Reverse the best-effort error swallowing. MongoDB is core to PodMan's
continual-learning story and must always be used, so a broken memory
layer must surface immediately rather than silently masquerade as
working (which is how observations stayed at 0 unnoticed).
- agent verifies Mongo via initMemory() at boot; bad creds / unreachable
Atlas now fail loudly before joining the room, not mid-demo
- server exits on Mongo init failure instead of warning and limping on
- getGitStates and onScreenFrame no longer swallow Mongo errors
- memory persist() logs the failure and rethrows instead of warning
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AaCFWMkYQmTcuPsxaaACft
A Mongo auth/connection failure in getGitStates escaped uncaught and
killed the agent process on the first screen frame, so collision
detection never ran. Make git-state fusion best-effort (degrade to
vision-only) and wrap the whole onScreenFrame loop so no per-frame
Gemini/GitHub/Mongo error can crash the long-running agent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AaCFWMkYQmTcuPsxaaACft
Add getGitStates(podId) to db.ts — queries the engineer_states collection
written by scripts/podman-agent.mjs and returns a map keyed by engineer name.
In PodMan.onScreenFrame(), fuse before detectCollisions(): if an engineer has
changedFiles in engineer_states, force hasUnpushedChanges=true on their context.
This overrides Gemini vision's unreliable pixel-based guess with deterministic
local git state — preventing the money-moment collision from silently not firing.
Key assumption: LiveKit participant identity matches the --name arg used when
running the git watcher (e.g. identity "alice" → --name alice).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AaCFWMkYQmTcuPsxaaACft
Backend: atomic create with insert-retry-on-duplicate-key (removes slug
TOCTOU race + wrong 400s), resilient per-index creation so a unique-index
failure can't silently drop the constraint or block seeding, idempotent
race-safe seeding via $setOnInsert, type validation + size caps on all pod
fields/members, removeMember no-ops without a write, /api/outcome guarded.
Frontend: per-pod busy state (one mutation no longer disables every card),
joined pod derived from the list (can't go stale), create keeps inputs on error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pods are persisted in MongoDB and CRUD'd via /api/pods (list/create/get/
update/delete + add/remove member). Shared Pod reshaped to a persisted entity
(members: string[], description, timestamps) + PodInput. Backend seeds Demo/
Frontend/Backend Pods on first run (Squad -> Pod rename). Frontend replaces
hardcoded teams with live data: PodCard (member chips add/remove, inline edit,
delete, join) + CreatePodForm; App fetches+mutates via API. Removes teams.ts/
TeamCard; gitignores test artifacts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the in-memory store with a real MongoDB-backed store. Adds memory/db.ts
(client singleton, typed collections, startup ping + indexes) and rewrites
record{Observation,Collision,Intervention,Outcome} to insert into Mongo
(best-effort — failures log, don't crash). Server connects on startup and
exposes GET /api/memory/stats for verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Yahya Alhinai