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Ralphthon Protocol

v1 โ€” by Team Attention
AI์—๊ฒŒ ์œ„์ž„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ AI Native ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค.
๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠฌ์ด ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•จ์„ ๊นจ๊ณ , ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.
Delegate to AI. Humans build community with fellow AI Natives.
The lobster costume breaks the ice โ€” and becomes the content.

Ralphthon์ด๋ž€? What is Ralphthon?

Ralphthon์€ AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ฝ”๋”ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค์ด๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋Š” ์ŠคํŽ™์„ ์“ฐ๊ณ , ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์…‹์—…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋žฉํƒ‘์„ ๋‹ซ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ž์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฝ”๋”ฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์€? ์˜† ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ , ํ† ๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ , ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค.

๋žฉํƒ‘์„ ๋งŒ์ง€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠฌ์„ ์ž…์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ทœ์น™ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ƒ‰ํ•จ์„ ๊นจ๊ณ , ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์„œ๋กœ ๋•๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ž…์œผ๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€์„œ ๋””๋ฒ„๊น…์„ ๋„์™€์ค€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.

Ralphthon is a hackathon where AI agents code while humans build community. Participants write specs, set up agents, then close their laptops. From that point, agents code autonomously. Humans? They talk, debate, and make friends.

Want to touch your laptop? You must put on the lobster costume first. This one rule breaks the ice, creates laughter, and makes people help each other. When someone puts on the lobster, others rush to help debug. And that moment becomes the content.

4๋‹จ๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ 4-Phase Structure

Phase 1
Setup
์ŠคํŽ™ ์ž‘์„ฑ + ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ์…‹์—…
Write spec + setup agent
Phase 2
Handoff
๋žฉํƒ‘์„ ๋‹ซ๋Š”๋‹ค ๐Ÿฆž
Close your laptop ๐Ÿฆž
Phase 3
Autonomous
์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ
Agent codes alone
Phase 4
Demo
๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ™•์ธ + ๋ฐœํ‘œ
Review + present

Non-Negotiables

์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฉด Ralphthon์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Without these, it's not a Ralphthon.

๐Ÿฆž
The Lobster Rule
์ž์œจ์‹คํ–‰ ์ค‘ ๋žฉํƒ‘ ํ„ฐ์น˜ ์‹œ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠฌ ์ฐฉ์šฉ ํ•„์ˆ˜. ์ตœ๋Œ€ 10๋ถ„. ํšŸ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜.
Must wear lobster costume to touch laptop. 10 min max. Count affects judging.
01
Spec Submission
Handoff ์ „์— ์ŠคํŽ™ ์ œ์ถœ ํ•„์ˆ˜. ํ˜•์‹์€ ์ž์œ .
Must submit spec before Handoff. Any format.
02
Public Repos
๋ชจ๋“  ์ฝ”๋“œ๋Š” public GitHub repo. ์ƒˆ ์ž‘์—…๋งŒ.
All code in public GitHub repos. New work only.
03
Live Demo Only
์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ ๊ธˆ์ง€. ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ๋งŒ.
No slides. Show working product.
04
Frontier AI Only
6๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์—๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ถ€์ ํ•ฉ. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์˜ AI๋กœ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ.
If it was possible 6 months ago, it doesn't belong here.
05
Team Attention Co-host
์Šน์ธ ํ•„์ˆ˜. Luma์— ๊ณต๋™ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ ๋“ฑ๋ก.
Approval required. Co-host on Luma.

Community Over Competition Community Over Competition

์„œ์šธ ์ฒซ Ralphthon์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ: ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐค์ƒˆ ์ฝ”๋”ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, 13๋ช…์˜ ๋นŒ๋”๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ 3์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ AI์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ† ๋ก ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ž ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋””๋ฒ„๊น…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋™๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜.

What we discovered at the first Ralphthon in Seoul: while agents coded through the night, 13 builders debated AI until 3 AM. When someone's agent stalled and they put on the lobster, others rushed to help debug. Not competition โ€” camaraderie.

๊ทœ์น™ Rules

ํŒ€ Team

๐Ÿšซ Banned Projects (์ฆ‰์‹œ ์‹ค๊ฒฉ) ๐Ÿšซ Banned Projects (Instant DQ)

ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ, ์ œ๊ฑฐ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€. Hosts may add items, never remove.

์‹ฌ์‚ฌ Judging

์‹ฌ์‚ฌ์œ„์› Judges

Round 1: Table Review

๊ธฐ์ค€Criteria๋น„์ค‘Weight
Live Demo35%
Creativity & Originality25%
Impact Potential20%
Lobster Count (fewer = better)20%

Lobster Count Scoring

์ฐฉ์šฉ ํšŸ์ˆ˜Lobster Count์ ์ˆ˜Score
020
115
210
3+5

์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€ 4๊ฐ€์ง€์™€ ๋น„์ค‘์€ ๊ณ ์ •. ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์œ„ 4๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค.

The 4 criteria and weights are fixed. Hosts may add criteria but cannot modify the core four.

Round 2: Finals

Round 1์—์„œ ์ตœ์†Œ 5ํŒ€ ์„ ๋ฐœ โ†’ ์ „์ฒด ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž ์•ž ๋ฌด๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ.

Top 5+ teams from Round 1 present on stage in front of everyone.

์‹œ์ƒ Awards

1/2/3๋“ฑ ์ˆœ์œ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ณ„ ์‹œ์ƒ:

Not 1st/2nd/3rd โ€” category awards:

๐Ÿ†
Best Output
๊ฐ€์žฅ ์™„์„ฑ๋„ ๋†’์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ
Best working product
โš™๏ธ
Best Harness
์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ํ•˜๋„ค์Šค ์„ค๊ณ„
Best agent engineering
๐Ÿค
Community Award
๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ
Most connections made

Problem Statements Problem Statements

ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ 1~3๊ฐœ ํŠธ๋ž™์„ ์ •์˜. ์ฃผ์ œ๋Š” ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ Frontier AI์˜ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Host defines 1โ€“3 tracks. Topics are flexible, but must maintain a Frontier AI character.

"์ด๊ฑธ AI ์—†์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜?" โ†’ Yes๋ฉด ๋ถ€์ ํ•ฉ
"6๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์—๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ๋‚˜?" โ†’ Yes๋ฉด ๋ถ€์ ํ•ฉ
"์ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์„ธ์ƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋‚˜?" โ†’ ๋Œ€๋‹ต์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ์ ํ•ฉ

"Could this be built without AI?" โ†’ If yes, not suitable
"Was this possible 6 months ago?" โ†’ If yes, not suitable
"How would the world change if this worked?" โ†’ If you can answer, it fits

์•ฑ: ralphthon.team-attention.com App: ralphthon.team-attention.com

ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ ์Šน์ธ ํ›„ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ์ƒ์„ฑ ๊ถŒํ•œ ๋ถ€์—ฌ. ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋Š” ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ.
๋ฐฐํฌ: github.com/team-attention/ralphthon ๋ ˆํฌ๋ฅผ fork โ†’ Vercel/Netlify์— ๋ฐฐํฌ.

Event creation granted after host approval. Participants log in via email.
Deploy: Fork github.com/team-attention/ralphthon โ†’ deploy on Vercel/Netlify.

๊ธฐ๋ŠฅFeature์„ค๋ช…Description
์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ์ƒ์„ฑEvent creation์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋ช…, ๋‚ ์งœ, ํฌ๋งท, Problem StatementName, date, format, problem statements
์ŠคํŽ™ ์ œ์ถœSpec submissionHandoff ์ „ URL ์ œ์ถœ (ํ•„์ˆ˜)Submit URL before Handoff (required)
Request Lobster ๐ŸฆžRequest Lobster ๐Ÿฆž๋ฒ„ํŠผ ํด๋ฆญ โ†’ ์šด์˜ํŒ€ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ โ†’ ์ž๋™ ์นด์šดํŠธClick โ†’ ops delivers โ†’ auto counted
์ฝ”๋“œ ์ œ์ถœCode submissionGitHub URL + ๋ฐ๋ชจ ์˜์ƒGitHub URL + demo video
ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œFollow system์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž ๊ฐ„ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐ โ†’ Community AwardFollow each other โ†’ Community Award

ํฌ๋งท Formats

Format A: Day
Format B: Overnight

SF์—์„œ ๊ฒ€์ฆ. 50~200๋ช… ๊ทœ๋ชจ. ์ž์œจ์‹คํ–‰ 3์‹œ๊ฐ„. Proven in SF. 50โ€“200 builders. 3h autonomous.

์‹œ๊ฐ„Timeํ™œ๋™Activity
08:30๋„์–ด ์˜คํ”ˆ, ์ฒดํฌ์ธ, ํŒ€ ๋นŒ๋”ฉDoors open, check-in, team building
09:30์˜คํ”„๋‹ โ€” ๋ฃฐ ์„ค๋ช…, ๐Ÿฆž ์‹œ์—ฐOpening โ€” rules, ๐Ÿฆž demo
10:00Setup (2.5h)
12:00โš ๏ธ 30๋ถ„ ์ „ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ โš ๏ธ 30-min warning
12:30Handoff โ€” ๐Ÿฆž๐Ÿฆž๐Ÿฆž
12:30โ€“15:30Autonomous (3h)
15:30๋žฉํƒ‘ ์˜คํ”ˆ + ๋ฐ๋ชจ ์ค€๋น„Laptops open + prep demo
16:30์ œ์ถœ ๋งˆ๊ฐ โ†’ Table ReviewSubmission โ†’ Table Review
17:30์Šคํ”ผ์ปค ์„ธ์…˜ (์„ ํƒ)Speaker session (optional)
18:30Finals ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ๋ฐ๋ชจFinals on stage
19:30์‹œ์ƒ์‹Awards
20:00~๋„คํŠธ์›Œํ‚นNetworking

์žฅ์†Œ Venue

๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๊ฐ€ ๋™์‹œ์— ์•‰์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Every participant must be able to sit down at the same time.

Finals์—์„œ ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ , ์‹œ์ƒ์‹์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜คํ”„๋‹์—์„œ ๋ฃฐ์„ ๋“ฃ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๊นจ์ง„๋‹ค.

Everyone watches Finals together, celebrates awards together, hears the rules together. If this isn't possible, the community experience breaks.

ํŒ: ํ…Œํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋นŒ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์— ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ œ๊ณต. ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค.

Tip: Borrow a tech company office. Most offer space for free. Your biggest cost disappears.

ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ Host Checklist

D-30

D-14

D-3

D-Day

๋„ค์ด๋ฐ Naming

๊ถŒ์žฅ: Ralphthon @[ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ช…] โ€” ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ "Ralphthon"์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํฌํ•จ.

Recommended: Ralphthon @[host] โ€” customizable, but "Ralphthon" must be included.

Ralphthon @Seoul ยท Ralphthon @SF ยท Ralphthon @Tokyo ยท Ralphthon @Google ยท Ralphthon @Anthropic ยท Ralphthon @Stanford

ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜๊ธฐ Host a Ralphthon

  1. ์‹ ์ฒญ โ€” bong@team-attention.com
  2. Apply โ€” bong@team-attention.com
  3. ์Šน์ธ โ€” Team Attention์ด ํฌ๋งท ํ™•์ธ
  4. Approval โ€” Team Attention reviews format
  5. Luma โ€” ๊ณต๋™ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ์ƒ์„ฑ
  6. Luma โ€” Create event as co-host
  7. ์‹คํ–‰ โ€” ์ด ํ”„๋กœํ† ์ฝœ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹คํ–‰
  8. Execute โ€” Follow this protocol
ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๊ธฐ Apply to Host