LiveKit Hackathon Starter Kits

LiveKit at MongoDB London — The Agentic Evolution Hackathon

Build a voice AI agent with LiveKit Agents and MongoDB Atlas. Everything below is what you need to ship in a weekend.

1. Install the LiveKit Docs MCP server

The fastest way to keep your coding agent on the rails. It pulls live docs, code examples, and changelogs straight into Cursor / Claude Code / VS Code so you stop fighting hallucinations.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livekit-docs https://docs.livekit.io/mcp

Cursor — one-click install

VS Code

code --add-mcp '{"name":"livekit-docs","type":"http","url":"https://docs.livekit.io/mcp"}'

Codex

codex mcp add --url https://docs.livekit.io/mcp livekit-docs

Full reference and other clients (Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Copilot CLI): docs.livekit.io/mcp.

Or use the LiveKit Agents skill

If you'd rather use a Claude Code skill instead of (or alongside) the MCP server:

npx skills add https://github.com/livekit/agent-skills --skill livekit-agents

Activates automatically for relevant tasks, or invoke with /livekit-agents.

2. Clone the MongoDB starter kit

git clone https://github.com/livekit-examples/mongodb-hacker-starter

A LiveKit voice agent (Python or Node) wired into MongoDB Atlas with a Next.js frontend. Demonstrates five integration patterns out of the box:

  • RAG with $vectorSearch
  • Agentic memory with $rankFusion
  • Pre-loaded user context before the LLM's first turn
  • Function-tool CRUD against your domain collections
  • Session report persistence on disconnect

Follow the README for pnpm setup → pnpm db:init → pnpm db:seed → pnpm dev:py (or pnpm dev:ts).

3. Redeem your $50 in inference credits

All attendees get a 7-day free trial of the LiveKit Ship plan — $50 in inference credits, no credit card required.

  1. Create a project at cloud.livekit.io
  2. Redeem at cloud.livekit.io/projects/p_/redeem
  3. Code: HACK-AGENTIC-EVOLUTION

4. Ship it

Install the LiveKit CLI (one-time):

brew install livekit-cli
# or
curl -sSL https://get.livekit.io/cli | bash

CLI setup and reference: docs.livekit.io/intro/basics/cli.

When your agent works locally, deploy from inside the agent directory:

lk agent create

Then test against the frontend you cloned.

Prize

The 1st place team — selected at MongoDB .local later that week — takes home NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kits for every team member.

Judging favors:

  • Uniqueness — agents we haven't seen before
  • Technical depth — non-trivial use of LiveKit's framework and Cloud
  • Polish — the LiveKit integration feels seamless and is core to the product

Reference