{"id":7730,"date":"2026-10-09T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:42:53","slug":"rcds-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/2026\/10\/09\/rcds-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"RCDS Hackathon (21 October 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harness Engineering for Agentic Coding<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ECRI Research Computing and Data Science Hackathon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>21 October 10:00 &#8211; 17:00 at Imperial College London, South Kensington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coding agents can now read a codebase, write and run tests, modify code, and open and review PRs. How well they do that depends partly on the model, but arguably more so on the harness: the instructions, tools, checks and external services around the agent.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s RCDS Hackathon, we\u2019ll learn the ins and outs of harness engineering: tweaking GitHub Copilot to work for us and our research code. What we learn will transfer to other popular harnesses such as Claude Code and OpenAI\u2019s Codex.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have a few demos and a talk, and you\u2019ll spend the rest of the time building useful customisations. Lunch will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never worked with agents or a harness before, this is your opportunity to go beyond the chatbot!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperial.inkpath.co.uk\/redirect\/eyJuYW1lIjoiQWN0aXZpdHlEZXRhaWxQYWdlIiwicGFyYW1zIjp7ImlkIjoxNTAyNjksImNhbGVuZGFyIjp0cnVlfX0=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register on Inkpath<\/a> <em>(Registration Link available to ECRs only &#8211; if you are from the wider Imperial community please <a href=\"mailto:ecri@imperial.ac.uk\">email ECRI<\/a> to register your interest in attending)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harness Engineering for Agentic Coding ECRI Research Computing and Data Science Hackathon 21 October 10:00 &#8211; 17:00 at Imperial College London, South Kensington Coding agents can now read a codebase, write and run tests, modify code, and open and review PRs. How well they do that depends partly on the model, but arguably more so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[319581],"tags":[320929,320931],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-courses","tag-doctoral-students","tag-research-staff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}