What to Build

Build an AI Skill that runs on UGREEN AI NAS. Use the UGREEN Skill Developer Package and its technical docs to build it. Choose one track that best fits your Skill:

• Automate Your Workflow: Build an AI Skill that uses authorized NAS files and data, together with the file, document, knowledge, and system capabilities provided for the Hackathon, to organize content, extract information, generate summaries, and streamline repetitive tasks.
• Bring Memories to Life: Build an AI Skill that works with authorized photos, videos, and documents stored on UGREEN AI NAS to organize or search content, extract text, generate summaries, or create albums.
• Unleash Your Creativity: Build an AI Skill that helps photographers, editors, designers, and other content creators search, tag, select, organize, and review media stored on UGREEN AI NAS, making creative preparation faster and more efficient.
• Open Innovation: Go beyond the tracks above by combining the NAS, AI, media, file, and knowledge capabilities provided for the challenge to build an original AI Skill that addresses a real user need and runs on UGREEN AI NAS.

What to Submit: Round 1

You do not need a NAS for Round 1. You also do not need a code repo link or a demo video. Submit these items on the Hackathon Website by Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 11:45 pm PT:

1. Project Proposal (PDF) . Submit the Project Proposal as a separate PDF file no larger than 1 MB. The proposal must address the following ten items in no more than 500 English words in total:

• What does your Skill do? (one sentence)
• Who is your target user, and what is their problem?
• What is your solution?
• What is the main user flow?
• How is your idea different from existing tools or common AI solutions?
• Which UGREEN AI NAS features does your Skill use, and at which step?
• What is your technical approach? (Describe the planned Skill workflow, supported NAS CLI capabilities, expert agent orchestration, required inputs, permissions, AI model choices, and data handling, as applicable)
• What have you built so far? What is not built yet? What still needs testing on a NAS?
• How will you test your Skill if you become a Finalist? Name two core test cases and one edge case.
• What are the known limits, risks, or outside dependencies of your Skill?

Any third-party components must be identified, including their sources and applicable licenses.

The ten substantive responses must not exceed 500 English words in total. Team consent declarations, member names, electronic signatures, and third-party license information are excluded from this word limit.

2. Pre-test Skill Package (ZIP). Submit one ZIP file following the official Uliya Skill Development Standard:

• SKILL.md (required): Describe the user goal, required inputs, supported CLI capabilities, expert agent orchestration workflow, and completion/failure handling. Include frontmatter with name (lowercase, hyphenated, 2–64 characters) and description (maximum 1,024 characters). 
• References (optional): Supporting Markdown files, each directly linked from SKILL.md.

In SKILL.md or its linked references, disclose third-party components and open source libraries, their sources and licenses, the principal functionality developed for this Hackathon, and AI tools used and their principal uses.

The ZIP file and uncompressed package must each be no larger than 10 MB, with a maximum of 1 MB per file and 100 files. Separate manifests, scripts, executables, binaries, and other unsupported files are prohibited. Use placeholders for configuration examples; do not include real credentials, personal data, or API keys.

The package need not be fully installable or operational on UGREEN AI NAS in Round 1. Local test results are optional.

You may build on an idea conceived before the Hackathon, but your submitted Skill and its core workflow must be newly developed during the Hackathon. Do not reuse previously developed Skills or submission materials.

What to Submit: Round 2 (Finalists only)

UGREEN will invite up to 30 Finalists to Round 2 by email on November 21. Each Finalist gets a private submission link and one assigned day of remote access to a UGREEN AI NAS, between November 22 and November 28. For teams, UGREEN sends the login details to the team Representative only.

Submit these items through your private link by Monday, November 30, 2026 at 11:45 pm PT:

1. Final Skill Package.

   • Submit the final version of the same Skill entered in Round 1 as one ZIP file. Follow the same Uliya Skill Development Standard, file structure, technical limits, and disclosure requirements specified for Round 1. The Skill must operate on your assigned UGREEN AI NAS.

2. Demo video.

   • Provide a link to a public YouTube video of no more than 3 minutes, using English narration or complete English subtitles. Record the Skill operating on your assigned UGREEN AI NAS during your assigned testing day, and show its core workflow, key capabilities, and actual results.

Do not delete your Round 1 materials.