GhostGate @ HOST 2027

GhostGate is the Hardware Hacking Competition at IEEE HOST 2027.

An agentic AI competition to insert, detect, and repair hardware Trojans. It puts agentic AI on both sides of hardware security. Insertion agents hide hardware trojans and hard-to-detect functional bugs in large, complex, open-source chip designs.
Assurance agents prove what is correct, detect what is not, and return machine-checkable evidence. Remediation agents trace failures to root causes and verified fixes. Everyone uses the same designs, sandbox, and budgets. The organizers’ detection system, the Oracle, evaluates every insertion and is the public baseline for participant agents.

HIDE: TRACK 1 — INSERTION GHOSTS
Insert Trojans that evade the organizers’ detection system.
Individuals only.

HUNT: TRACK 2 — ASSURANCE WARDS
Build agents that detect Trojans and verify designs.
Individuals or teams of up to 4.

FIX:  TRACK 3 — REMEDIATION RITES
Build agents that locate and repair hardware Trojans.
Individuals or teams of up to 4.