions.
How to enter: Submit a previously unpublished project that includes:
- The agent you started with and what it could already do
- The one new tool you added and why you picked it
- At least one AWS service as part of the agent or tool
- In the "demo" field of your project submission, include a link to a short (less than 3 minute) public video (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook), showing what your agent can do now that it could not do before
How entries are judged:
After the challenge closes on Monday, October 26 at 1:00 PM PT, entries are evaluated in two gates.
Gate 1, AI scoring and human review: Every entry is first checked against the entry requirements, then scored by a combination of AI and human review on the four criteria below. The 50 highest-scoring entries advance to Gate 2.
Gate 2, judge review: A panel of AWS judges reviews the top 50 and selects the 5 winners using the same four criteria and weights.
- Technical innovation and originality (25%): How clever and original the new tool and the way you used it are.
- Craft and execution (25%): How well the tool is wired into the agent and how reliably the agent uses it.
- Usefulness and impact (25%): How much the new capability matters, and how easily others could reuse the pattern.
- Creativity and storytelling (25%): How clearly and compellingly the write-up and demo show the before and after.
Tips to make it shine:
- Keep the tool focused. One well-chosen tool that unlocks a real new behavior beats a pile of half-wired ones.
- Show the contrast. The clearest entries make the before and after obvious.
- Built with the Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock? Call out how the tool plugs into your agent so others can reuse the pattern.
Prizes: The top 5 projects each receive $100 in AWS credits and an AWS Builder Backpack.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
| Weekend Challenge | Date and Time (PDT) |
|---|---|
| Opens | Friday, October 23, 12:00 AM (7:00 AM UTC) |
| Closes | Monday, October 26, 1:00 PM (8:00 PM UTC) |
Awards
1) $100 in AWS Promotional Credits and an AWS Builder Backpack
$200
2) $100 in AWS Promotional Credits and an AWS Builder Backpack
$200
3) $100 in AWS Promotional Credits and an AWS Builder Backpack
$200
4) $100 in AWS Promotional Credits and an AWS Builder Backpack
$200
5) $100 in AWS Promotional Credits and an AWS Builder Backpack
$200
