See what two developers built with the Metabase MCP server and file-based development — and why we picked them as our AI Hackathon winners.

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence (BI) tool for data visualization and analytics. Readers can find documentation, tutorials, and community forums to learn about using Metabase for data exploration, dashboard creation, and generating insights from data. Additionally, they can learn about connecting Metabase to various data sources, building custom dashboards, and sharing reports with stakeholders.

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Metabase announced the two winners of its AI Hackathon, held to celebrate open-sourcing all AI features in Metabase. The first winner, Meta Chess by Marat Surmashev, uses the Metabase MCP server as a message bus between Claude and Codex AI agents playing chess, with the entire game platform built as a file-based dashboard using YAML cards and the serialization v2 API. The second winner, Claude's Advice by Owais Mumtaz, is a nightly automated task that reads 60 days of personal fitness data via the MCP server and writes actionable advice back to a personal dashboard chart. Both projects showcase Metabase's MCP server and file-based development features in creative, practical ways.

Winners of the Metabase AI Hackathon

<p>who plays chess better, codex or claude? :D</p>
