Projects / Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents 2026
Award winnerBuilding Cool Agents — winnerConfidence: medium
Frugalia
Agentic FinOps platform that detects, analyzes and resolves infrastructure waste in Kubernetes clusters.
Project facts
- Track / challenge
- Building Cool Agents
- Team
- 1 person · MX
- Build
- software only
- AI
- agent, mcp server
Problem
Kubernetes clusters accumulate idle and oversized resources that teams pay for without noticing.
Solution
Agents built on kagent, kgateway and kmcp continuously find waste, explain it and act to resolve it.
Demo moment
Not described in the sources.
Why it stood out
- organizer statedPractical and impactful: continuous cost optimization for real teams.Source ↗
- organizer statedStrong submission package — the organizer called out the blog, the video and the repository.Source ↗
- curator inferenceUses three of the organizer's own projects together, the deepest platform fit in its track.
Lessons for your next hackathon
- For online open-source hackathons, the write-up and video are the demo — invest in them like a live pitch.
Similar situations
Projects that share domains, mechanisms or judging lenses — often with a different problem and stack.Tune the comparison.
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Sources
- https://www.solo.io/blog/celebrating-the-winners-of-the-2026-hackathon-for-mcp-ai-agents · official results · retrieved 2026-09-14