Projects / Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents 2026
Award winnerSecure & Govern MCP — winnerConfidence: low
Kubernetes-native MCP governance
Monitors agentgateway and kagent resources, scores MCP security posture and adds AI risk analysis.
Project facts
- Track / challenge
- Secure & Govern MCP
- Team
- 1 person · IN
- Build
- software only
- AI
- llm api, mcp server
Problem
Teams deploying MCP servers have no posture view of how secure their agent infrastructure is.
Solution
A Kubernetes-native governance layer that watches gateway and agent resources, scores each MCP server's security posture and explains risks with Gemini or a local Ollama model.
Demo moment
Not described in the sources.
Why it stood out
- organizer statedMCP-server-centric scoring model applied to the organizer's own resources.Source ↗
- curator inferenceOffers a local-model option (Ollama), which matters for governance buyers.
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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