London AI x Science Hackathon Best use of Devin

Run a Parallel Lab.
Not one idea at a time.

Real research groups don't test one hypothesis at a time. Point five or more Devins at your track problem, one idea each. Every session ends in a PR with a measured result, and GPU work runs on Modal. You set the direction and judge the results.

Add all 7 playbooks to Devin Browse playbooks

Opens one Devin session that saves every playbook into your org, macros included.

!parallel_lab · Polaron batch QC

Running 3

Self-supervised SEM embeddings + shift test

lab/sem-embed · Modal L40S

Conformal accept / investigate / reject

lab/conformal · CPU

Anomaly detection vs baseline batch

lab/anomaly · Modal L4

PR is ready 2

Classical microstructure KPIs

acc 0.81 ± 0.03 · +0.09

Per-KPI attribution for explanations

negative result · kept

Lead session 1

Frozen split, eval script and baseline

merged to main

Leaderboard PR

waiting on 3 sessions

Quickstart

Five minutes.
Then five experiments.

Add the playbooks.

Click "Add all 7 playbooks". One Devin session saves them all into your org. No copy-paste.

Add your secrets.

Add your Modal token under Settings → Secrets. Child sessions only see saved secrets, never ones pasted into chat.

Prepare the repo.

Run !hack_setup. It installs the sponsors' official agent skills, and every later session inherits them.

Run the lab.

Run !parallel_lab with your problem, metric and 5+ ideas. You get one PR per idea and a leaderboard.

Playbooks

One lab.
Every sponsor tool.

"Create in Devin" opens Devin's new-playbook page with the full text already filled in. Press Save. DeepMind and Anthropic tools are left out on purpose.

Credits & secrets

Save them once.
Every session inherits them.

Add these in Devin under Settings → Secrets, using these exact names. Only Modal is required for the challenge.

Tool	Secret names	Get it	Credit
Modal · required	`MODAL_TOKEN_ID` `MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET`	modal.com/settings/tokens	$150 per builder
Hugging Face	`HF_TOKEN` (write)	huggingface.co/settings/tokens	Coupon for Jobs + ZeroGPU
Paperclip by GXL	`PAPERCLIP_API_KEY`	paperclip.gxl.ai/keys	Free, unlimited at the event
Amass	`AMASS_API_KEY`	platform.amass.tech → API Keys	$500 per team

The challenge

Best use of Devin.
Run a Parallel Lab.

Use Devin as your team's research engineers, while your team focuses on direction and judgment. !parallel_lab covers every requirement by default.

015+ sessions in parallel.

Each one tests a different idea: a model, a method, an optimisation or an analysis.

02A PR with a result.

Every session ends in a branch or PR, scored with the team's shared eval script.

03GPU work on Modal.

Each PR records the Modal app link, GPU type and cost.

04One leaderboard.

Deltas and uncertainty, with negative results kept in. That's your 2-minute demo.

Add all 7 playbooks to Devin Idea starters for each track

Five minutes.Then five experiments.