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A safety gate with no AI in it: building JAMES, a touch-free maintenance copilot

DEV Community: opensource·Victor Isaac·1 day ago
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Built: first version over 25 to 26 Sep 2026 for AgentX-2026, public on GitHub since 26 Sep.

Status: still being built. ATLAS, CANTUS, SIGHT and the hash-chained ledger landed through October; next is a tuning session on real hands.

A technician with gloves on and both hands busy cannot scroll a PDF manual.

That one sentence is the whole reason JAMES exists. The fix for a vibrating pump lives in four places at once: the manual, the machine's sensor log, the notes from the last time someone repaired it, and the head of whoever did that repair. The technician is standing in front of the pump, holding a spanner, and every one of those sources assumes a free hand and a screen.

So I built a computer you operate by pointing at the air.

JAMES (Joint Autonomous Multimodal Execution System) watches a webcam, listens to a microphone, finds the right procedure, checks the sensor log and past repairs, and walks the technician through the fix one step at a time.…

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