Introducing CAIPE Contribution Badges

[sriaradhyula]

🏅 Introducing CAIPE Contribution Badges

You’ve stepped into the unknown and made the agents dance.
You teach by doing, inspiring others to follow.
Silent, precise, unstoppable — you are one with the masters.
Continuous improvement fuels your Agentic Journey.

We’re excited to introduce CAIPE Badges, a gamified way to celebrate your contributions and learning journey in the Community AI Platform Engineering (CAIPE) open-source ecosystem! 🚀

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🎖 Badge Levels

Level 1 – CAIPE Explorer 🧑‍🚀

• Focus: Understand the basics of AI Platform Engineering.
• How to Earn: Successfully run the multi-agent system on your laptop or platform with at least one use case.
• Tip: Earning this one is easy — just attend one of our hands-on workshops (more details on this shortly).

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Level 2 – CAIPE Improver 🔧

• Focus: Build on the basics with customization and integrations.

• How to Earn:

  • Customize agents with prompts, tools, and RAG.
  • Experiment with short & long-term memory (Context Engineering).
  • Integrate multi-agent tracing and embrace Eval Driven Development (EDD).

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Level 3 – CAIPE Expert 🧠

• Focus: Advanced deployment and community leadership.

• How to Earn:

  • Deploy CAIPE securely with Agent Identity (Zero-Trust).
  • Use semantic layers and agent-to-agent gateways.
  • Actively contribute and share Agentic learnings with the CAIPE and OSS community.

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Level 4 – CAIPE Master 🥋

• Focus: Enterprise-scale mastery and innovation.

• How to Earn:

  • Securely deploy CAIPE at scale in production environments.
  • Mentor peers on multi-agent adoption best practices.
  • Pioneer new frontiers in the Agentic AI ecosystem.

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🌟 Why Earn Badges?

• Showcase your achievements in your GitHub profile or LinkedIn.
• Gain recognition in the CAIPE and OSS community.
• Unlock opportunities to collaborate, present, and lead future workshops.

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🚀 Next Steps

• Start your journey: [CAIPE Documentation](https://cnoe-io.github.io/ai-platform-engineering/)
• Watch for updates on upcoming hands-on workshops.
• Share your progress and questions in the [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/cnoe-io/ai-platform-engineering/discussions).

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🛰 COMING SOON: Hands-On Workshops

We’re setting up interactive sessions where you can:

Run the multi-agent system step-by-step.

Get guided help from CAIPE contributors.

Earn your Explorer badge during the workshop.

Stay tuned for dates and registration links — your Agentic journey is about to launch! 🚀

[stibrewa]

Hello, Here is revised badge criteria progression milestones based on community contributions https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CtwByUsHImjvvgggA6sF9RRUcIvjI-e9KmLael_9cVw/edit?usp=sharing, happy to make any changes to this

[sriaradhyula]

Expert and Master badge evidence ledger (checked 2026-09-28)

This records the CAIPE Expert and Master badges that are accepted and public in the CAIPE Credly issuer account. The linked merged PRs are representative, verifiable contributions completed before each badge was issued. They are evidence for the award, not an exhaustive contribution history. The repository previously linked as cnoe-io/ai-platform-engineering now lives at caipe-io/ai-platform-engineering.

Master

The published Master criterion includes maintaining a module or serving as a reviewer/approver. All four recipients below are named in the repository's MAINTAINERS.md; the PRs show substantive work predating their awards.

Recipient	Public badge	Repository evidence
Arthur Drozdov	Master, issued Mar 13, 2026	Built the Komodor agent (#64) and single-node deep agent architecture (#777).
Sri Aradhyula	Master, issued Mar 13, 2026	Built the task builder and visual workflow editor (#895) and admin audit logs (#894).
Shubham Bakshi	Master, issued Mar 13, 2026	Built the Dynamic Agents builder with MCP integration (#918) and configurable RAG MCP server (#875).
Sunny Whang	Master, issued Mar 13, 2026	Integrated the agentgateway Helm chart (#665) and improved release automation using a GitHub App (#911).

Expert

The published Expert criterion includes designing or implementing a new feature, integration, or agent.

Recipient	Public badge	Repository evidence
Omar Sayed	Expert, issued Mar 17, 2026	Added the AWS EKS agent (#205) and integrated the AWS agent with the platform engineer (#246).
Stefan Braicu	Expert, issued Mar 13, 2026	Implemented MCP tool selection and structured output (#162) and profile-based Docker Compose deployment (#475).

Pending or unaccepted badge invitations are excluded from this public recipient ledger. This list can be updated when an award becomes public and its evidence has been checked.