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# PodMan — A Pair Programmer for Engineering Teams
[![LiveKit](https://img.shields.io/badge/LiveKit-realtime-000000?logo=livekit&logoColor=white)](https://livekit.io/)
[![MongoDB](https://img.shields.io/badge/MongoDB-vector%20memory-47A248?logo=mongodb&logoColor=white)](https://www.mongodb.com/)
[![Gemini](https://img.shields.io/badge/Gemini-3.x%20Live%20%2B%20Vision%20%2B%20Lyria-8E75B2?logo=googlegemini&logoColor=white)](https://ai.google.dev/)
[![DigitalOcean](https://img.shields.io/badge/DigitalOcean-deploy-0080FF?logo=digitalocean&logoColor=white)](https://www.digitalocean.com/)
[LiveKit](https://livekit.io/)
[MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/)
[Gemini](https://ai.google.dev/)
[DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/)
**2026 AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon — Theme: Continual Learning**
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---
## How it learns
The learning loop is the product, not a side feature. It runs with almost no
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└──────────────────────────── feeds next recall ───────────────────────────┘
```
| Stage | What happens | Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Observe** | Gemini Vision turns each screen frame into structured work context (file, symbol, activity, unpushed hints) | `backend/src/vision/gemini.ts` |
| **Detect** | Same file touched by 2+ engineers with unpushed work → a coordination event | `backend/src/collision/detector.ts` |
| **Recall (memory)** | Embed the event, query MongoDB Atlas `$vectorSearch` for similar past events, attach their prior intervention + outcome | `backend/src/memory/vectors.ts` |
| **Policy gate (adapt)** | A dismissed false alarm stays silent; a confirmed real catch escalates to critical; a per-pod cooldown prevents nagging | `backend/src/memory/policy.ts` |
| **Act (least intrusive)** | Reuse the action kind that was accepted before; default to a card, escalate to a Hermes message, voice only when urgent | `backend/src/action/hermes.ts` |
| **Record (feedback)** | Accept/dismiss + "was it real?" is written back to memory, closing the loop for next time | `backend/src/memory/store.ts` |
| Stage | What happens | Code |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| **Observe** | Gemini Vision turns each screen frame into structured work context (file, symbol, activity, unpushed hints) | `backend/src/vision/gemini.ts` |
| **Detect** | Same file touched by 2+ engineers with unpushed work → a coordination event | `backend/src/collision/detector.ts` |
| **Recall (memory)** | Embed the event, query MongoDB Atlas `$vectorSearch` for similar past events, attach their prior intervention + outcome | `backend/src/memory/vectors.ts` |
| **Policy gate (adapt)** | A dismissed false alarm stays silent; a confirmed real catch escalates to critical; a per-pod cooldown prevents nagging | `backend/src/memory/policy.ts` |
| **Act (least intrusive)** | Reuse the action kind that was accepted before; default to a card, escalate to a Hermes message, voice only when urgent | `backend/src/action/hermes.ts` |
| **Record (feedback)** | Accept/dismiss + "was it real?" is written back to memory, closing the loop for next time | `backend/src/memory/store.ts` |
A few things make this real learning rather than a static prompt:
- It adapts from real teammate behavior during a real session, not an offline
dataset.
dataset.
- It gets more useful as the `outcomes` collection grows — better recall, fewer
false alarms.
false alarms.
- It needs one tap. No labeling, no config, no retraining.
- The mechanism is memory: Atlas vector recall plus an outcome-conditioned
policy, with an exact-signature fallback when vector search isn't available.
policy, with an exact-signature fallback when vector search isn't available.
In practice: a false alarm gets dismissed once, and the same pattern stays quiet
next time. A real conflict gets accepted once, and when it recurs PodMan recalls
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---
## Architecture
A browser PWA, an HTTP API service, LiveKit agent workers, and a
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API --> Mongo
```
### Runtime shape
| Layer | Runtime | Responsibility |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Frontend PWA | React + Vite | Join pods, publish screen share, render interventions, play audio |
| Backend API | Express | Mint LiveKit tokens, manage pods, record outcomes, expose memory stats, create sync PRs |
| Vision agent | `@livekit/rtc-node` | Subscribe to screen-share tracks, sample frames, publish intervention data |
| Live conversation agent | LiveKit Agents (Python) + Gemini Live API | Real-time voice Q&A with function tools over repo, git, and memory |
| Perception | Gemini Vision (`gemini-2.0-flash`) | Sampled IDE frames → structured work context |
| Team memory | MongoDB Atlas | Observations, collisions, interventions, outcomes, vector embeddings |
| Git watcher | Node script | Report each laptop's dirty/unpushed state as ground truth |
| Action layer | Hermes | Cards, teammate messages, Gemini TTS urgent voice, Lyria background score |
| Deployment | DigitalOcean | Static frontend, API service, agent workers |
| Layer | Runtime | Responsibility |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Frontend PWA | React + Vite | Join pods, publish screen share, render interventions, play audio |
| Backend API | Express | Mint LiveKit tokens, manage pods, record outcomes, expose memory stats, create sync PRs |
| Vision agent | `@livekit/rtc-node` | Subscribe to screen-share tracks, sample frames, publish intervention data |
| Live conversation agent | LiveKit Agents (Python) + Gemini Live API | Real-time voice Q&A with function tools over repo, git, and memory |
| Perception | Gemini Vision (`gemini-2.0-flash`) | Sampled IDE frames → structured work context |
| Team memory | MongoDB Atlas | Observations, collisions, interventions, outcomes, vector embeddings |
| Git watcher | Node script | Report each laptop's dirty/unpushed state as ground truth |
| Action layer | Hermes | Cards, teammate messages, Gemini TTS urgent voice, Lyria background score |
| Deployment | DigitalOcean | Static frontend, API service, agent workers |
### Data flow
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API->>Mongo: Store learning signal
```
---
## Built with
Everything below maps to code in this repo.
**Gemini** does the perception, the voice, and the memory:
| Use | Model | Where |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Use | Model | Where |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Real-time voice agent (talk to PodMan, answered with repo/git/memory tools) | `gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview` | `agents/podman-live-conversation/agent.py` |
| Spoken urgent alerts over LiveKit | `gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` | `backend/src/voice/live.ts` |
| Screen understanding → structured work context | `gemini-2.0-flash` | `backend/src/vision/gemini.ts` |
| Per-pod background music (Interactions API) | `lyria-3-clip-preview` | `backend/src/voice/music.ts` |
| Embeddings for memory recall | `gemini-embedding-001` | `backend/src/memory/vectors.ts` |
| Spoken urgent alerts over LiveKit | `gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` | `backend/src/voice/live.ts` |
| Screen understanding → structured work context | `gemini-2.0-flash` | `backend/src/vision/gemini.ts` |
| Per-pod background music (Interactions API) | `lyria-3-clip-preview` | `backend/src/voice/music.ts` |
| Embeddings for memory recall | `gemini-embedding-001` | `backend/src/memory/vectors.ts` |
**LiveKit** is the real-time layer: screen-share tracks are the input, a typed
data channel (`podman.intervention`) carries cards and messages, audio tracks
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## How it works
1. Engineers open the PWA and join a pod room.
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3. The PWA publishes screen share into the room on "Share my screen".
4. The PodMan vision agent subscribes to the screen-share tracks.
5. The agent samples frames, sends them to Gemini Vision, records structured
observations in MongoDB.
observations in MongoDB.
6. Each engineer runs the git watcher so PodMan has deterministic
dirty/unpushed truth.
dirty/unpushed truth.
7. The detector fuses live screen context, git truth, GitHub state, and recalled
memory.
memory.
8. The policy gate decides whether and how to act — card, Hermes message, or
urgent voice — reusing what worked before.
urgent voice — reusing what worked before.
9. Urgent escalations are spoken via Gemini TTS over a LiveKit audio track.
10. The teammate's accept/dismiss is saved as an outcome, closing the
continual-learning loop.
continual-learning loop.
Separately, any teammate can start a **live voice conversation** with PodMan
(Gemini Live API) to ask about current work, git state, or where something lives
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---
## Public interfaces
| Interface | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `GET /health` | API health check |
| `POST /api/token` | Mint LiveKit room tokens |
| `POST /api/sync-pr` | Create a visible sync PR artifact |
| `POST /api/outcome` | Store accepted/dismissed intervention outcomes |
| `GET /api/memory/stats` | Memory collection counts (live learning evidence) |
| `GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/pods` | Pod CRUD |
| `POST/DELETE /api/pods/:id/members` | Pod membership |
| LiveKit topic `podman.intervention` | Intervention data channel |
| Wire messages `COLLISION`, `ACK`, `GIT_REPORT`, `VOICE_CUE` | Agent/PWA contract |
| Interface | Purpose |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| `GET /health` | API health check |
| `POST /api/token` | Mint LiveKit room tokens |
| `POST /api/sync-pr` | Create a visible sync PR artifact |
| `POST /api/outcome` | Store accepted/dismissed intervention outcomes |
| `GET /api/memory/stats` | Memory collection counts (live learning evidence) |
| `GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api/pods` | Pod CRUD |
| `POST/DELETE /api/pods/:id/members` | Pod membership |
| LiveKit topic `podman.intervention` | Intervention data channel |
| Wire messages `COLLISION`, `ACK`, `GIT_REPORT`, `VOICE_CUE` | Agent/PWA contract |
---
## Monorepo layout
| Folder | What |
| --- | --- |
| Folder | What |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `frontend/` | React + Vite PWA — pods, LiveKit room UI, screen share, intervention cards |
| `backend/` | Express API plus the LiveKit vision agent worker |
| `agents/` | Python LiveKit Agents worker for the Gemini Live conversation agent |
| `shared/` | Shared TypeScript types and LiveKit data message contracts |
| `database/` | MongoDB setup and seed utilities |
| `infra/` | DigitalOcean specs, Caddyfile, systemd units |
| `scripts/` | Local git watcher + deploy/verify tooling |
| `docs/` | Integration specs and the demo script |
| `backend/` | Express API plus the LiveKit vision agent worker |
| `agents/` | Python LiveKit Agents worker for the Gemini Live conversation agent |
| `shared/` | Shared TypeScript types and LiveKit data message contracts |
| `database/` | MongoDB setup and seed utilities |
| `infra/` | DigitalOcean specs, Caddyfile, systemd units |
| `scripts/` | Local git watcher + deploy/verify tooling |
| `docs/` | Integration specs and the demo script |
---
## Quick start
```bash
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## Git watcher — run on every demo laptop
Each engineer runs this before the demo. It polls the local git working tree