Finalist
OmniBridge
OmniBridge is an AI agent that identifies unknown serial device protocols autonomously — a workflow that didn't exist a year ago because it needs Opus 4.7's specific capabilities to work.
Core trick
Runs a Claude tool loop where a CRC16 check across byte frames validates inferred structure, then generates local extractors.
Description
OmniBridge is an AI agent that identifies unknown serial device protocols autonomously — a workflow that didn't exist a year ago because it needs Opus 4.7's specific capabilities to work.
Plug in a 1980s weighing scale, a Modbus PLC, or an Arduino sensor. OmniBridge runs Claude as a multi-step agent with six purpose-built tools — for binary streams, one surgical call to analyze_binary_structure validates CRC16 across every frame and returns frame structure, enough evidence to commit with high confidence. Every reasoning step streams live. Once identified, Claude-generated regex (ASCII) or byte-offset extractors (binary) run locally at thousands of packets per second, zero ongoing API cost.
Traditional protocol integration: engineer reads vendor docs, writes custom parser, ships glue code — eighteen hours median per device. OmniBridge: five minutes. For $1.2 trillion of legacy industrial hardware stranded outside the cloud, that speedup opens entire new markets.
This couldn't work with a smaller model. Adaptive thinking lets Claude spend more compute on binary vs ASCII. Multi-turn tool use with preserved reasoning lets the agent pick a surgical tool and commit. Prompt caching delivers ~65% cache hit on repeat investigations,
keeping cost near $0.20 per identification — roughly one-thousandth of the engineer time replaced.
Open source, MIT licensed, native desktop app on macOS.
README excerpt
<div align="center"> # ⬡ OmniBridge ### **An AI agent category that didn't exist a year ago.** OmniBridge identifies any legacy serial device protocol — binary, undocumented, proprietary — in under a minute. It is what industrial integration looks like once models can reason about raw bytes.       *Built for the Claude Opus 4.7 Hackathon 2026 · Problem Statement: **Build For What's Next*** <!-- Replace with real screenshot: 1400×800 capture of the app with Modbus investigation + live Dashboard + cost summary card visible --> <!--  --> **[▶ Watch the 2-minute demo](https://youtu.be/RX-uGdIQLLU)** </div> --- ## Why this exists I work as a backend engineer on IoT systems, including industrial weighing scales (*timbangan*). I have shipped the kind of custom parser OmniBridge replaces — spent days reverse-engineering vendor protocols that didn't match their own documentation, written glue code nobody else will ever touch. The legacy-hardware integration tax is real and I have paid it. But this is not