$50K+ prize · Open the browser to ship it · Iterate on TikTok / YouTube / Instagram / LinkedIn.
Format = the artifact you ship. Ideas = the pain you fix. Either one wins. Both wins harder.
Add an agent layer to any URL you already use daily.
Long-running agents that live across tabs and remember state.
A standalone HTML page deployed on Tabbit — the agent's full surface, so stars stay countable.
The dragged-out stuff every student secretly hates doing.
A tiny dose of joy slipped into something dull and daily.
One click replaces an entire session of switching and copy-pasting.
Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Continue — whatever you already build in. Or skip the IDE entirely and build inside Tabbit's chat. Either way it lands as a shareable web agent.
Grab a Tabbit playbook (a SKILL.md recipe + scaffolding), drop it into the IDE you already ship in. Out comes a skill folder ready to inject.
tabbit.ai/playbooks — pick a template (arXiv-brew, course-quizzer, campus fixer…), get the SKILL.md recipe.@ menu → Select Local Folder → pick your skill folder → type /tabhacks. Chat parses, dry-runs, debugs, registers — your web agent is live./<skill-name> in any Tabbit chat.
The chat itself is the composer. Drop a folder, fire a slash command, the chat takes it from spec → live skill.
@ local folder + /tabhacks
→
Chat becomes Composer
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build · test · register · run
/tabhacks
SKILL.md…
✓ parse spec (5 fields ok)
✓ dry-run (3/3 steps green)
✓ debug (no failures)
✓ register → /arxiv_morning_brew
/arxiv_morning_brewEmbeds welcome: Tabbit-hosted HTML (the agent's output, so stars are countable), YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn. The web agent is the shareable artifact.
The TabHacker Board is where uploads happen and every submission is rendered at native size — YouTube full player, TikTok / Instagram with engagement.
From 289M-traffic LMS giants to +199%-growing AI workflows to -24%-collapsing study tools — pick a site, layer a skill on top, ride the existing traffic. Distribution data sourced from Semrush + SimilarWeb, Mar 2026.
Real repos people forked to wake up a site they already use — Zotero, Overleaf, arXiv, Coursera, PubMed. Fork one of these, add your twist, ship in days.
Seven things people ask before registering.
You do. No equity, no rights grab, no fine print. TabHacks gets a non-exclusive license to feature your skill on the TabHacker Board and in Tabbit Browser — credit by name, always. Your repo, your fork, your follow-on monetization.
Likely yes — treat it as income. U.S. winners receive a 1099-MISC if cash exceeds $600. International winners receive a 1042-S where required. We pay gross — you handle your filing.
Every registered builder gets tokenmaxxed — every /tabhacks run on Tabbit Browser is unmetered all summer, no quotas. Top 100 builders get an additional $200 USD personal credit grant after the prize ceremony, valid 12 months.
Yes — every finalist gets a digital certificate signed by Tabbit + ICWSM (verifiable on a public registry). Winners get a physical certificate mailed. TabHacker status appears on your LinkedIn forever, with priority access to future events.
ICWSM is the world's most serious gathering on how the web actually gets used. Web agents are about to change that picture entirely. Serious crowd, low ceremony — exactly the audience that should see the first wave of skills ship.
Ambassador tracks roll all summer and into fall — any region, any city, any campus. This summer / fall TabHacks is focused on web + campus. If you want to host a track at your school or city, the ambassador program opens registration in June.
Yes — no limits. Student, lab researcher, indie hacker, founder, sabbatical creator — if you build agents, this is for you. Campus-anchored tracks have separate sub-pools; the main pool is open globally.
Bring everything from Safari, Edge, or Chrome.
Browser-native AI agent IDE · ships skills via /tabhacks · free during TabHacks summer.
⌘K → type /tabhacks.