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- Add scripts/podman-agent.mjs — polls git every 15s, upserts changedFiles/ diffStat/recentCommit/branch into MongoDB engineer_states collection - README: add "Git watcher" section with per-laptop demo commands for each team member (alice/bob/carol --pod demo-pod) - PLAN.md: mark scheduled git truth ✅ partial, update acceptance checklist, clarify remaining fusion step (GIT_REPORT data channel wire-up still needed) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AaCFWMkYQmTcuPsxaaACft
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# PodMan — Real-time AI Team Coordination Agent
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**2026 AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon** — Track: **Continual Learning**
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PodMan is an ambient AI teammate. Engineers join a pod room with earbuds in. Each engineer's browser PWA captures their screen every 30 seconds. PodMan watches, understands what each person is working on, detects coordination gaps — blockers, dependencies, duplicate work — and speaks up proactively before anyone has to ask.
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> "Carol, looks like you're waiting on auth. Alice is actively building it — hang tight."
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> "Carol, Bob — Alice just got the auth endpoint running. You're clear to integrate."
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Nobody sent a message. Nobody pinged on Slack. PodMan just knew.
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## How it works
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1. Engineers open the PWA in their browser and join a pod room
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2. PWA captures a screen frame every 30s via `getDisplayMedia`, POSTs it to Hermes
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3. **Hermes** (server-side orchestrator) calls Gemini Vision to extract structured context per engineer — current file, inferred task, terminal state
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4. Hermes writes context to MongoDB Atlas, updates the ownership map
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5. Hermes runs event detection across all engineers — dependency ready, blocker, duplicate work
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6. When an event fires, Hermes generates a spoken nudge and publishes it into the LiveKit room via Gemini Live 2.5
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7. Engineers hear PodMan through their earbuds
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The ownership map persists across sessions — making PodMan faster and smarter each time the team works together.
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---
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## Monorepo layout
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| Folder | What |
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| `frontend/` | React + Vite PWA — join pod, screen capture, nudge feed, live teammate status |
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| `backend/` | Hermes orchestrator: `/ingest` endpoint, Gemini vision pipeline, event detector, LiveKit agent |
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| `database/` | MongoDB Atlas schema — engineer states, ownership map, events, nudges |
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| `infra/` | DigitalOcean App Platform deploy spec + Dockerfile |
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| `shared/` | Shared TypeScript types |
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| `docs/` | Full specs — read these first |
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## Docs
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| File | What |
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| [`docs/idea.md`](docs/idea.md) | Full concept, value prop, demo moment |
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| [`docs/PLAN.md`](docs/PLAN.md) | 12-hour build plan, team assignments, build order |
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| [`docs/gemini.md`](docs/gemini.md) | Gemini Vision + event detection + Gemini Live 2.5 voice |
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| [`docs/livekit.md`](docs/livekit.md) | LiveKit room structure, Hermes agent, voice delivery |
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| [`docs/mongodb.md`](docs/mongodb.md) | MongoDB collections, schemas, continual learning hook |
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| [`docs/digitalocean.md`](docs/digitalocean.md) | DO deploy config, env vars, fallback plan |
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| [`docs/demo-setup.md`](docs/demo-setup.md) | Demo laptop setup, pre-staging checklist |
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---
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## Prizes targeted
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- **Best Gemini** — Gemini Vision (screen understanding) + Gemini Live 2.5 (voice output via LiveKit Agents)
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- **Best LiveKit** — LiveKit is the real-time backbone for room presence and voice delivery
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- **Best DigitalOcean** — Hermes deployed on DigitalOcean App Platform
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---
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## Quick start
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```bash
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cp .env.example .env
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# fill in LIVEKIT_*, GEMINI_API_KEY, MONGODB_URI
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pnpm install
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pnpm --filter backend dev # Hermes on :8787
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pnpm --filter frontend dev # PWA on :5173
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```
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---
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## Git watcher — run this on every demo laptop
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Each engineer runs this in a terminal before the demo. It polls the local git working tree every 15 seconds and writes git state to MongoDB so PodMan has deterministic dirty/unpushed truth that vision alone cannot reliably infer.
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```bash
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# from the repo root
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node scripts/podman-agent.mjs --name <yourname> --pod <podId>
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```
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**Demo setup (one command per laptop):**
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```bash
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# Alice's laptop
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node scripts/podman-agent.mjs --name alice --pod demo-pod
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# Bob's laptop
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node scripts/podman-agent.mjs --name bob --pod demo-pod
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# Carol's laptop
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node scripts/podman-agent.mjs --name carol --pod demo-pod
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```
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The script logs one line per cycle — branch, changed file count, and latest commit. Leave it running in a background terminal tab throughout the session. Stop with `Ctrl+C`.
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**Requirements:**
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- `MONGODB_URI` must be set — either exported in the shell or present in `backend/.env`
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- Run `pnpm install` first so `mongodb` is in workspace `node_modules`
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- Must be run from the repo root (the script resolves `backend/.env` relative to its own path)
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