Building Shoots: a hybrid event-driven agent system for photography

Description and use

Shoots is an automated photo analysis system that uses a hybrid agent and Pub/Sub architecture to ensure reproducible and transparent results.

Problem

Photographers need a system that can automatically review and provide evidence-backed feedback on their photos without relying on opaque model decisions.

Outcome

Shoots delivers a reproducible, auditable photo review pipeline that limits model authority, ensures safe retries, and provides evidence-backed feedback to photographers.

Workflow

• Upload photo → create durable Run
• Ingest stage processes media
• Analyst panel reads Shot with multiple readers
• Cartographer and Judge analyze results
• Scribe writes Shoot Record
• Optional Experiment offered

Evidence

The model panel reads a single Shot. The system around it does the work: it creates a durable Run, moves tiny events through independently retryable stages, re-reads state at every boundary, records every outcome, and only settles a Shoot after every member Run is accounted for.

Source

I use Gemini 3.7 Flash for bounded visual interpretation and writing. Deterministic code owns evidence rules, state changes, and anything that sounds like a fact.

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