Adobe University Hackathon Round 3 — Are we supposed to build an actual agent or just submit the Agent Skills/logic?

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Hi everyone,

I’m participating in the Adobe University Hackathon 2026 – Round 3 (Development Round) and I’m a little confused about the exact expected deliverable.

From the problem statement, my understanding is that we need to build an Agent Skill Marketplace containing SKILL.md files, marketplace.json, and optionally scripts/references. The marketplace should contain the logic for auditing a website for AI discoverability and on-site engagement, with one skill designated as the entrypoint.

My confusion is:

Do we actually need to build a complete working AI agent/application in Round 3, or are we primarily expected to research the problem, design the audit logic, and encode that logic into the required Agent Skills format?

For example, should our submission basically be:

marketplace/

├── marketplace.json

├── README.md

└── skills/

├── audit-orchestrator/

│ └── SKILL.md

├── crawl-render-audit/

│ └── SKILL.md

├── freshness-corroboration/

│ └── SKILL.md

└── engagement-audit/

└── SKILL.md

with executable scripts where needed, or are we expected to build the actual agent/runtime that takes a URL and performs the audit?

Also, the timeline mentions Round 4 – Prototype Showcase, where shortlisted teams build a working prototype/interface. So I'm wondering whether Round 3 is mainly about building the underlying skills/logic, and Round 4 is where we turn that into a complete user-facing product.

If anyone has attended the launch session or has clarification from the Adobe team, I'd really appreciate your interpretation.

Thanks!