We propose a one-day, hackathon-style workshop within the COST WG2 Hadron Spectroscopy activities, focused on improving practical workflows for modeling hadronic reactions in experimental particle physics. The workshop is designed as a hands-on, collaborative event where experimentalists, phenomenologists, and theorists work side by side on concrete technical tasks motivated by current and upcoming spectroscopy analyses.
The main goal is to lower the practical barrier to advanced amplitude-based analyses by jointly exploring modern computational workflows, automation strategies, and collaborative development practices. Rather than presenting finished solutions, the workshop emphasizes active participation: participants will prototype analysis components, explore ways to automate repetitive and error-prone tasks, and test ideas for improving model handling, validation, and generation of hadronic reactions. Particular attention will be paid to how modern tooling — version control, shared repositories, reproducible environments, and AI-assisted workflows — can be integrated into everyday analysis work.
A central outcome of the workshop is the production of concrete, community-usable material. This includes structured documentation, web-accessible learning resources, and tutorial-style examples that demonstrate complete workflows from model setup to practical use in analyses and generators. These materials are intended to be directly reusable by early-career researchers and smaller groups, and to serve as a basis for longer-term collaboration within the COST action.
By concentrating expertise into an intensive, practical format, the workshop aims to strengthen cross-experiment communication, improve transparency and reproducibility in hadron spectroscopy analyses, and accelerate progress toward shared community practices without requiring long onboarding periods or prior specialist knowledge.