diff --git a/backend/src/agent/podman.ts b/backend/src/agent/podman.ts
index 6d87270..d42cd70 100644
--- a/backend/src/agent/podman.ts
+++ b/backend/src/agent/podman.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { analyzeFrame } from '../vision/gemini.js';
 import { detectCollisions } from '../collision/detector.js';
 import { getGithubState } from '../github/client.js';
 import { recordObservation, recordCollision, recordIntervention } from '../memory/store.js';
+import { getGitStates } from '../memory/db.js';
 import { recallSimilar } from '../memory/vectors.js';
 import { shouldIntervene, preferredAction } from '../memory/policy.js';
 import { speak } from '../voice/live.js';
@@ -36,6 +37,14 @@ export class PodMan {
     this.contexts.set(engineerId, ctx);
     await recordObservation(ctx);
 
+    // Fuse git ground truth: engineer_states written by scripts/podman-agent.mjs.
+    // Keyed by name (matches --name arg), same as LiveKit participant identity.
+    const gitStates = await getGitStates(this.podId);
+    for (const [id, c] of this.contexts) {
+      const git = gitStates.get(id);
+      if (git && git.changedFiles.length > 0) c.hasUnpushedChanges = true;
+    }
+
     const github = await getGithubState(); // cached
     const collisions = detectCollisions([...this.contexts.values()], github);
     for (const collision of collisions) await this.handle(collision);
diff --git a/backend/src/memory/db.ts b/backend/src/memory/db.ts
index 629d08c..1902fb0 100644
--- a/backend/src/memory/db.ts
+++ b/backend/src/memory/db.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,38 @@ export async function collections(): Promise<PodCollections> {
   };
 }
 
+export interface GitState {
+  changedFiles: string[];
+  branch: string | null;
+  recentCommit: string | null;
+  gitUpdatedAt: Date | null;
+}
+
+/** Fetch latest git state per engineer for a pod from the engineer_states collection.
+ *  Returns a map keyed by engineer name (matches --name arg used in podman-agent.mjs). */
+export async function getGitStates(podId: string): Promise<Map<string, GitState>> {
+  const db = await getDb();
+  const col = db.collection<{
+    _id: string;
+    name: string;
+    changedFiles?: string[];
+    branch?: string | null;
+    recentCommit?: string | null;
+    gitUpdatedAt?: Date;
+  }>('engineer_states');
+  const docs = await col.find({ podId }).toArray();
+  const map = new Map<string, GitState>();
+  for (const doc of docs) {
+    map.set(doc.name, {
+      changedFiles: doc.changedFiles ?? [],
+      branch: doc.branch ?? null,
+      recentCommit: doc.recentCommit ?? null,
+      gitUpdatedAt: doc.gitUpdatedAt ?? null,
+    });
+  }
+  return map;
+}
+
 /** Connect, verify reachability, and create helpful indexes. Call once on startup. */
 export async function initMemory(): Promise<void> {
   const db = await getDb();