"Almanac team on IBM Bob 2.0 hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

IBM Bob can spend your Bobcoins. Governor decides whether it's allowed to. Every agentic system eventually needs admission control. Kubernetes has resource quotas; agentic coding has a gauge in the corner. Governor is the missing layer. It plugs into Bob through five extension points: lifecycle hooks for enforcement, a Budget Steward mode, a cost-aware-planning skill, a /budget command, and an MCP server that lets Bob reason about its own spend. Before a task starts, Governor estimates its cost from the repo's own history and checks it against a policy file committed in git. Over budget? Bob asks Governor for cheaper routes and proposes them itself — before a single token is spent. Mid-task, forbidden operations like a subagent fan-out on a high-risk path are blocked deterministically, and Bob keeps working. Every task ends with a Cost Receipt attributed to the pull request. Not a dashboard. A control plane. Fails open, runs local, one binary, one YAML.

Team Members

ManeeshJupalle

maneeshjupalle104

Submission

Submission draft in progress