diff --git a/backend/src/graph/demo.ts b/backend/src/graph/demo.ts
index 57a0e32..f1a1fb3 100644
--- a/backend/src/graph/demo.ts
+++ b/backend/src/graph/demo.ts
@@ -8,24 +8,62 @@ import type { PodGraph } from '@podman/shared';
  * auth* — is the continual-learning story the demo lights up.
  */
 export function createDemoPodGraph(podId: string): PodGraph {
+  const base = Date.now();
+  const at = (secAgo: number): string => new Date(base - secAgo * 1000).toISOString();
   return {
     podId,
     generatedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+    loop: [
+      { key: 'observe', title: 'OBSERVE', value: '5', detail: '~5/s vision contexts', active: false },
+      { key: 'store', title: 'STORE', value: '124', detail: 'memory vectors · Atlas', active: false },
+      { key: 'predict', title: 'PREDICT', value: '1', detail: 'open risk path', active: true },
+      { key: 'outcome', title: 'OUTCOME', value: '1/0', detail: 'accepted · dismissed', active: false },
+      { key: 'adapt', title: 'ADAPT', value: '3', detail: 'learned owners', active: false },
+    ],
+    activity: [
+      {
+        id: 'demo-learn',
+        at: at(20),
+        kind: 'learned_from',
+        text: 'Memory updated: Karti owns auth.ts (confidence ↑)',
+      },
+      { id: 'demo-out', at: at(24), kind: 'outcome', text: 'Intervention accepted by the pod' },
+      {
+        id: 'demo-warn',
+        at: at(40),
+        kind: 'warns',
+        text: 'PodMan: "Karti & Yahya are both in auth.ts — open a sync PR?" → card sent',
+      },
+      {
+        id: 'demo-col',
+        at: at(58),
+        kind: 'collision',
+        text: 'Critical overlap on auth.ts · Karti + Yahya',
+      },
+      {
+        id: 'demo-edit',
+        at: at(72),
+        kind: 'editing',
+        text: 'Yahya opened auth.ts — unpushed changes',
+      },
+    ],
+    // Kept consistent with the graph below (3 owner engineers, 1 collision file,
+    // 1 of 1 interventions accepted) so the numbers never contradict the picture.
     metrics: [
       {
         label: 'Learned owners',
-        value: '5',
-        detail: 'Ownership edges retained from accepted interventions.',
+        value: '3',
+        detail: 'Distinct owners retained from accepted interventions.',
       },
       {
         label: 'Open risk paths',
-        value: '2',
-        detail: 'auth.ts and the memory API have converging editors.',
+        value: '1',
+        detail: 'File with two or more converging editors.',
       },
       {
         label: 'Accept rate',
-        value: '86%',
-        detail: 'Interventions accepted this session (+14%).',
+        value: '100%',
+        detail: 'Interventions accepted vs total this session.',
       },
     ],
     nodes: [
diff --git a/backend/src/graph/live.ts b/backend/src/graph/live.ts
index 6cbb74d..098b7d6 100644
--- a/backend/src/graph/live.ts
+++ b/backend/src/graph/live.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ import type {
   PodGraphNodeKind,
   PodGraphEdgeKind,
   PodGraphNodeStatus,
+  LearningStage,
+  LearningStageKey,
+  ActivityEvent,
+  EngineerContext,
+  Collision,
+  Intervention,
+  InterventionOutcome,
 } from '@podman/shared';
 import { collections, getGitStates, getDb } from '../memory/db.js';
 
@@ -148,6 +155,185 @@ function layout(nodes: PodGraphNode[]): void {
 
 const SEVERITY_WEIGHT: Record<string, number> = { info: 0.4, warn: 0.7, critical: 1 };
 
+/** Parse any timestamp-ish value to epoch ms (0 when missing/unparseable). */
+function ms(t: string | Date | null | undefined): number {
+  if (!t) return 0;
+  const v = new Date(t).getTime();
+  return Number.isFinite(v) ? v : 0;
+}
+
+const OBSERVE_WINDOW_MS = 60_000;
+
+/**
+ * Live counts for the learning-loop rail (observe→store→predict→outcome→adapt).
+ * The "active" stage is the one whose latest underlying event is most recent —
+ * with deeper stages winning ties so the rail lights up at the furthest point
+ * the pod reached this session. Additive: derived from already-fetched docs.
+ */
+function buildLoop(opts: {
+  now: number;
+  observations: EngineerContext[];
+  collisions: Collision[];
+  outcomes: InterventionOutcome[];
+  riskPaths: number;
+  vectorCount: number;
+  learnedOwners: number;
+}): LearningStage[] {
+  const { now, observations, collisions, outcomes, riskPaths, vectorCount, learnedOwners } = opts;
+
+  const recentObs = observations.filter((o) => now - ms(o.observedAt) < OBSERVE_WINDOW_MS).length;
+  const rate = (recentObs / 60).toFixed(1);
+  const accepted = outcomes.filter((o) => o.accepted).length;
+  const dismissed = outcomes.filter((o) => !o.accepted).length;
+
+  // Latest event time per stage; `store` sits just behind `predict` so a shared
+  // collision timestamp resolves to PREDICT rather than STORE.
+  const latestObs = Math.max(0, ...observations.map((o) => ms(o.observedAt)));
+  const latestCol = Math.max(0, ...collisions.map((c) => ms(c.detectedAt)));
+  const latestOut = Math.max(0, ...outcomes.map((o) => ms(o.recordedAt)));
+  const latestAdapt = Math.max(
+    0,
+    ...outcomes.filter((o) => o.accepted && o.wasRealCollision).map((o) => ms(o.recordedAt)),
+  );
+
+  const refs: Array<[LearningStageKey, number]> = [
+    ['observe', latestObs],
+    ['store', latestCol ? latestCol - 1 : 0],
+    ['predict', latestCol],
+    ['outcome', latestOut],
+    ['adapt', latestAdapt],
+  ];
+  let activeKey: LearningStageKey = 'observe';
+  let best = 0;
+  for (const [k, t] of refs) {
+    if (t > 0 && t >= best) {
+      best = t;
+      activeKey = k;
+    }
+  }
+
+  const stages: Array<Omit<LearningStage, 'active'>> = [
+    { key: 'observe', title: 'OBSERVE', value: String(recentObs), detail: `~${rate}/s vision contexts` },
+    { key: 'store', title: 'STORE', value: String(vectorCount), detail: 'memory vectors · Atlas' },
+    {
+      key: 'predict',
+      title: 'PREDICT',
+      value: String(riskPaths),
+      detail: `open risk path${riskPaths === 1 ? '' : 's'}`,
+    },
+    { key: 'outcome', title: 'OUTCOME', value: `${accepted}/${dismissed}`, detail: 'accepted · dismissed' },
+    {
+      key: 'adapt',
+      title: 'ADAPT',
+      value: String(learnedOwners),
+      detail: `learned owner${learnedOwners === 1 ? '' : 's'}`,
+    },
+  ];
+  return stages.map((s) => ({ ...s, active: s.key === activeKey }));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Merge + time-sort recent events into the activity stream feed. Reuses the same
+ * de-noise (isFilePath / ENGINEER_NOISE / signature collapse) as the graph so
+ * the feed never shows junk paths or test-artifact engineers. Capped to 8.
+ */
+function buildActivity(opts: {
+  observations: EngineerContext[];
+  collisions: Collision[];
+  interventions: Intervention[];
+  outcomes: InterventionOutcome[];
+  ownership: Record<string, string>;
+}): ActivityEvent[] {
+  const { observations, collisions, interventions, outcomes, ownership } = opts;
+  const cleanEng = (n: string): boolean => Boolean(n) && !ENGINEER_NOISE.test(n);
+  const out: ActivityEvent[] = [];
+
+  // editing — newest observation per (engineer, file); observations arrive desc.
+  const seenEdit = new Set<string>();
+  for (const o of observations) {
+    if (!o.engineerId || !cleanEng(o.engineerId)) continue;
+    const file = o.currentFile ? normalizeFile(o.currentFile) : '';
+    if (!isFilePath(file)) continue;
+    const key = `${o.engineerId.toLowerCase()}|${file}`;
+    if (seenEdit.has(key)) continue;
+    seenEdit.add(key);
+    out.push({
+      id: `edit:${o.engineerId}:${file}`,
+      at: o.observedAt,
+      kind: 'editing',
+      text: `${o.engineerId} opened ${shortLabel(file)}${
+        o.hasUnpushedChanges ? ' — unpushed changes' : ''
+      }`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  // collision — collapse by signature, newest first.
+  const seenCol = new Set<string>();
+  for (const c of collisions) {
+    const file = normalizeFile(c.file);
+    if (!isFilePath(file)) continue;
+    const sig = (c as { memorySignature?: string }).memorySignature ?? `${file}#${c.symbol ?? ''}`;
+    if (seenCol.has(sig)) continue;
+    seenCol.add(sig);
+    const engs = c.engineers.filter(cleanEng);
+    if (!engs.length) continue;
+    out.push({
+      id: `col:${c.id}`,
+      at: c.detectedAt,
+      kind: 'collision',
+      text: `${c.severity === 'critical' ? 'Critical overlap' : 'Overlap'} on ${shortLabel(
+        file,
+      )} · ${engs.join(' + ')}`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  // warns — interventions PodMan raised.
+  for (const iv of interventions) {
+    if (!iv.message) continue;
+    const msg = iv.message.length > 64 ? `${iv.message.slice(0, 61)}…` : iv.message;
+    out.push({
+      id: `warn:${iv.id}`,
+      at: iv.createdAt,
+      kind: 'warns',
+      text: `PodMan: "${msg}" → card sent`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  // outcome + learned_from — the supervised learning beat.
+  const colById = new Map(collisions.map((c) => [c.id, c]));
+  const ivById = new Map(interventions.map((i) => [i.id, i]));
+  for (const o of outcomes) {
+    if (!o.accepted) continue;
+    out.push({
+      id: `out:${o.interventionId}`,
+      at: o.recordedAt,
+      kind: 'outcome',
+      text: 'Intervention accepted by the pod',
+    });
+    if (!o.wasRealCollision) continue;
+    const iv = ivById.get(o.interventionId);
+    const col = iv ? colById.get(iv.collisionId) : colById.get(o.collisionId);
+    if (!col) continue;
+    const file = normalizeFile(col.file);
+    if (!isFilePath(file)) continue;
+    const owner =
+      (o as { learnedOwner?: string }).learnedOwner ??
+      ownership[file] ??
+      col.engineers.find(cleanEng) ??
+      col.engineers[0];
+    if (!owner) continue;
+    out.push({
+      id: `learn:${o.interventionId}`,
+      at: o.recordedAt,
+      kind: 'learned_from',
+      text: `Memory updated: ${owner} owns ${shortLabel(file)} (confidence ↑)`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  out.sort((a, b) => ms(b.at) - ms(a.at));
+  return out.slice(0, 8);
+}
+
 export async function materializePodGraph(podId: string): Promise<PodGraph | null> {
   const c = await collections();
   const db = await getDb();
@@ -363,38 +549,89 @@ export async function materializePodGraph(podId: string): Promise<PodGraph | nul
 
   layout(nodes);
 
+  // Metrics are derived from the FINAL de-noised graph (not raw docs) so the
+  // numbers match what's actually on screen. Counting raw collision signatures /
+  // accepted-outcome rows inflates them with test churn (e.g. 50 "risk paths" for
+  // 2 files), which reads as fake — these count distinct visible entities instead.
+  const finalEdges = [...b.edges.values()];
+
+  // Open risk paths = distinct files carrying a surviving collision (the triangles).
+  const riskFiles = new Set<string>();
+  for (const e of finalEdges) {
+    if (e.kind === 'touches' && b.nodes.get(e.source)?.kind === 'file') riskFiles.add(e.source);
+  }
+  const collisionNodeCount = nodes.filter((n) => n.kind === 'collision').length;
+  const riskPaths = riskFiles.size || collisionNodeCount;
+
+  // Learned owners = distinct engineers PodMan retained as owners from accepted
+  // interventions (the owns / learned_from edges actually drawn).
+  const ownerSet = new Set<string>();
+  for (const e of finalEdges) {
+    if (e.kind === 'learned_from') ownerSet.add(e.target);
+    if (e.kind === 'owns') ownerSet.add(e.source);
+  }
+  const learnedOwners = [...ownerSet].filter((id) => b.nodes.get(id)?.kind === 'engineer').length;
+
   const acceptedReal = outcomeDocs.filter((o) => o.accepted && o.wasRealCollision).length;
   const totalOutcomes = outcomeDocs.length;
-  const riskPaths = new Set(
-    collisionDocs.map(
-      (col) =>
-        (col as { memorySignature?: string }).memorySignature ??
-        `${normalizeFile(col.file)}#${col.symbol ?? ''}`,
-    ),
-  ).size;
+  const acceptRate = totalOutcomes ? Math.round((acceptedReal / totalOutcomes) * 100) : null;
+
   const metrics: PodGraphMetric[] = [
     {
       label: 'Learned owners',
-      value: String(acceptedReal),
-      detail: 'Ownership retained from accepted interventions.',
+      value: String(learnedOwners),
+      detail: 'Distinct owners retained from accepted interventions.',
     },
     {
       label: 'Open risk paths',
       value: String(riskPaths),
-      detail: 'Files with two or more converging editors.',
+      detail: `${riskPaths === 1 ? 'File' : 'Files'} with two or more converging editors.`,
     },
     {
       label: 'Accept rate',
-      value: totalOutcomes ? `${Math.round((acceptedReal / totalOutcomes) * 100)}%` : '—',
-      detail: 'Interventions accepted this session.',
+      value: acceptRate == null ? '—' : `${acceptRate}%`,
+      detail: 'Interventions accepted vs total this session.',
     },
   ];
 
+  // Stored vectors for the STORE stage: prefer a real memory_vectors count,
+  // fall back to collisions carrying an embedding, then to collision count.
+  let vectorCount = 0;
+  try {
+    vectorCount = await db.collection('memory_vectors').countDocuments({ podId });
+  } catch {
+    /* memory_vectors is optional */
+  }
+  if (!vectorCount)
+    vectorCount = collisionDocs.filter(
+      (c) => (c as { embedding?: number[] }).embedding?.length,
+    ).length;
+  if (!vectorCount) vectorCount = collisionDocs.length;
+
+  const loop = buildLoop({
+    now,
+    observations,
+    collisions: collisionDocs,
+    outcomes: outcomeDocs,
+    riskPaths,
+    vectorCount,
+    learnedOwners,
+  });
+  const activity = buildActivity({
+    observations,
+    collisions: collisionDocs,
+    interventions: interventionDocs,
+    outcomes: outcomeDocs,
+    ownership,
+  });
+
   return {
     podId,
     generatedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
     nodes,
     edges: [...b.edges.values()],
     metrics,
+    loop,
+    activity,
   };
 }
diff --git a/docs/agent-learning/plan.md b/docs/agent-learning/plan.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4b8e1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/agent-learning/plan.md
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+# Agent Learning Plan
+
+Status: draft  
+Goal: ship a visible recursive self-improvement loop without overbuilding
+
+## Must-Have
+
+1. Store agent runs.
+2. Store trace summaries.
+3. Store active and candidate strategy versions.
+4. Attach verifier or outcome evidence.
+5. Show one strategy improvement in the demo narrative.
+
+## Build Order
+
+### R1: Trace the run
+
+Write one `agent_runs` record for an important coordination decision and append
+trace events for:
+
+- observation
+- recall
+- prediction
+- intervention
+- outcome
+- adaptation
+
+### R2: Version the strategy
+
+Create an active strategy version for one of:
+
+- collision detector threshold
+- intervention routing
+- graph discovery filter
+- card wording prompt
+
+### R3: Score the outcome
+
+Use the simplest verifier:
+
+- accepted real collision = useful
+- dismissed = noisy
+- no response after cooldown = uncertain
+
+### R4: Propose a narrow change
+
+Examples:
+
+- "For this exact signature, prefer sync PR card."
+- "For dismissed docs-only overlaps, suppress voice escalation."
+- "For repeated auth.ts collisions, raise severity."
+
+### R5: Promote or reject
+
+Promote only when evidence is strong enough. Otherwise keep the candidate as
+rejected or open.
+
+## Demo Path
+
+1. Show baseline strategy.
+2. Trigger a collision.
+3. Accept or dismiss the intervention.
+4. Store outcome.
+5. Show a candidate strategy update.
+6. Promote it.
+7. Trigger a similar event.
+8. Show changed behavior.
+
+## Nice-to-Have
+
+- Strategy comparison panel.
+- Model-generated prompt patch with verifier.
+- Vector recall over strategy history.
+- Rollback UI.
+
+## Cut
+
+- Full autonomous code rewriting.
+- Multi-agent strategy debates.
+- Long-term benchmark suite.
+- Training a model.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- The demo can point to a MongoDB record proving the agent changed behavior.
+- The changed behavior is visible.
+- The strategy has a parent and evidence.
+- Rejected or failed changes are not deleted.
+
diff --git a/docs/agent-learning/policy.md b/docs/agent-learning/policy.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce633fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/agent-learning/policy.md
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Agent Learning Policy
+
+Status: draft  
+Scope: guardrails for recursive self-improvement
+
+## Prime Rule
+
+PodMan may improve its agent behavior only when the improvement is narrow,
+evidence-backed, versioned, and reversible.
+
+## Allowed Learning
+
+PodMan may learn:
+
+- Which prompt version produces clearer interventions.
+- Which detector threshold reduces false positives.
+- Which routing channel gets accepted without being intrusive.
+- Which verifier best predicts user acceptance.
+- Which graph-discovery rule produces cleaner risk paths.
+
+## Disallowed Learning
+
+PodMan must not:
+
+- Promote a strategy because the model says it is better.
+- Rewrite broad system behavior from one example.
+- Hide failures, dismissals, or rejected candidates.
+- Learn from raw screenshots, secrets, or private terminal content.
+- Turn voice into the default route.
+- Create irreversible actions without human approval.
+
+## Promotion Rules
+
+A candidate strategy can become active only when all are true:
+
+1. It has a parent strategy version.
+2. It describes one concrete behavior change.
+3. It has a verifier plan.
+4. It has evidence from a run, outcome, or test.
+5. It improves or fixes the target metric.
+6. It does not increase user interruption without payoff.
+
+## Rejection Rules
+
+Reject and retain the candidate when:
+
+- The verifier regresses.
+- The change is too broad.
+- The evidence is missing.
+- The candidate conflicts with privacy rules.
+- The candidate makes the demo less stable.
+
+## Evidence Strength
+
+| Evidence | Strength | Use |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Model opinion | Weak | Proposal only |
+| Trace observation | Medium | Candidate rationale |
+| Human accepted outcome | Strong | Promotion candidate |
+| Human dismissed outcome | Strong | Suppression or rejection |
+| Automated verifier | Strong | Promotion or rejection |
+| Repeated accepted exact signature | Strong | Policy confidence increase |
+
+## Versioning Rules
+
+- Strategy versions are immutable after promotion or rejection.
+- There is one active version per `podId + kind`.
+- A rollback activates the previous version; it does not edit history.
+- Parent-child lineage must be preserved.
+
+## Safety Rules
+
+- Store summaries, not raw sensitive content.
+- Prefer deterministic checks over model judgment.
+- Use exact MongoDB recall before vector recall.
+- Ask for approval before changing code or data with external effects.
+- Treat hackathon demo stability as a hard constraint.
+
+## Demo Honesty
+
+Seeded strategy versions are acceptable when labeled as demo-backed. Do not claim
+a strategy was learned live unless a run and outcome actually created the
+promotion evidence.
+
diff --git a/docs/agent-learning/prompt.md b/docs/agent-learning/prompt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5ff301
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/agent-learning/prompt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Agent Learning Prompt
+
+Use this prompt for an agent responsible for improving PodMan's own behavior.
+
+## Prompt
+
+You are PodMan's agent-learning evaluator.
+
+Your job is to inspect a completed agent run, identify one narrow improvement,
+define how to verify it, and decide whether to propose, promote, or reject a
+strategy change.
+
+You must not claim improvement without evidence. You must not propose broad
+rewrites. Keep every change small, reversible, and tied to a run or outcome.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Current active strategy version.
+- Agent run summary.
+- Trace events.
+- Intervention outcome.
+- Verifier result.
+- Recent false positives or accepted events.
+- Current demo constraints.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Identify the target behavior.
+2. Identify the failure or success evidence.
+3. Decide whether a strategy change is warranted.
+4. Propose one narrow change.
+5. Define the verifier.
+6. Decide status: no change, candidate, promote, reject.
+7. Write a short explanation suitable for the Team memory activity stream.
+
+## Output Format
+
+```text
+Target
+- Strategy kind:
+- Active version:
+- Behavior under review:
+
+Evidence
+- Run:
+- Outcome:
+- Verifier:
+- Confidence:
+
+Decision
+- Status:
+- Proposed change:
+- Why this is narrow:
+- Risk:
+
+Verifier
+- Metric:
+- Passing condition:
+- Failing condition:
+
+Memory Write
+- Collection:
+- Record summary:
+- Graph/activity summary:
+```
+
+## Hard Rules
+
+- Exact outcomes beat model opinion.
+- Rejected candidates stay in memory.
+- No raw screenshots or secrets.
+- No broad policy change from one weak signal.
+- No voice-first behavior.
+
diff --git a/docs/agent-learning/spec.md b/docs/agent-learning/spec.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4a32af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/agent-learning/spec.md
@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+# Agent Learning Spec
+
+Status: draft  
+Scope: how PodMan agents improve their own prompts, policies, detectors, and routing behavior  
+Owner: agent learning / recursive self-improvement
+
+## Purpose
+
+Agent learning is the recursive self-improvement layer. It is not the same as
+team memory. Team memory learns about engineers and work. Agent learning learns
+which agent strategies produce better outcomes.
+
+The demo claim:
+
+1. PodMan tries a coordination strategy.
+2. The run is traced in MongoDB.
+3. A verifier or human outcome scores it.
+4. Gemini or another agent proposes a narrow strategy change.
+5. The new strategy is versioned.
+6. A later run uses the improved strategy and shows a better result.
+
+## Core Objects
+
+### Agent run
+
+One attempt to execute a goal.
+
+```text
+agent_runs
+  runId
+  podId
+  goal
+  trigger
+  strategyVersionId
+  status
+  startedAt
+  completedAt
+  score
+  verifierSummary
+  inputRefs
+  outputRefs
+```
+
+Allowed `status` values:
+
+```text
+running, succeeded, failed, improved, regressed, abandoned
+```
+
+### Trace event
+
+Append-only event log for a run.
+
+```text
+agent_trace_events
+  runId
+  podId
+  step
+  phase
+  eventType
+  inputSummary
+  outputSummary
+  toolName
+  error
+  metrics
+  createdAt
+```
+
+### Strategy version
+
+Versioned prompt, detector rule, policy, verifier, or routing strategy.
+
+```text
+strategy_versions
+  strategyVersionId
+  podId
+  kind
+  name
+  parentVersionId
+  status
+  summary
+  promptText
+  policy
+  verifier
+  metrics
+  createdAt
+  promotedAt
+```
+
+Allowed `kind` values:
+
+```text
+prompt, policy, detector, verifier, routing
+```
+
+Allowed `status` values:
+
+```text
+candidate, active, retired, rejected
+```
+
+### Learning proposal
+
+A candidate change before promotion.
+
+```text
+learning_proposals
+  proposalId
+  podId
+  sourceRunId
+  targetKind
+  parentVersionId
+  proposedChange
+  rationale
+  verifierPlan
+  status
+  createdAt
+  resolvedAt
+```
+
+Allowed `status` values:
+
+```text
+open, accepted, rejected, superseded
+```
+
+## MongoDB Indexes
+
+| Collection | Index | Purpose |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `agent_runs` | `{ podId: 1, startedAt: -1 }` | Recent run history |
+| `agent_runs` | `{ podId: 1, strategyVersionId: 1 }` | Compare strategy performance |
+| `agent_trace_events` | `{ runId: 1, step: 1 }` | Reconstruct run |
+| `strategy_versions` | `{ podId: 1, kind: 1, status: 1 }` | Find active strategy |
+| `strategy_versions` | `{ podId: 1, createdAt: -1 }` | Version history |
+| `learning_proposals` | `{ podId: 1, status: 1 }` | Open candidate changes |
+
+## Learning Loop
+
+```text
+observe run -> score run -> propose change -> test candidate -> promote or reject
+```
+
+Agent learning must always connect these records:
+
+```text
+agent_run -> trace_events -> verifier result -> learning_proposal -> strategy_version
+```
+
+## Verifier Contract
+
+Every promoted strategy needs a verifier signal.
+
+Allowed verifier types:
+
+- Human accepted or dismissed outcome.
+- Test pass or fail result.
+- Reduced false positive rate.
+- Reduced intervention count with same or better accepted outcomes.
+- Faster successful run.
+- Better graph discovery precision.
+- Explicit demo operator approval.
+
+Self-evaluation alone is not enough to promote a strategy.
+
+## Relationship to Team Graph
+
+Agent learning can appear in the Team memory graph as activity and loop status,
+but it should not clutter the main risk graph by default.
+
+Graph discovery may show:
+
+- `agent_run` activity in the stream.
+- `strategy_versions` count in the learning loop.
+- A selected-node detail saying a policy changed because a prior outcome was
+  dismissed or accepted.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- Every strategy change has a parent.
+- Every promoted strategy cites evidence.
+- Rejected strategies are retained with a reason.
+- Agent traces are append-only.
+- The system can answer: "What changed, why, and did it help?"
+
diff --git a/docs/continual-learning/plan.md b/docs/continual-learning/plan.md
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+# Continual Learning Plan
+
+Status: draft  
+Goal: prove PodMan learns from outcomes in the hackathon demo
+
+## Must-Have Demo Loop
+
+1. Observe two engineers touching the same file.
+2. Store the observation and git state in MongoDB.
+3. Predict a collision.
+4. Send a card or Hermes message.
+5. Record accept or dismiss outcome.
+6. Adapt `team_model`.
+7. Show the learned graph edge or changed future behavior.
+
+## Build Order
+
+### R1: Make exact recall reliable
+
+- Normalize file paths.
+- Build stable memory signatures.
+- Look up prior accepted and dismissed outcomes.
+- Prefer exact recall over vector recall.
+
+### R2: Make outcomes update memory
+
+- Accepted real collision creates or strengthens ownership.
+- Accepted real collision creates `learned_from`.
+- Dismissed outcome lowers confidence or suppresses route.
+
+### R3: Expose loop data to the graph
+
+- Add optional loop snapshot.
+- Add optional activity stream.
+- Keep existing `PodGraph` fields stable.
+
+### R4: Show the observatory
+
+- Render observe/store/predict/outcome/adapt.
+- Show recent activity.
+- Make selected-node detail explain why memory changed.
+
+### R5: Prepare a clean demo chain
+
+- Ensure one collision -> intervention -> accepted outcome exists.
+- Ensure repeated signature recalls prior memory.
+- Verify graph shows learned ownership.
+
+## Nice-to-Have
+
+- Atlas Vector Search over memory summaries.
+- Confidence scoring per ownership edge.
+- Per-file memory timeline.
+- Strategy promotion tied to outcomes.
+
+## Cut
+
+- Raw screenshot storage.
+- Full autonomous training.
+- Broad dashboard metrics.
+- Multi-pod learning generalization.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- A judge can see what changed in memory.
+- The second similar event behaves differently.
+- Exact MongoDB records prove the loop.
+- The graph remains legible with real data.
+
diff --git a/docs/continual-learning/policy.md b/docs/continual-learning/policy.md
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+# Continual Learning Policy
+
+Status: draft  
+Scope: what PodMan may learn about a team
+
+## Prime Rule
+
+PodMan learns coordination patterns, not personal surveillance profiles.
+
+## Allowed Memory
+
+PodMan may store:
+
+- File and symbol ownership.
+- Active file overlap.
+- Repeated collision signatures.
+- Intervention history.
+- Accepted and dismissed outcomes.
+- Routing preferences by event type and severity.
+- Summaries of decisions relevant to future coordination.
+
+## Forbidden Memory
+
+PodMan must not store:
+
+- Raw screenshots.
+- Screen recordings.
+- Secrets or credentials.
+- Full terminal logs.
+- Personal performance judgments.
+- Private content unrelated to the coding task.
+
+## Evidence Policy
+
+| Evidence | Can predict? | Can adapt memory? |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Vision only | Yes, low confidence | No |
+| Git watcher | Yes | No, unless repeated |
+| GitHub state | Yes | No, unless verified |
+| Accepted real outcome | Yes | Yes |
+| Dismissed outcome | Yes, for suppression | Yes, as negative signal |
+| Verifier result | Yes | Yes |
+
+## Intervention Policy
+
+Use the least intrusive channel:
+
+1. Watch quietly.
+2. Card.
+3. Hermes message.
+4. Voice.
+
+Voice is only for urgent, high-confidence, time-sensitive risks.
+
+## Adaptation Policy
+
+Allowed adaptations:
+
+- Add learned ownership after accepted real outcome.
+- Raise confidence for repeated accepted signatures.
+- Lower confidence for dismissed signatures.
+- Prefer the previously accepted intervention kind.
+- Suppress repeated low-value warnings.
+
+Disallowed adaptations:
+
+- Broad threshold changes from one example.
+- Treating vector similarity as proof.
+- Hiding dismissals.
+- Making interruption more aggressive without evidence.
+
+## Retention Policy
+
+Keep:
+
+- Outcomes.
+- Signatures.
+- Team model memory.
+- Strategy metrics.
+
+Summarize or expire:
+
+- Old observations.
+- Low-confidence vision-only events.
+- Detailed trace text.
+
+Delete immediately:
+
+- Secrets.
+- Accidental raw sensitive captures.
+
+## Demo Policy
+
+Seeded data is acceptable only if the demo script is honest about it. Live
+learning requires a live or staged outcome write that visibly updates the graph
+or future decision.
+
diff --git a/docs/continual-learning/prompt.md b/docs/continual-learning/prompt.md
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+# Continual Learning Prompt
+
+Use this prompt for the agent that decides what PodMan should remember from a
+coordination event.
+
+## Prompt
+
+You are PodMan's continual-learning memory agent.
+
+Your job is to inspect observations, collisions, interventions, and outcomes,
+then decide what team memory should be updated. You must separate observed
+facts, inferred risks, human outcomes, and durable learned memory.
+
+Do not claim something was learned unless an accepted real outcome, verifier, or
+human label supports it.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Pod id.
+- Recent engineer states.
+- Recent observations.
+- Candidate collision.
+- Prior exact-signature memory.
+- Intervention record.
+- Outcome record.
+- Current team model.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Normalize file and symbol.
+2. Build exact signature.
+3. Check prior accepted and dismissed outcomes.
+4. Classify the current event.
+5. Decide whether memory should change.
+6. Emit the graph impact.
+7. Write a short explanation.
+
+## Output Format
+
+```text
+Event
+- Signature:
+- Engineers:
+- File:
+- Symbol:
+- Evidence:
+
+Prior Memory
+- Accepted matches:
+- Dismissed matches:
+- Ownership:
+
+Decision
+- Memory action:
+- Confidence:
+- Reason:
+
+Graph Impact
+- Nodes:
+- Edges:
+- Activity text:
+
+Safety
+- Sensitive data present:
+- Redaction needed:
+```
+
+## Memory Actions
+
+Allowed actions:
+
+- no_change
+- strengthen_signature
+- weaken_signature
+- create_learned_owner
+- update_route_preference
+- suppress_signature
+- request_human_label
+
+## Hard Rules
+
+- Exact recall before vector recall.
+- Dismissals are learning signals.
+- `learned_from` requires accepted real outcome.
+- Store summaries, not raw screen content.
+- Prefer less intrusive future behavior when uncertain.
+
diff --git a/docs/continual-learning/spec.md b/docs/continual-learning/spec.md
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+# Continual Learning Spec
+
+Status: draft  
+Scope: how PodMan learns team memory from live work and outcomes  
+Owner: continual learning / Team memory
+
+## Purpose
+
+Continual learning is the product proof that PodMan gets more useful from use.
+It learns team-level coordination memory: ownership, repeated collisions,
+accepted interventions, dismissed noise, and preferred routing.
+
+The visible loop:
+
+```text
+observe -> store -> predict -> outcome -> adapt
+```
+
+## Source Collections
+
+### `engineer_states`
+
+Latest per-engineer state from vision and local git.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `podId`
+- `name`
+- `currentFile`
+- `changedFiles`
+- `branch`
+- `confidence`
+- `visionUpdatedAt`
+- `gitUpdatedAt`
+- `updatedAt`
+
+### `observations`
+
+Structured perception events.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `podId`
+- `engineerId`
+- `currentFile`
+- `symbol`
+- `activity`
+- `confidence`
+- `observedAt`
+
+### `collisions`
+
+Predicted risk events.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `id`
+- `podId`
+- `file`
+- `symbol`
+- `engineers`
+- `severity`
+- `status`
+- `memorySignature`
+- `detectedAt`
+
+### `interventions`
+
+Actions PodMan sent or suggested.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `id`
+- `podId`
+- `collisionId`
+- `kind`
+- `channel`
+- `message`
+- `suggestedAction`
+- `createdAt`
+
+### `outcomes`
+
+Human or verifier supervision.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `id`
+- `podId`
+- `interventionId`
+- `collisionId`
+- `accepted`
+- `wasRealCollision`
+- `learnedOwner`
+- `recordedAt`
+
+### `team_model`
+
+Durable pod memory.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `podId`
+- `graph`
+- `ownership`
+- `collisionSignatures`
+- `interventionPolicy`
+- `updatedAt`
+
+### `memory_vectors`
+
+Optional semantic recall. Exact recall comes first.
+
+Key fields:
+
+- `podId`
+- `sourceKind`
+- `sourceId`
+- `text`
+- `embedding`
+- `embeddingModel`
+- `tags`
+
+## Learning Rules
+
+### Observe
+
+Write structured evidence from vision, git, GitHub, and agent traces.
+
+### Store
+
+Persist source records and materialized summaries. Do not store raw screenshots
+or recordings.
+
+### Predict
+
+Create a collision when multiple engineers converge on the same normalized file
+or symbol and at least one signal shows active or unpushed work.
+
+### Outcome
+
+Record whether the intervention was accepted, dismissed, real, or false.
+
+### Adapt
+
+Only accepted real outcomes can create `learned_from` graph edges. Dismissals
+adapt suppression, routing, or confidence.
+
+## Exact Signature
+
+Use deterministic signatures:
+
+```text
+podId:eventType:normalizedFile:symbol:sortedEngineers
+```
+
+Rules:
+
+- Sort engineer names.
+- Normalize file paths.
+- Use `*` for missing symbol.
+- Never include timestamps.
+
+## UI-Facing Loop Snapshot
+
+The graph response may include:
+
+```text
+loop
+  activeStep
+  steps[]
+    key
+    label
+    value
+    detail
+    status
+```
+
+Step mapping:
+
+| Step | Source |
+| --- | --- |
+| Observe | recent observations and git updates |
+| Store | team model, graph records, memory vectors |
+| Predict | open collisions |
+| Outcome | accepted and dismissed outcomes |
+| Adapt | learned owners, learned edges, strategy changes |
+
+## Activity Stream
+
+The graph response may include:
+
+```text
+activity[]
+  id
+  at
+  kind
+  title
+  detail
+  nodeId
+  edgeId
+```
+
+Allowed `kind` values:
+
+```text
+editing, collision, intervention, outcome, learned, agent
+```
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- The system can show one accepted outcome changing future memory.
+- Exact recall works without vector search.
+- The Team memory graph can explain the learning loop.
+- Dismissals and false positives are retained.
+- The demo does not rely on raw screenshots or hidden state.
+
diff --git a/docs/graph-discovery/plan.md b/docs/graph-discovery/plan.md
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+# Graph Discovery Plan
+
+Status: draft  
+Goal: make MongoDB graph discovery visible as a dynamic learning observatory
+
+## Must-Have
+
+1. Keep live materializer as source of graph truth.
+2. Add optional loop and activity fields.
+3. Build a dynamic graph layout.
+4. Default to risk path.
+5. Make selected-node detail explain the story.
+
+## Build Order
+
+### R1: Stabilize discovered graph
+
+- Keep file and engineer noise filters.
+- Keep collision collapse.
+- Keep priority for accepted-outcome paths.
+- Keep graph size capped.
+
+### R2: Add observatory data
+
+- Compute learning-loop snapshot.
+- Compute activity stream.
+- Preserve current graph contract.
+
+### R3: Improve path selection
+
+- Pick one primary risk path.
+- Include learned path when present.
+- Dim unrelated collisions and repeated interventions.
+
+### R4: Render dynamically
+
+- Use `d3-force` or animated layered layout.
+- Make nodes draggable.
+- Curve or bundle edges.
+- Animate `learned_from`.
+
+### R5: Verify with real data
+
+- Fetch live `demo-pod` graph.
+- Confirm labels do not collide badly.
+- Confirm red edges do not dominate.
+- Confirm activity and loop explain the graph.
+
+## Nice-to-Have
+
+- Reachability panel using `$graphLookup`.
+- Hover path previews.
+- Edge bundling by file or collision.
+- Time scrubber for graph snapshots.
+
+## Cut
+
+- Generic analytics dashboard.
+- Large graph database migration.
+- Rendering every historical event.
+- Static fixed-column final layout.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- Risk path is obvious in 10 seconds.
+- Learned path is visible when data exists.
+- Whole graph mode exists but is not the default.
+- The graph remains backed by MongoDB, not hardcoded mock data.
+
diff --git a/docs/graph-discovery/policy.md b/docs/graph-discovery/policy.md
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+# Graph Discovery Policy
+
+Status: draft  
+Scope: graph hygiene, evidence thresholds, and UI truthfulness
+
+## Prime Rule
+
+The graph must be sparse enough to explain the learning loop and truthful enough
+to audit from MongoDB.
+
+## Node Policy
+
+Create nodes only when they add explanation value.
+
+Allowed:
+
+- Current engineers.
+- Real files.
+- Current or recent collisions.
+- Interventions tied to surviving collisions.
+- Learned ownership paths.
+
+Avoid:
+
+- Test engineers.
+- Scratch files.
+- URLs or environment values misread as files.
+- Repeated identical intervention diamonds.
+- Orphan nodes with no story value.
+
+## Edge Policy
+
+Edges need evidence.
+
+| Edge | Required evidence |
+| --- | --- |
+| `editing` | observation or git state |
+| `touches` | file involved in collision |
+| `collides` | collision prediction |
+| `warns` | intervention record |
+| `learned_from` | accepted real outcome |
+| `owns` | learned or configured ownership |
+
+## De-Hairball Policy
+
+Default mode must not show every relationship equally.
+
+Rules:
+
+- Default to risk path.
+- Collapse repeated collision signatures.
+- Cap files and collisions.
+- Dim non-risk edges.
+- Bundle or curve dense edges.
+- Hide low-priority labels until hover or select.
+- Prefer selected-node explanation over labels everywhere.
+
+## Truthfulness Policy
+
+- Do not show `learned_from` for orphaned or dismissed outcomes.
+- Do not label vector similarity as learned memory.
+- Do not show demo seed as live learning unless labeled.
+- Do not hide false positives from activity or memory.
+
+## Privacy Policy
+
+Graph labels should not expose secrets, raw terminal output, or sensitive file
+contents. File paths are acceptable when they are repo paths and not secret
+values.
+
+## Visual Policy
+
+Semantic colors stay stable:
+
+- Engineer: blue.
+- File: slate.
+- Feature: amber.
+- Collision: red.
+- Intervention: violet.
+- Learned: violet dashed edge.
+
+Chrome should use the app's light shadcn tokens.
+
diff --git a/docs/graph-discovery/prompt.md b/docs/graph-discovery/prompt.md
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+# Graph Discovery Prompt
+
+Use this prompt for an agent that materializes or reviews PodMan's Team memory
+graph.
+
+## Prompt
+
+You are PodMan's graph discovery agent.
+
+Your job is to turn MongoDB records into a sparse, truthful graph that explains
+the continual-learning loop. Do not maximize node count. Maximize legibility and
+evidence.
+
+The default output should show the risk path and learned path, not every
+possible edge.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Pod id.
+- Pod roster.
+- Recent engineer states.
+- Recent observations.
+- Collisions.
+- Interventions.
+- Outcomes.
+- Team model.
+- Existing graph nodes and edges.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Normalize file paths.
+2. Remove noise.
+3. Create engineer and file nodes.
+4. Collapse repeated collisions by signature.
+5. Preserve accepted-outcome paths.
+6. Create intervention nodes for surviving collisions.
+7. Create learned edges only from accepted real outcomes.
+8. Select the primary risk path.
+9. Build activity and loop summaries.
+10. Explain selected-node stories.
+
+## Output Format
+
+```text
+Graph Summary
+- Pod:
+- Nodes:
+- Edges:
+- Primary risk path:
+- Learned path:
+
+Discovery Decisions
+- Collapsed:
+- Dropped as noise:
+- Preserved because learned:
+
+Loop
+- Observe:
+- Store:
+- Predict:
+- Outcome:
+- Adapt:
+
+Activity
+- Recent events:
+
+Risks
+- Missing evidence:
+- Potential hairball:
+- Demo caveat:
+```
+
+## Hard Rules
+
+- No `learned_from` without accepted real outcome.
+- No raw screenshots or secrets in labels.
+- Do not rewrite the backend materializer unless explicitly asked.
+- Prefer additive graph fields.
+- Default to risk path.
+- Keep whole graph optional.
+
diff --git a/docs/graph-discovery/spec.md b/docs/graph-discovery/spec.md
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+# Graph Discovery Spec
+
+Status: draft  
+Scope: how PodMan discovers graph nodes, edges, risk paths, and learning paths from MongoDB  
+Owner: graph discovery / Team memory observatory
+
+## Purpose
+
+Graph discovery turns MongoDB memory into a legible Team memory graph. It is not
+only layout. It decides which relationships matter, which path is highlighted,
+and which evidence explains the graph.
+
+The graph must answer:
+
+1. Who is working?
+2. Which files or symbols overlap?
+3. Where is the risk?
+4. What did PodMan do?
+5. What outcome changed memory?
+
+## Source Data
+
+Graph discovery reads:
+
+- `pods`
+- `engineer_states`
+- `observations`
+- `collisions`
+- `interventions`
+- `outcomes`
+- `team_model`
+- `graph_nodes`
+- `graph_edges`
+- optional `memory_vectors`
+- optional `agent_runs`
+- optional `strategy_versions`
+
+## UI Graph Contract
+
+```text
+PodGraph
+  podId
+  generatedAt
+  nodes
+  edges
+  metrics
+  loop?
+  activity?
+```
+
+Node kinds:
+
+```text
+engineer, feature, file, collision, intervention
+```
+
+Edge kinds:
+
+```text
+owns, editing, touches, collides, warns, learned_from
+```
+
+## Discovery Rules
+
+### Engineer nodes
+
+Create from pod roster, recent observations, git state, or collision membership.
+
+### File nodes
+
+Create only from normalized real file paths. Reject noise such as URLs, env
+values, scratch names, and non-file strings.
+
+### Collision nodes
+
+Create from distinct collision signatures. Collapse repeats. Prioritize
+collisions referenced by accepted outcomes.
+
+### Intervention nodes
+
+Create one visible intervention per surviving collision unless whole-graph mode
+explicitly expands history.
+
+### Learned paths
+
+Create `learned_from` only when an accepted real outcome links an intervention
+to a durable memory update.
+
+## Path Modes
+
+### Risk path
+
+Default mode. Highlight the clearest current chain:
+
+```text
+engineer -> file -> collision -> intervention -> learned owner
+```
+
+Dim unrelated graph material.
+
+### Learning edges
+
+Highlight `learned_from`, `owns`, and the outcomes that produced them.
+
+### Whole graph
+
+Show all materialized nodes and edges with de-emphasized non-critical edges.
+
+## MongoDB Traversal
+
+Use `graph_edges` for reachability:
+
+```text
+source -> target -> next target
+```
+
+Primary traversal questions:
+
+- What risks does this engineer reach?
+- Which files feed this collision?
+- Which intervention came from this collision?
+- Which learned owner came from this intervention?
+
+## Metrics
+
+Minimum metrics:
+
+- Learned owners.
+- Open risk paths.
+- Accept rate.
+
+Optional metrics:
+
+- Observations.
+- Interventions.
+- Memory vectors.
+- Strategy versions.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- Default graph is not a hairball.
+- Every visible learned edge has outcome evidence.
+- Every selected node can explain why it matters.
+- Activity stream matches graph events.
+- Graph can be rebuilt from MongoDB source records.
+
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/GraphView.tsx b/frontend/src/components/GraphView.tsx
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--- a/frontend/src/components/GraphView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/GraphView.tsx
@@ -1,111 +1,36 @@
-import { useEffect, useMemo, useState, type CSSProperties } from 'react';
-import type { PodGraph, PodGraphNode, PodGraphEdge, PodGraphNodeKind } from '@podman/shared';
-import { fetchPodGraph } from '../lib/graph.js';
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import type { PodGraph } from '@podman/shared';
+import { fetchPodGraph, backendEventsUrl } from '../lib/graph.js';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
-import { Badge } from '@/components/ui/badge';
+import { ToggleGroup, ToggleGroupItem } from '@/components/ui/toggle-group';
+import { GraphCanvas } from './graph/GraphCanvas.js';
+import { MetricsRail } from './graph/MetricsRail.js';
+import { LearningLoop } from './graph/LearningLoop.js';
+import { ActivityStream } from './graph/ActivityStream.js';
+import { SelectedNodePanel } from './graph/SelectedNodePanel.js';
+import { highlightFor, flowNarrative, NODE_LEGEND, EDGE_LEGEND, type Mode } from './graph/encoding.js';
 
-type Mode = 'risk' | 'learn' | 'all';
+const POLL_MS = 5000;
 
-// Fixed, light-readable hues for the node/edge encoding (kept stable across
-// light/dark so kinds stay distinguishable; the chrome uses shadcn tokens).
-const BLUE = '#2563eb';
-const SLATE = '#475569';
-const SLATE_EDGE = '#94a3b8';
-const SLATE_FAINT = '#cbd5e1';
-const AMBER = '#d97706';
-const RED = '#dc2626';
-const VIOLET = '#7c3aed';
-
-const KIND_COLOR: Record<PodGraphNodeKind, string> = {
-  engineer: BLUE,
-  file: SLATE,
-  feature: AMBER,
-  collision: RED,
-  intervention: VIOLET,
-};
-
-const EDGE: Record<PodGraphEdge['kind'], { c: string; w: number; dash?: boolean }> = {
-  owns: { c: BLUE, w: 2.6 },
-  editing: { c: SLATE_EDGE, w: 2 },
-  touches: { c: SLATE_FAINT, w: 1.6 },
-  collides: { c: RED, w: 3.2 },
-  warns: { c: AMBER, w: 3.2 },
-  learned_from: { c: VIOLET, w: 2.4, dash: true },
-};
-
-function NodeShape({ node }: { node: PodGraphNode }) {
-  const c = KIND_COLOR[node.kind];
-  const { x, y } = node;
-  switch (node.kind) {
-    case 'engineer':
-      return <rect x={x - 15} y={y - 15} width={30} height={30} rx={4} fill={c} />;
-    case 'file':
-      return (
-        <rect
-          x={x - 15}
-          y={y - 15}
-          width={30}
-          height={30}
-          rx={4}
-          fill="none"
-          stroke={c}
-          strokeWidth={2.6}
-        />
-      );
-    case 'feature':
-      return <circle cx={x} cy={y} r={17} fill={c} />;
-    case 'collision':
-      return <polygon points={`${x},${y - 18} ${x + 17},${y + 13} ${x - 17},${y + 13}`} fill={c} />;
-    case 'intervention':
-      return (
-        <polygon points={`${x},${y - 18} ${x + 18},${y} ${x},${y + 18} ${x - 18},${y}`} fill={c} />
-      );
-    default:
-      return null;
+// Note: pm-enter must NOT use animation-fill-mode (both/forwards) — a held final
+// keyframe (opacity:1) would override the .pm-dim cascade and defeat dimming.
+const GRAPH_CSS = `
+  .pm-node{cursor:grab;transition:opacity .25s ease}
+  .pm-node:active{cursor:grabbing}
+  .pm-edge{transition:opacity .25s ease}
+  .pm-lbl{fill:var(--foreground);font-size:11px;font-weight:500;pointer-events:none;
+    paint-order:stroke;stroke:var(--card);stroke-width:3.5px;stroke-linejoin:round}
+  .pm-dim{opacity:.14}
+  .pm-enter{animation:pm-fade .45s ease}
+  .pm-dash{animation:pm-flow 1s linear infinite}
+  .pm-pulse{animation:pm-pulse 1.7s ease-in-out infinite}
+  @keyframes pm-fade{from{opacity:0}to{opacity:1}}
+  @keyframes pm-flow{to{stroke-dashoffset:-26}}
+  @keyframes pm-pulse{0%,100%{opacity:.45}50%{opacity:1}}
+  @media (prefers-reduced-motion:reduce){
+    .pm-enter,.pm-dash,.pm-pulse{animation:none}
   }
-}
-
-interface Highlight {
-  nodes: Set<string>;
-  edges: Set<string>;
-}
-
-function highlightFor(graph: PodGraph, mode: Mode, selected: string | null): Highlight | null {
-  if (selected) {
-    const es = graph.edges.filter((e) => e.source === selected || e.target === selected);
-    return {
-      nodes: new Set([selected, ...es.flatMap((e) => [e.source, e.target])]),
-      edges: new Set(es.map((e) => e.id)),
-    };
-  }
-  if (mode === 'all') return null;
-  const kinds: PodGraphEdge['kind'][] =
-    mode === 'risk' ? ['collides', 'warns', 'learned_from'] : ['learned_from', 'warns'];
-  const collisions = new Set(graph.nodes.filter((n) => n.kind === 'collision').map((n) => n.id));
-  const es = graph.edges.filter(
-    (e) =>
-      kinds.includes(e.kind) ||
-      (mode === 'risk' && (collisions.has(e.target) || collisions.has(e.source))),
-  );
-  return {
-    nodes: new Set(es.flatMap((e) => [e.source, e.target])),
-    edges: new Set(es.map((e) => e.id)),
-  };
-}
-
-const LEGEND: Array<{ label: string; swatch: CSSProperties }> = [
-  { label: 'engineer', swatch: { background: BLUE } },
-  { label: 'file', swatch: { border: `2px solid ${SLATE}` } },
-  { label: 'feature', swatch: { background: AMBER, borderRadius: '50%' } },
-  { label: 'collision', swatch: { background: RED, clipPath: 'polygon(50% 0,100% 100%,0 100%)' } },
-  { label: 'intervention', swatch: { background: VIOLET, transform: 'rotate(45deg)' } },
-];
-
-function statusColor(status: string): string {
-  if (status === 'risk') return RED;
-  if (status === 'learned') return VIOLET;
-  return 'var(--foreground)';
-}
+`;
 
 export function GraphView({ podId, onClose }: { podId: string; onClose: () => void }) {
   const [graph, setGraph] = useState<PodGraph | null>(null);
@@ -115,198 +40,174 @@ export function GraphView({ podId, onClose }: { podId: string; onClose: () => vo
 
   useEffect(() => {
     let alive = true;
+    let nudge: number | null = null;
     setGraph(null);
     setError(null);
-    fetchPodGraph(podId)
-      .then((g) => alive && setGraph(g))
-      .catch((e: unknown) => alive && setError(e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e)));
+    setSelected(null);
+
+    const load = () =>
+      fetchPodGraph(podId)
+        .then((g) => {
+          if (alive) {
+            setGraph(g);
+            setError(null);
+          }
+        })
+        .catch((e: unknown) => {
+          if (alive) setError(e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e));
+        });
+
+    void load();
+    const poll = window.setInterval(() => void load(), POLL_MS);
+
+    // Best-effort realtime nudge: refetch (debounced) when the agent broadcasts.
+    let ws: WebSocket | null = null;
+    try {
+      ws = new WebSocket(backendEventsUrl());
+      ws.onmessage = () => {
+        if (nudge != null) return;
+        nudge = window.setTimeout(() => {
+          nudge = null;
+          void load();
+        }, 800);
+      };
+    } catch {
+      /* event bus is optional */
+    }
+
     return () => {
       alive = false;
+      window.clearInterval(poll);
+      if (nudge != null) window.clearTimeout(nudge);
+      ws?.close();
     };
   }, [podId]);
 
-  const hi = useMemo(
-    () => (graph ? highlightFor(graph, mode, selected) : null),
-    [graph, mode, selected],
-  );
   const nodeById = useMemo(() => new Map((graph?.nodes ?? []).map((n) => [n.id, n])), [graph]);
-  const sel = selected ? nodeById.get(selected) : undefined;
-  const relCount = selected
-    ? (graph?.edges ?? []).filter((e) => e.source === selected || e.target === selected).length
-    : 0;
+  // A selected node can vanish across a poll/WS refresh. Ignore a stale id so the
+  // graph doesn't dim entirely (highlightFor would otherwise light only a dead id).
+  const liveSelected = selected && nodeById.has(selected) ? selected : null;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (selected && graph && !nodeById.has(selected)) setSelected(null);
+  }, [graph, nodeById, selected]);
 
-  const dimNode = (id: string) => (hi ? !hi.nodes.has(id) : false);
-  const dimEdge = (id: string) => (hi ? !hi.edges.has(id) : false);
-  const hotEdge = (id: string) => (hi ? hi.edges.has(id) : false);
+  const highlight = useMemo(
+    () => (graph ? highlightFor(graph, mode, liveSelected) : null),
+    [graph, mode, liveSelected],
+  );
+  const sel = liveSelected ? nodeById.get(liveSelected) : undefined;
+  const relCount = liveSelected
+    ? (graph?.edges ?? []).filter((e) => e.source === liveSelected || e.target === liveSelected)
+        .length
+    : 0;
+  const flow = graph && liveSelected ? flowNarrative(graph, liveSelected) : '';
 
   function pick(next: Mode) {
     setMode(next);
     setSelected(null);
   }
 
-  const toggleVariant = (m: Mode) => (mode === m && !selected ? 'default' : 'outline');
-
   return (
     <div className="min-h-screen bg-background text-foreground">
+      <style>{GRAPH_CSS}</style>
       <div className="mx-auto w-full max-w-7xl px-4 py-4 sm:px-6 lg:px-8">
-        <style>{`
-          .pm-node{cursor:pointer}
-          .pm-lbl{fill:var(--foreground);font-size:11px;font-weight:500}
-          .pm-dim{opacity:.18;transition:opacity .25s}
-        `}</style>
-
-        <div className="overflow-hidden rounded-xl border bg-card text-card-foreground">
-          <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-b px-5 py-4">
-            <div>
-              <h2 className="text-base font-medium">Team memory</h2>
-              <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">What PodMan learned · {podId}</p>
+        <div className="overflow-hidden rounded-xl border bg-card text-card-foreground shadow-sm">
+          {/* Header */}
+          <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-3 border-b px-5 py-4">
+            <div className="min-w-0">
+              <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
+                <h2 className="font-heading text-base font-medium">Team memory</h2>
+                <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full border px-2 py-0.5 text-[0.65rem] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+                  <span className="pm-pulse inline-block size-1.5 rounded-full bg-[#16a34a]" />
+                  Live
+                </span>
+              </div>
+              <p className="mt-0.5 truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+                What PodMan learned · {podId}
+              </p>
             </div>
             <Button variant="outline" size="sm" onClick={onClose}>
               ← Pods
             </Button>
           </div>
 
-          <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 border-b px-4 py-3">
-            <Button variant={toggleVariant('risk')} size="sm" onClick={() => pick('risk')}>
-              Risk path
-            </Button>
-            <Button variant={toggleVariant('learn')} size="sm" onClick={() => pick('learn')}>
-              Learning edges
-            </Button>
-            <Button variant={toggleVariant('all')} size="sm" onClick={() => pick('all')}>
-              Whole graph
-            </Button>
+          {/* Toggles */}
+          <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2 border-b px-4 py-3">
+            <ToggleGroup
+              type="single"
+              value={mode}
+              onValueChange={(v) => v && pick(v as Mode)}
+              variant="outline"
+              size="sm"
+            >
+              <ToggleGroupItem value="risk">Risk path</ToggleGroupItem>
+              <ToggleGroupItem value="learn">Learning edges</ToggleGroupItem>
+              <ToggleGroupItem value="all">Whole graph</ToggleGroupItem>
+            </ToggleGroup>
+            <span className="ml-auto hidden text-xs text-muted-foreground sm:inline">
+              Drag to rearrange · double-click to release · click to inspect
+            </span>
           </div>
 
           {error && <p className="px-4 py-4 text-sm text-destructive">Graph error: {error}</p>}
           {!graph && !error && (
-            <p className="px-4 py-4 text-sm text-muted-foreground">Loading graph…</p>
+            <p className="px-4 py-10 text-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">Loading graph…</p>
           )}
 
           {graph && (
             <>
-              <div className="grid lg:grid-cols-[190px_1fr_250px]">
-                <div className="space-y-3 p-4">
-                  <p className="text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
-                    Workflow metrics
-                  </p>
-                  {graph.metrics.map((m) => (
-                    <div key={m.label} className="rounded-lg border bg-card px-3 py-2.5">
-                      <p className="text-2xl font-medium tabular-nums">{m.value}</p>
-                      <p className="mt-1 text-xs font-medium uppercase text-muted-foreground">
-                        {m.label}
-                      </p>
-                      <p className="mt-1 text-xs leading-snug text-muted-foreground">{m.detail}</p>
-                    </div>
-                  ))}
+              {/* Metrics · graph · learning loop */}
+              <div className="grid gap-4 p-4 lg:grid-cols-[180px_minmax(0,1fr)_212px]">
+                <MetricsRail metrics={graph.metrics} />
+
+                <div className="flex min-h-[440px] flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl border bg-card">
+                  <GraphCanvas
+                    graph={graph}
+                    highlight={highlight}
+                    selected={liveSelected}
+                    onSelect={setSelected}
+                  />
                 </div>
 
-                <div className="min-h-[472px] border-y bg-card lg:border-x lg:border-y-0">
-                  <svg
-                    viewBox="0 0 720 472"
-                    role="img"
-                    aria-label="PodMan team-memory graph"
-                    className="block h-auto w-full"
-                  >
-                    {graph.edges.map((e) => {
-                      const a = nodeById.get(e.source);
-                      const b = nodeById.get(e.target);
-                      if (!a || !b) return null;
-                      const s = EDGE[e.kind];
-                      return (
-                        <line
-                          key={e.id}
-                          className={dimEdge(e.id) ? 'pm-dim' : undefined}
-                          x1={a.x}
-                          y1={a.y}
-                          x2={b.x}
-                          y2={b.y}
-                          stroke={s.c}
-                          strokeWidth={hotEdge(e.id) ? s.w + 1.6 : s.w}
-                          strokeDasharray={s.dash ? '7 6' : undefined}
-                          strokeLinecap="round"
-                        />
-                      );
-                    })}
-                    {graph.nodes.map((n) => (
-                      <g
-                        key={n.id}
-                        className={`pm-node ${dimNode(n.id) ? 'pm-dim' : ''}`}
-                        role="button"
-                        tabIndex={0}
-                        aria-label={`${n.kind}: ${n.label}`}
-                        onClick={() => setSelected((cur) => (cur === n.id ? null : n.id))}
-                        onKeyDown={(ev) => {
-                          if (ev.key === 'Enter' || ev.key === ' ') {
-                            ev.preventDefault();
-                            setSelected((cur) => (cur === n.id ? null : n.id));
-                          }
-                        }}
-                      >
-                        <NodeShape node={n} />
-                        <text className="pm-lbl" x={n.x} y={n.y + 33} textAnchor="middle">
-                          {n.label}
-                        </text>
-                      </g>
-                    ))}
-                  </svg>
-                </div>
+                {graph.loop?.length ? (
+                  <LearningLoop stages={graph.loop} />
+                ) : (
+                  <div />
+                )}
+              </div>
 
-                <div className="border-t bg-muted p-4 lg:border-l lg:border-t-0">
-                  {sel ? (
-                    <>
-                      <p className="text-xs uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
-                        {sel.kind}
-                      </p>
-                      <h3 className="mb-3 mt-1 text-lg font-medium">{sel.label}</h3>
-                      <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-b py-1.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
-                        <span>Status</span>
-                        <Badge variant="outline" style={{ color: statusColor(sel.status) }}>
-                          {sel.status}
-                        </Badge>
-                      </div>
-                      <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-b py-1.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
-                        <span>Relationships</span>
-                        <span className="font-medium text-foreground">{relCount}</span>
-                      </div>
-                      <p className="mt-2.5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">
-                        {sel.summary}
-                      </p>
-                    </>
-                  ) : (
-                    <>
-                      <p className="text-xs uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
-                        Continual learning
-                      </p>
-                      <h3 className="mb-3 mt-1 text-lg font-medium">It learned</h3>
-                      <p className="text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">
-                        The violet{' '}
-                        <span className="font-medium" style={{ color: VIOLET }}>
-                          learned_from
-                        </span>{' '}
-                        edges are ownership PodMan retained from accepted interventions — the graph
-                        gets sharper every session. Click any node to trace its relationships.
-                      </p>
-                    </>
-                  )}
+              {/* Activity stream · selected node */}
+              <div className="grid gap-4 border-t px-4 py-4 lg:grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)_320px]">
+                <div className="rounded-xl border bg-card p-4">
+                  <ActivityStream events={graph.activity ?? []} />
+                </div>
+                <div className="rounded-xl border bg-muted/40 p-4">
+                  <SelectedNodePanel node={sel} relCount={relCount} flow={flow} mode={mode} />
                 </div>
               </div>
 
-              <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-3 border-t px-4 py-2.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-                {LEGEND.map((l) => (
+              {/* Legend */}
+              <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-3 gap-y-1.5 border-t px-4 py-2.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+                {NODE_LEGEND.map((l) => (
                   <span key={l.label} className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
                     <span className="inline-block size-3" style={l.swatch} />
                     {l.label}
                   </span>
                 ))}
-                <span className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
-                  <span className="inline-block h-[3px] w-3" style={{ background: RED }} />
-                  collides
-                </span>
-                <span className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
-                  <span className="inline-block h-[3px] w-3" style={{ background: VIOLET }} />
-                  learned_from
-                </span>
+                <span className="mx-1 h-3 w-px bg-border" aria-hidden />
+                {EDGE_LEGEND.map((l) => (
+                  <span key={l.label} className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
+                    <span
+                      className="inline-block h-[3px] w-3.5"
+                      style={
+                        l.dash
+                          ? { backgroundImage: `repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, ${l.color} 0 3px, transparent 3px 6px)` }
+                          : { background: l.color }
+                      }
+                    />
+                    {l.label}
+                  </span>
+                ))}
               </div>
             </>
           )}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/ActivityStream.tsx b/frontend/src/components/graph/ActivityStream.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..931ce04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/ActivityStream.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import type { ActivityEvent } from '@podman/shared';
+import { ScrollArea } from '@/components/ui/scroll-area';
+import { ACTIVITY_TAG } from './encoding.js';
+
+const fmtTime = new Intl.DateTimeFormat([], { hour: '2-digit', minute: '2-digit', hour12: false });
+
+function timeOf(at: string): string {
+  const t = new Date(at).getTime();
+  return Number.isFinite(t) ? fmtTime.format(t) : '--:--';
+}
+
+export function ActivityStream({ events }: { events: ActivityEvent[] }) {
+  return (
+    <div className="flex h-full flex-col">
+      <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+        Activity stream
+      </p>
+      {events.length === 0 ? (
+        <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">No activity yet.</p>
+      ) : (
+        <ScrollArea className="h-[176px] pr-3">
+          <ul className="space-y-1.5">
+            {events.map((e) => {
+              const tag = ACTIVITY_TAG[e.kind];
+              return (
+                <li key={e.id} className="pm-enter flex items-start gap-2.5 text-sm">
+                  <span className="mt-0.5 shrink-0 font-mono text-xs tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">
+                    {timeOf(e.at)}
+                  </span>
+                  <span
+                    className="mt-0.5 shrink-0 rounded px-1.5 py-0.5 text-[0.6rem] font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide"
+                    style={{ color: tag.color, background: `${tag.color}1a` }}
+                  >
+                    {tag.label}
+                  </span>
+                  <span className="min-w-0 flex-1 leading-snug text-foreground/90">{e.text}</span>
+                </li>
+              );
+            })}
+          </ul>
+        </ScrollArea>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/GraphCanvas.tsx b/frontend/src/components/graph/GraphCanvas.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b87ed79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/GraphCanvas.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,333 @@
+import {
+  useCallback,
+  useEffect,
+  useRef,
+  useState,
+  type ReactElement,
+  type PointerEvent,
+} from 'react';
+import type { PodGraph, PodGraphNode, PodGraphNodeKind } from '@podman/shared';
+import { ForceSim } from './forceSim.js';
+import { EDGE, KIND_COLOR, nodeRadius, type Highlight } from './encoding.js';
+
+const W = 760;
+const H = 480;
+const MARGIN = 48;
+
+/** Map the server's 0..720×0..472 layout into the canvas as a seed position. */
+function mapX(x: number): number {
+  return MARGIN + (Math.max(0, Math.min(720, x)) / 720) * (W - 2 * MARGIN);
+}
+function mapY(y: number): number {
+  return MARGIN + (Math.max(0, Math.min(472, y)) / 472) * (H - 2 * MARGIN);
+}
+
+function linkDistance(kind: string): number {
+  if (kind === 'collides') return 122;
+  if (kind === 'owns') return 104;
+  if (kind === 'learned_from') return 150;
+  return 134;
+}
+function linkStrength(strength: number): number {
+  return Math.max(0.18, Math.min(0.9, strength));
+}
+
+/** Stable +/- so parallel edges between the same pair fan to opposite sides. */
+function curveSign(id: string): number {
+  let h = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < id.length; i++) h = (h + id.charCodeAt(i)) % 2;
+  return h === 0 ? 1 : -1;
+}
+
+function edgePath(ax: number, ay: number, bx: number, by: number, id: string): string {
+  const dx = bx - ax;
+  const dy = by - ay;
+  const len = Math.hypot(dx, dy) || 1;
+  const nx = -dy / len;
+  const ny = dx / len;
+  const off = curveSign(id) * len * 0.13;
+  const cx = (ax + bx) / 2 + nx * off;
+  const cy = (ay + by) / 2 + ny * off;
+  return `M${ax.toFixed(1)},${ay.toFixed(1)} Q${cx.toFixed(1)},${cy.toFixed(1)} ${bx.toFixed(1)},${by.toFixed(1)}`;
+}
+
+function nodeShape(
+  kind: PodGraphNodeKind,
+  color: string,
+  cx: number,
+  cy: number,
+  r: number,
+): ReactElement | null {
+  switch (kind) {
+    case 'engineer':
+      return <rect x={cx - r} y={cy - r} width={r * 2} height={r * 2} rx={4} fill={color} />;
+    case 'file':
+      return (
+        <rect
+          x={cx - r}
+          y={cy - r}
+          width={r * 2}
+          height={r * 2}
+          rx={4}
+          fill="var(--card)"
+          stroke={color}
+          strokeWidth={2.4}
+        />
+      );
+    case 'feature':
+      return <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r={r} fill={color} />;
+    case 'collision':
+      return (
+        <polygon
+          points={`${cx},${cy - r} ${cx + r},${cy + r * 0.78} ${cx - r},${cy + r * 0.78}`}
+          fill={color}
+        />
+      );
+    case 'intervention':
+      return (
+        <polygon points={`${cx},${cy - r} ${cx + r},${cy} ${cx},${cy + r} ${cx - r},${cy}`} fill={color} />
+      );
+    default:
+      return null;
+  }
+}
+
+function showLabel(
+  node: PodGraphNode,
+  dimmed: boolean,
+  hovered: boolean,
+  selected: boolean,
+): boolean {
+  if (hovered || selected) return true;
+  if (dimmed) return false;
+  // Collisions cluster and often share a filename — reveal on hover/select only.
+  if (node.kind === 'collision') return false;
+  return true;
+}
+
+interface DragState {
+  id: string;
+  pointerId: number;
+  moved: boolean;
+}
+
+export function GraphCanvas({
+  graph,
+  highlight,
+  selected,
+  onSelect,
+}: {
+  graph: PodGraph;
+  highlight: Highlight | null;
+  selected: string | null;
+  onSelect: (id: string | null) => void;
+}) {
+  const svgRef = useRef<SVGSVGElement | null>(null);
+  const simRef = useRef<ForceSim | null>(null);
+  if (!simRef.current) simRef.current = new ForceSim(W, H);
+  const rafRef = useRef<number | null>(null);
+  const dragRef = useRef<DragState | null>(null);
+  const sigRef = useRef<string>('');
+  const [, setFrame] = useState(0);
+  const [hovered, setHovered] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const loop = useCallback(() => {
+    const sim = simRef.current;
+    if (!sim) return;
+    const working = sim.tick();
+    setFrame((f) => (f + 1) % 1_000_000);
+    if (working || dragRef.current) {
+      rafRef.current = requestAnimationFrame(loop);
+    } else {
+      rafRef.current = null;
+    }
+  }, []);
+
+  const ensureRaf = useCallback(() => {
+    if (rafRef.current == null) rafRef.current = requestAnimationFrame(loop);
+  }, [loop]);
+
+  // Rebuild the simulation when the graph data changes, preserving positions.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const sim = simRef.current;
+    if (!sim) return;
+    const nodeInputs = graph.nodes.map((n) => ({
+      id: n.id,
+      radius: nodeRadius(n),
+      seedX: mapX(n.x),
+      seedY: mapY(n.y),
+    }));
+    const linkInputs = graph.edges.map((e) => ({
+      source: e.source,
+      target: e.target,
+      distance: linkDistance(e.kind),
+      strength: linkStrength(e.strength),
+    }));
+    const sig =
+      nodeInputs
+        .map((n) => n.id)
+        .sort()
+        .join(',') +
+      '|' +
+      graph.edges
+        .map((e) => e.id)
+        .sort()
+        .join(',');
+    const first = sigRef.current === '';
+    const changed = sig !== sigRef.current;
+    sim.setData(nodeInputs, linkInputs);
+    if (changed) {
+      sigRef.current = sig;
+      sim.reheat(first ? 1 : 0.5);
+    }
+    // Always (re)arm the loop — ensureRaf is idempotent via the rafRef==null
+    // guard. This must NOT be gated on `changed`: under React StrictMode the
+    // dev double-invoke cancels the frame between effect passes, and pass 2 sees
+    // an unchanged sig, so a `changed`-gated start would leave the sim frozen.
+    if (sim.nodes.length) ensureRaf();
+  }, [graph, ensureRaf]);
+
+  // Clean up the animation frame on unmount.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    return () => {
+      if (rafRef.current != null) cancelAnimationFrame(rafRef.current);
+      rafRef.current = null;
+    };
+  }, []);
+
+  function toSvg(evt: PointerEvent): { x: number; y: number } {
+    const svg = svgRef.current;
+    if (!svg) return { x: 0, y: 0 };
+    const ctm = svg.getScreenCTM();
+    if (!ctm) return { x: 0, y: 0 };
+    const p = new DOMPoint(evt.clientX, evt.clientY).matrixTransform(ctm.inverse());
+    return { x: p.x, y: p.y };
+  }
+
+  function onNodePointerDown(evt: PointerEvent, id: string) {
+    evt.stopPropagation();
+    const sim = simRef.current;
+    if (!sim) return;
+    (evt.currentTarget as Element).setPointerCapture(evt.pointerId);
+    dragRef.current = { id, pointerId: evt.pointerId, moved: false };
+    const { x, y } = toSvg(evt);
+    sim.pin(id, x, y);
+    sim.setActive(true);
+    ensureRaf();
+  }
+
+  function onNodePointerMove(evt: PointerEvent) {
+    const drag = dragRef.current;
+    const sim = simRef.current;
+    if (!drag || !sim || drag.pointerId !== evt.pointerId) return;
+    drag.moved = true;
+    const { x, y } = toSvg(evt);
+    sim.pin(drag.id, x, y);
+    ensureRaf();
+  }
+
+  function onNodePointerUp(evt: PointerEvent, id: string) {
+    const drag = dragRef.current;
+    const sim = simRef.current;
+    if (!drag || !sim || drag.pointerId !== evt.pointerId) return;
+    (evt.currentTarget as Element).releasePointerCapture?.(evt.pointerId);
+    sim.setActive(false);
+    // A press that never moved is a click — toggle selection (node stays pinned).
+    if (!drag.moved) onSelect(selected === id ? null : id);
+    dragRef.current = null;
+    ensureRaf();
+  }
+
+  function onNodeDoubleClick(id: string) {
+    const sim = simRef.current;
+    if (!sim) return;
+    sim.unpin(id);
+    sim.reheat(0.5);
+    ensureRaf();
+  }
+
+  const sim = simRef.current;
+  const dimNode = (id: string) => (highlight ? !highlight.nodes.has(id) : false);
+  const dimEdge = (id: string) => (highlight ? !highlight.edges.has(id) : false);
+  const hotEdge = (id: string) => (highlight ? highlight.edges.has(id) : false);
+
+  return (
+    <svg
+      ref={svgRef}
+      viewBox={`0 0 ${W} ${H}`}
+      role="img"
+      aria-label="PodMan team-memory graph — drag nodes to rearrange"
+      className="block h-full max-h-[560px] w-full touch-none select-none"
+      onPointerDown={() => onSelect(null)}
+    >
+      <g>
+        {graph.edges.map((e) => {
+          const a = sim?.get(e.source);
+          const b = sim?.get(e.target);
+          if (!a || !b) return null;
+          const style = EDGE[e.kind];
+          const hot = hotEdge(e.id);
+          return (
+            <path
+              key={e.id}
+              className={`pm-edge pm-enter ${dimEdge(e.id) ? 'pm-dim' : ''} ${e.kind === 'learned_from' ? 'pm-dash' : ''}`}
+              d={edgePath(a.x, a.y, b.x, b.y, e.id)}
+              fill="none"
+              stroke={style.c}
+              strokeWidth={hot ? style.w + 1.4 : style.w}
+              strokeOpacity={hot ? 1 : 0.78}
+              strokeDasharray={style.dash ? '7 6' : undefined}
+              strokeLinecap="round"
+            />
+          );
+        })}
+      </g>
+      <g>
+        {graph.nodes.map((n) => {
+          const p = sim?.get(n.id);
+          if (!p) return null;
+          const r = p.radius;
+          const dimmed = dimNode(n.id);
+          const isHover = hovered === n.id;
+          const isSel = selected === n.id;
+          const color = KIND_COLOR[n.kind];
+          const pinned = p.fx != null;
+          return (
+            <g
+              key={n.id}
+              className={`pm-node pm-enter ${dimmed ? 'pm-dim' : ''}`}
+              role="button"
+              tabIndex={0}
+              aria-label={`${n.kind}: ${n.label}`}
+              onPointerDown={(ev) => onNodePointerDown(ev, n.id)}
+              onPointerMove={onNodePointerMove}
+              onPointerUp={(ev) => onNodePointerUp(ev, n.id)}
+              onDoubleClick={() => onNodeDoubleClick(n.id)}
+              onMouseEnter={() => setHovered(n.id)}
+              onMouseLeave={() => setHovered((cur) => (cur === n.id ? null : cur))}
+              onKeyDown={(ev) => {
+                if (ev.key === 'Enter' || ev.key === ' ') {
+                  ev.preventDefault();
+                  onSelect(selected === n.id ? null : n.id);
+                }
+              }}
+            >
+              {(isSel || isHover) && (
+                <circle cx={p.x} cy={p.y} r={r + 7} fill="none" stroke={color} strokeWidth={2} strokeOpacity={0.5} />
+              )}
+              {pinned && !isSel && !isHover && (
+                <circle cx={p.x} cy={p.y} r={r + 4} fill="none" stroke={color} strokeWidth={1} strokeDasharray="2 3" strokeOpacity={0.4} />
+              )}
+              {nodeShape(n.kind, color, p.x, p.y, r)}
+              {showLabel(n, dimmed, isHover, isSel) && (
+                <text className="pm-lbl" x={p.x} y={p.y + r + 13} textAnchor="middle">
+                  {n.label}
+                </text>
+              )}
+            </g>
+          );
+        })}
+      </g>
+    </svg>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/LearningLoop.tsx b/frontend/src/components/graph/LearningLoop.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88eb77e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/LearningLoop.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import type { LearningStage } from '@podman/shared';
+import { BLUE } from './encoding.js';
+
+/**
+ * The continual-learning loop rail: observe → store → predict → outcome → adapt.
+ * The active stage (most-recent activity) gets a pulsing accent bar + ring.
+ */
+export function LearningLoop({ stages }: { stages: LearningStage[] }) {
+  return (
+    <div className="space-y-1">
+      <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+        Learning loop
+      </p>
+      {stages.map((s, i) => (
+        <div key={s.key}>
+          <div
+            className="relative overflow-hidden rounded-lg border bg-card py-2 pl-3.5 pr-3 shadow-sm transition-colors data-[active=true]:bg-accent/40"
+            data-active={s.active}
+            style={s.active ? { boxShadow: `inset 0 0 0 1px ${BLUE}55` } : undefined}
+          >
+            <span
+              aria-hidden
+              className={`absolute inset-y-0 left-0 w-1 ${s.active ? 'pm-pulse' : ''}`}
+              style={{ background: s.active ? BLUE : 'var(--border)' }}
+            />
+            <div className="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-2">
+              <p className="text-[0.7rem] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+                <span className="tabular-nums">{String(i + 1).padStart(2, '0')}</span> {s.title}
+              </p>
+              <p className="font-heading text-sm font-semibold tabular-nums">{s.value}</p>
+            </div>
+            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs leading-snug text-muted-foreground">{s.detail}</p>
+          </div>
+          {i < stages.length - 1 && (
+            <p aria-hidden className="py-0.5 text-center text-xs leading-none text-muted-foreground/60">
+              ↓
+            </p>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/MetricsRail.tsx b/frontend/src/components/graph/MetricsRail.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23f9d7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/MetricsRail.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import type { PodGraphMetric } from '@podman/shared';
+import { BLUE, RED, VIOLET, GREEN, AMBER } from './encoding.js';
+
+const ACCENTS: Array<{ test: RegExp; color: string }> = [
+  { test: /risk|collision|open/i, color: RED },
+  { test: /accept/i, color: GREEN },
+  { test: /learn|owner|adapt/i, color: VIOLET },
+  { test: /vector|memory|store/i, color: AMBER },
+];
+
+function accentFor(label: string, i: number): string {
+  for (const a of ACCENTS) if (a.test.test(label)) return a.color;
+  return [BLUE, RED, VIOLET, GREEN, AMBER][i % 5] ?? BLUE;
+}
+
+export function MetricsRail({ metrics }: { metrics: PodGraphMetric[] }) {
+  return (
+    <div className="space-y-2.5">
+      <p className="text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+        Workflow metrics
+      </p>
+      {metrics.map((m, i) => (
+        <div
+          key={m.label}
+          className="rounded-lg border bg-card py-2.5 pl-3 pr-3 shadow-sm"
+          style={{ borderLeftWidth: 3, borderLeftColor: accentFor(m.label, i) }}
+        >
+          <p className="font-heading text-2xl font-semibold leading-none tabular-nums">{m.value}</p>
+          <p className="mt-1.5 text-[0.7rem] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+            {m.label}
+          </p>
+          <p className="mt-1 text-xs leading-snug text-muted-foreground">{m.detail}</p>
+        </div>
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/SelectedNodePanel.tsx b/frontend/src/components/graph/SelectedNodePanel.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d73d918
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/SelectedNodePanel.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import type { PodGraphNode } from '@podman/shared';
+import { Badge } from '@/components/ui/badge';
+import { statusColor, modeBlurb, VIOLET, type Mode } from './encoding.js';
+
+export function SelectedNodePanel({
+  node,
+  relCount,
+  flow,
+  mode,
+}: {
+  node: PodGraphNode | undefined;
+  relCount: number;
+  flow: string;
+  mode: Mode;
+}) {
+  if (!node) {
+    return (
+      <div className="flex h-full flex-col">
+        <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+          {mode === 'learn' ? 'Learning edges' : mode === 'all' ? 'Whole graph' : 'Risk path'}
+        </p>
+        <h3 className="mb-2 font-heading text-base font-medium">What you're looking at</h3>
+        <p className="text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">{modeBlurb(mode)}</p>
+        <p className="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">
+          Click any node to trace its{' '}
+          <span className="font-medium" style={{ color: VIOLET }}>
+            flow
+          </span>{' '}
+          — what PodMan saw, flagged, and learned. Drag to rearrange.
+        </p>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+  return (
+    <div className="flex h-full flex-col">
+      <p className="text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+        {node.kind}
+      </p>
+      <h3 className="mb-2 mt-0.5 font-heading text-lg font-medium">{node.label}</h3>
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-b py-1.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+        <span>Status</span>
+        <Badge variant="outline" style={{ color: statusColor(node.status) }}>
+          {node.status}
+        </Badge>
+      </div>
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-between border-b py-1.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+        <span>Relationships</span>
+        <span className="font-medium text-foreground">{relCount}</span>
+      </div>
+      {flow && (
+        <>
+          <p className="mt-2.5 text-[0.7rem] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
+            Flow
+          </p>
+          <p className="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-foreground/90">{flow}</p>
+        </>
+      )}
+      {node.summary && node.summary !== flow && (
+        <p className="mt-2 text-xs leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">{node.summary}</p>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/encoding.ts b/frontend/src/components/graph/encoding.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cbac39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/encoding.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+import type { CSSProperties } from 'react';
+import type {
+  PodGraph,
+  PodGraphNode,
+  PodGraphEdge,
+  PodGraphNodeKind,
+  ActivityKind,
+} from '@podman/shared';
+
+/**
+ * Fixed, light-readable hues for the node/edge encoding. Kept stable across
+ * light/dark so kinds stay distinguishable; only the chrome uses shadcn tokens.
+ */
+export const BLUE = '#2563eb';
+export const SLATE = '#475569';
+export const SLATE_EDGE = '#94a3b8';
+export const SLATE_FAINT = '#cbd5e1';
+export const AMBER = '#d97706';
+export const RED = '#dc2626';
+export const VIOLET = '#7c3aed';
+export const GREEN = '#16a34a';
+
+/** Tag color + short label per activity-stream kind. */
+export const ACTIVITY_TAG: Record<ActivityKind, { color: string; label: string }> = {
+  editing: { color: SLATE, label: 'EDITING' },
+  collision: { color: RED, label: 'COLLISION' },
+  warns: { color: AMBER, label: 'WARNS' },
+  outcome: { color: GREEN, label: 'OUTCOME' },
+  learned_from: { color: VIOLET, label: 'LEARNED' },
+};
+
+export const KIND_COLOR: Record<PodGraphNodeKind, string> = {
+  engineer: BLUE,
+  file: SLATE,
+  feature: AMBER,
+  collision: RED,
+  intervention: VIOLET,
+};
+
+export interface EdgeStyle {
+  c: string;
+  w: number;
+  dash?: boolean;
+}
+
+export const EDGE: Record<PodGraphEdge['kind'], EdgeStyle> = {
+  owns: { c: BLUE, w: 2.4 },
+  editing: { c: SLATE_EDGE, w: 1.9 },
+  touches: { c: SLATE_FAINT, w: 1.5 },
+  collides: { c: RED, w: 2.8 },
+  warns: { c: AMBER, w: 2.8 },
+  learned_from: { c: VIOLET, w: 2.4, dash: true },
+};
+
+/** Collision/drawing radius for a node — scaled by its 0..1 weight. */
+export function nodeRadius(node: PodGraphNode): number {
+  const base = node.kind === 'collision' || node.kind === 'intervention' ? 14 : 13;
+  return base + Math.max(0, Math.min(1, node.weight)) * 7;
+}
+
+export function statusColor(status: string): string {
+  if (status === 'risk') return RED;
+  if (status === 'learned') return VIOLET;
+  if (status === 'active') return BLUE;
+  return 'var(--muted-foreground)';
+}
+
+export type Mode = 'risk' | 'learn' | 'all';
+
+export interface Highlight {
+  nodes: Set<string>;
+  edges: Set<string>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The lit set for the current mode/selection. A selected node lights its
+ * incident edges + neighbors; otherwise the mode lights the risk or learning
+ * chain (collision → intervention → learned_from). `all` lights everything.
+ */
+export function highlightFor(graph: PodGraph, mode: Mode, selected: string | null): Highlight | null {
+  if (selected) {
+    const es = graph.edges.filter((e) => e.source === selected || e.target === selected);
+    return {
+      nodes: new Set([selected, ...es.flatMap((e) => [e.source, e.target])]),
+      edges: new Set(es.map((e) => e.id)),
+    };
+  }
+  if (mode === 'all') return null;
+  const kinds: PodGraphEdge['kind'][] =
+    mode === 'risk' ? ['collides', 'warns', 'learned_from'] : ['learned_from', 'warns'];
+  const collisions = new Set(graph.nodes.filter((n) => n.kind === 'collision').map((n) => n.id));
+  const es = graph.edges.filter(
+    (e) =>
+      kinds.includes(e.kind) ||
+      (mode === 'risk' && (collisions.has(e.target) || collisions.has(e.source))),
+  );
+  return {
+    nodes: new Set(es.flatMap((e) => [e.source, e.target])),
+    edges: new Set(es.map((e) => e.id)),
+  };
+}
+
+function joinNames(ids: string[], label: (id: string) => string): string {
+  const u = [...new Set(ids)].map(label);
+  if (u.length <= 1) return u[0] ?? '';
+  if (u.length === 2) return `${u[0]} and ${u[1]}`;
+  return `${u.slice(0, -1).join(', ')} and ${u[u.length - 1]}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A plain-English walk of the flow through a node — what PodMan saw, flagged,
+ * suggested, and learned — so clicking a node explains the path, not just shows
+ * attributes. Built by traversing the node's incident edges.
+ */
+export function flowNarrative(graph: PodGraph, nodeId: string): string {
+  const byId = new Map(graph.nodes.map((n) => [n.id, n]));
+  const node = byId.get(nodeId);
+  if (!node) return '';
+  const label = (id: string): string => byId.get(id)?.label ?? id;
+  const out = graph.edges.filter((e) => e.source === nodeId);
+  const inc = graph.edges.filter((e) => e.target === nodeId);
+
+  switch (node.kind) {
+    case 'engineer': {
+      const edits = out.filter((e) => e.kind === 'editing').map((e) => e.target);
+      const collisions = out.filter((e) => e.kind === 'collides');
+      const owns = out.filter((e) => e.kind === 'owns').map((e) => label(e.target));
+      const learned = inc.some((e) => e.kind === 'learned_from');
+      const parts: string[] = [];
+      if (edits.length) parts.push(`${node.label} is working in ${joinNames(edits, label)}.`);
+      if (collisions.length)
+        parts.push(
+          `PodMan flagged ${collisions.length} overlap${collisions.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} involving ${node.label}.`,
+        );
+      if (learned)
+        parts.push(
+          `From an accepted intervention PodMan learned ${node.label} owns ${owns[0] ?? 'this file'} — retained across sessions.`,
+        );
+      else if (owns.length) parts.push(`PodMan has ${node.label} owning ${joinNames(owns, (s) => s)}.`);
+      return parts.join(' ') || `${node.label} has no active flow right now.`;
+    }
+    case 'file': {
+      const editors = inc.filter((e) => e.kind === 'editing' || e.kind === 'owns').map((e) => e.source);
+      const hasCollision = out.some((e) => e.kind === 'touches');
+      const parts: string[] = [];
+      if (editors.length) parts.push(`${node.label} is being edited by ${joinNames(editors, label)}.`);
+      if (hasCollision)
+        parts.push('Two of those edits overlap before push, so PodMan opened a collision on it.');
+      return parts.join(' ') || node.summary || node.label;
+    }
+    case 'collision': {
+      const engineers = inc.filter((e) => e.kind === 'collides').map((e) => e.source);
+      const fileEdge = inc.find((e) => e.kind === 'touches');
+      const file = fileEdge ? label(fileEdge.source) : 'the same file';
+      const intervention = out.find((e) => e.kind === 'warns');
+      let s = `${joinNames(engineers, label) || 'Two engineers'} are both editing ${file} before pushing — the overlap git can't see.`;
+      if (intervention) s += ` PodMan stepped in and suggested a ${label(intervention.target)}.`;
+      return s;
+    }
+    case 'intervention': {
+      const colEdge = inc.find((e) => e.kind === 'warns');
+      const learned = out.find((e) => e.kind === 'learned_from');
+      // Resolve the collision's underlying file via its touches edge (file → collision).
+      let file = '';
+      if (colEdge) {
+        const fileEdge = graph.edges.find((e) => e.kind === 'touches' && e.target === colEdge.source);
+        file = fileEdge ? label(fileEdge.source) : '';
+      }
+      let s = `PodMan offered a ${node.label}${file ? ` for the overlap on ${file}` : ''}.`;
+      if (learned)
+        s += ` The pod accepted it, so PodMan learned ${label(learned.target)} owns ${file || 'the file'} — the graph got sharper.`;
+      return s;
+    }
+    case 'feature': {
+      const contributors = inc.filter((e) => e.kind === 'owns' || e.kind === 'touches').map((e) => e.source);
+      return contributors.length
+        ? `${node.label} is built on work by ${joinNames(contributors, label)}.`
+        : node.summary || node.label;
+    }
+    default:
+      return node.summary ?? '';
+  }
+}
+
+/** Short explainer for the current view when nothing is selected. */
+export function modeBlurb(mode: Mode): string {
+  if (mode === 'learn')
+    return 'The violet learned_from links are ownership PodMan kept from accepted interventions — the graph sharpens every session.';
+  if (mode === 'all')
+    return 'Everyone, every file, and every collision and intervention PodMan is tracking for this pod.';
+  return 'The lit path: files where two editors collide before push → the nudge PodMan sent → what it learned.';
+}
+
+export const NODE_LEGEND: Array<{ label: string; swatch: CSSProperties }> = [
+  { label: 'engineer', swatch: { background: BLUE } },
+  { label: 'file', swatch: { border: `2px solid ${SLATE}` } },
+  { label: 'feature', swatch: { background: AMBER, borderRadius: '50%' } },
+  { label: 'collision', swatch: { background: RED, clipPath: 'polygon(50% 0,100% 100%,0 100%)' } },
+  { label: 'intervention', swatch: { background: VIOLET, transform: 'rotate(45deg)' } },
+];
+
+export const EDGE_LEGEND: Array<{ label: string; color: string; dash?: boolean }> = [
+  { label: 'collides', color: RED },
+  { label: 'warns', color: AMBER },
+  { label: 'learned_from', color: VIOLET, dash: true },
+  { label: 'owns', color: BLUE },
+  { label: 'editing', color: SLATE_EDGE },
+  { label: 'touches', color: SLATE_FAINT },
+];
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/graph/forceSim.ts b/frontend/src/components/graph/forceSim.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2432eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/graph/forceSim.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,284 @@
+/**
+ * A tiny dependency-free force-directed layout — the same family of forces as
+ * d3-force (charge repulsion, link springs, centering, collision) integrated
+ * with velocity-Verlet and an annealing `alpha`. Kept in-house so the dynamic
+ * graph adds no new package / lockfile churn to a fast-moving shared `main`.
+ *
+ * Usage: `setData()` (diff-preserving — existing nodes keep their position),
+ * then drive `tick()` from a requestAnimationFrame loop until `settled()`.
+ */
+
+export interface SimNodeInput {
+  id: string;
+  /** Drawing/collision radius. */
+  radius: number;
+  /** Initial position hint (e.g. the server layout), used only for new nodes. */
+  seedX: number;
+  seedY: number;
+}
+
+export interface SimLinkInput {
+  source: string;
+  target: string;
+  /** Preferred rest length of the spring. */
+  distance: number;
+  /** 0..1 spring strength. */
+  strength: number;
+}
+
+export interface SimNode {
+  id: string;
+  x: number;
+  y: number;
+  vx: number;
+  vy: number;
+  /** When non-null the node is pinned (dragged) and forces don't move it. */
+  fx: number | null;
+  fy: number | null;
+  radius: number;
+}
+
+const ALPHA_MIN = 0.001;
+const ALPHA_DECAY = 1 - Math.pow(ALPHA_MIN, 1 / 300); // settle in ~300 ticks
+const FRICTION = 0.62; // velocity retained per tick
+const REPEL = 4400; // charge repulsion strength — must dominate centering or the graph collapses
+const LINK_K = 0.45; // spring stiffness multiplier
+const CENTER_STRENGTH = 0.014; // gentle positional pull — only keeps the cloud roughly centered
+const RECENTER = 0.5; // per-tick centroid recentering (no compression, keeps graph framed)
+const COLLIDE_PAD = 12;
+const COLLIDE_STRENGTH = 1; // hard separation so linked nodes never stack
+const COLLIDE_ITERS = 2;
+const BOUND_PAD = 30; // keep nodes this far inside the canvas edges
+
+export class ForceSim {
+  nodes: SimNode[] = [];
+  links: SimLinkInput[] = [];
+  alpha = 1;
+  private byId = new Map<string, SimNode>();
+  private alphaTarget = 0;
+  private center: { x: number; y: number };
+  private width: number;
+  private height: number;
+
+  constructor(width: number, height: number) {
+    this.width = width;
+    this.height = height;
+    this.center = { x: width / 2, y: height / 2 };
+  }
+
+  settled(): boolean {
+    return this.alpha < ALPHA_MIN && this.alphaTarget === 0;
+  }
+
+  reheat(a = 0.7): void {
+    this.alpha = Math.max(this.alpha, a);
+  }
+
+  /** Hold the simulation warm while dragging, then release. */
+  setActive(active: boolean): void {
+    this.alphaTarget = active ? 0.18 : 0;
+    if (active) this.reheat(0.25);
+  }
+
+  get(id: string): SimNode | undefined {
+    return this.byId.get(id);
+  }
+
+  pin(id: string, x: number, y: number): void {
+    const n = this.byId.get(id);
+    if (n) {
+      n.fx = x;
+      n.fy = y;
+    }
+  }
+
+  unpin(id: string): void {
+    const n = this.byId.get(id);
+    if (n) {
+      n.fx = null;
+      n.fy = null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Replace the graph, preserving the positions/pins of nodes that persist. */
+  setData(nodeInputs: SimNodeInput[], linkInputs: SimLinkInput[]): { added: string[] } {
+    const prev = this.byId;
+    const next = new Map<string, SimNode>();
+    const added: string[] = [];
+    for (const inp of nodeInputs) {
+      const old = prev.get(inp.id);
+      if (old) {
+        old.radius = inp.radius;
+        next.set(inp.id, old);
+      } else {
+        next.set(inp.id, {
+          id: inp.id,
+          x: inp.seedX + (Math.random() - 0.5) * 14,
+          y: inp.seedY + (Math.random() - 0.5) * 14,
+          vx: 0,
+          vy: 0,
+          fx: null,
+          fy: null,
+          radius: inp.radius,
+        });
+        added.push(inp.id);
+      }
+    }
+    this.byId = next;
+    this.nodes = [...next.values()];
+    this.links = linkInputs.filter((l) => next.has(l.source) && next.has(l.target));
+    return { added };
+  }
+
+  /** Advance one step. Returns false when already settled (no work done). */
+  tick(): boolean {
+    if (this.settled()) return false;
+    this.alpha += (this.alphaTarget - this.alpha) * ALPHA_DECAY;
+    const a = this.alpha;
+    this.applyCharge(a);
+    this.applyLinks(a);
+    this.applyCenter(a);
+    for (let k = 0; k < COLLIDE_ITERS; k++) this.applyCollide();
+    const maxX = this.width - BOUND_PAD;
+    const maxY = this.height - BOUND_PAD;
+    for (const n of this.nodes) {
+      if (n.fx != null) {
+        n.x = n.fx;
+        n.vx = 0;
+      } else {
+        n.vx *= FRICTION;
+        n.x += n.vx;
+        if (n.x < BOUND_PAD) {
+          n.x = BOUND_PAD;
+          n.vx = 0;
+        } else if (n.x > maxX) {
+          n.x = maxX;
+          n.vx = 0;
+        }
+      }
+      if (n.fy != null) {
+        n.y = n.fy;
+        n.vy = 0;
+      } else {
+        n.vy *= FRICTION;
+        n.y += n.vy;
+        if (n.y < BOUND_PAD) {
+          n.y = BOUND_PAD;
+          n.vy = 0;
+        } else if (n.y > maxY) {
+          n.y = maxY;
+          n.vy = 0;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  private applyCharge(alpha: number): void {
+    const ns = this.nodes;
+    for (let i = 0; i < ns.length; i++) {
+      const a = ns[i];
+      if (!a) continue;
+      for (let j = i + 1; j < ns.length; j++) {
+        const b = ns[j];
+        if (!b) continue;
+        let dx = b.x - a.x;
+        let dy = b.y - a.y;
+        let d2 = dx * dx + dy * dy;
+        if (d2 === 0) {
+          dx = (j - i) * 0.5;
+          dy = (i + 1) * 0.4;
+          d2 = dx * dx + dy * dy;
+        }
+        const dist = Math.sqrt(d2);
+        const force = (REPEL * alpha) / d2;
+        const ux = dx / dist;
+        const uy = dy / dist;
+        a.vx -= ux * force;
+        a.vy -= uy * force;
+        b.vx += ux * force;
+        b.vy += uy * force;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  private applyLinks(alpha: number): void {
+    for (const link of this.links) {
+      const s = this.byId.get(link.source);
+      const t = this.byId.get(link.target);
+      if (!s || !t) continue;
+      let dx = t.x - s.x;
+      let dy = t.y - s.y;
+      let d2 = dx * dx + dy * dy;
+      if (d2 === 0) {
+        dx = 0.5;
+        dy = 0.5;
+        d2 = 0.5;
+      }
+      const dist = Math.sqrt(d2);
+      const k = ((dist - link.distance) / dist) * alpha * link.strength * LINK_K;
+      const mx = dx * k * 0.5;
+      const my = dy * k * 0.5;
+      s.vx += mx;
+      s.vy += my;
+      t.vx -= mx;
+      t.vy -= my;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private applyCenter(alpha: number): void {
+    const n = this.nodes.length;
+    if (!n) return;
+    // Recenter the whole cloud so its centroid sits at canvas center (this does
+    // NOT compress the layout — repulsion/links set the spread), plus a gentle
+    // positional pull so stray/isolated nodes don't park against the edge.
+    let cx = 0;
+    let cy = 0;
+    for (const nd of this.nodes) {
+      cx += nd.x;
+      cy += nd.y;
+    }
+    cx = (this.center.x - cx / n) * RECENTER;
+    cy = (this.center.y - cy / n) * RECENTER;
+    for (const nd of this.nodes) {
+      if (nd.fx == null) {
+        nd.x += cx;
+        nd.vx += (this.center.x - nd.x) * CENTER_STRENGTH * alpha;
+      }
+      if (nd.fy == null) {
+        nd.y += cy;
+        nd.vy += (this.center.y - nd.y) * CENTER_STRENGTH * alpha;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  private applyCollide(): void {
+    const ns = this.nodes;
+    for (let i = 0; i < ns.length; i++) {
+      const a = ns[i];
+      if (!a) continue;
+      for (let j = i + 1; j < ns.length; j++) {
+        const b = ns[j];
+        if (!b) continue;
+        let dx = b.x - a.x;
+        let dy = b.y - a.y;
+        const d2 = dx * dx + dy * dy;
+        const min = a.radius + b.radius + COLLIDE_PAD;
+        if (d2 >= min * min) continue;
+        let dist = Math.sqrt(d2);
+        if (dist === 0) {
+          dx = j - i;
+          dy = i + 1;
+          dist = Math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy) || 1;
+        }
+        const push = ((min - dist) / dist) * 0.5 * COLLIDE_STRENGTH;
+        const ox = dx * push;
+        const oy = dy * push;
+        if (a.fx == null) a.x -= ox;
+        if (a.fy == null) a.y -= oy;
+        if (b.fx == null) b.x += ox;
+        if (b.fy == null) b.y += oy;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/graph.ts b/frontend/src/lib/graph.ts
index b3a57c7..9d746de 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/graph.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/graph.ts
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ export async function fetchPodGraph(podId: string): Promise<PodGraph> {
   if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`graph request failed: ${res.status}`);
   return res.json() as Promise<PodGraph>;
 }
+
+/** WebSocket URL for the live event bus — used to nudge the graph to refetch. */
+export function backendEventsUrl(): string {
+  return `${BACKEND_URL.replace(/^http/, 'ws')}/api/events`;
+}
diff --git a/shared/src/graph.ts b/shared/src/graph.ts
index c8175fb..df08e5f 100644
--- a/shared/src/graph.ts
+++ b/shared/src/graph.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,36 @@ export interface PodGraphMetric {
   detail: string;
 }
 
+/** The five stages of PodMan's continual-learning loop, in order. */
+export type LearningStageKey = 'observe' | 'store' | 'predict' | 'outcome' | 'adapt';
+
+/** One stage of the learning-loop rail (observe→store→predict→outcome→adapt). */
+export interface LearningStage {
+  key: LearningStageKey;
+  /** UPPERCASE display title, e.g. "OBSERVE". */
+  title: string;
+  /** Headline figure for the stage, e.g. "5/s" or "124". */
+  value: string;
+  /** One-line detail under the title. */
+  detail: string;
+  /** True for the single most-recently-active stage (pulses in the UI). */
+  active: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Kind of an activity-stream entry (drives the colored tag). */
+export type ActivityKind = 'editing' | 'collision' | 'warns' | 'outcome' | 'learned_from';
+
+/** One time-tagged entry in the activity stream. */
+export interface ActivityEvent {
+  /** Stable id (source doc id + kind) so the UI can animate diffs. */
+  id: string;
+  /** ISO timestamp the event happened. */
+  at: string;
+  kind: ActivityKind;
+  /** Human-readable line, e.g. "Yahya opened auth.ts — unpushed changes". */
+  text: string;
+}
+
 /** A point-in-time render of a pod's team_model. */
 export interface PodGraph {
   podId: string;
@@ -56,6 +86,10 @@ export interface PodGraph {
   nodes: PodGraphNode[];
   edges: PodGraphEdge[];
   metrics: PodGraphMetric[];
+  /** Continual-learning loop counts (observe→…→adapt). Additive/optional. */
+  loop?: LearningStage[];
+  /** Recent activity feed, most-recent first, capped ~8. Additive/optional. */
+  activity?: ActivityEvent[];
 }
 
 /** One node as a standalone document in the `graph_nodes` collection. */
diff --git a/shared/src/index.ts b/shared/src/index.ts
index b175dc3..dc861df 100644
--- a/shared/src/index.ts
+++ b/shared/src/index.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ export type {
   PodGraphNodeKind,
   PodGraphEdgeKind,
   PodGraphNodeStatus,
+  LearningStage,
+  LearningStageKey,
+  ActivityEvent,
+  ActivityKind,
   GraphNodeDoc,
   GraphEdgeDoc,
 } from './graph.js';