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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.