Phylax Tower

Phylax Tower is a safety net for airport control towers. In March 2026 at LaGuardia, a jet was cleared to land, and two minutes later a fire truck was cleared to cross the same runway. Phylax Tower is built to catch exactly that. Cooperating agents listen to several tower radio streams and position feeds at once, transcribe every call with ElevenLabs, and keep a live picture of every runway and taxiway in MongoDB Atlas. When a new clearance conflicts with one already in force, a deterministic rule engine (not an LLM) fires within about 3 seconds. The stop is spoken on the radio and sent to the controller who owns that runway, who can lift it. A procedures agent then proposes the safe next instruction ("TRUCK1 cross runway 04 at D after AC8646 passes"), and that proposal waits for the controller to approve it. The core rule: the AI can warn, stop or propose, but it can never clear traffic. Every agent is auditable. Agents can only file intents, a gate checks permissions before anything executes, every blocked attempt is logged, and any agent can be switched off mid-run. A read-only visualizer replays the whole incident from stored records. Our demo rebuilds the LaGuardia incident from the NTSB record and plays it with the Safety agent off, then on. All radio audio is synthetic. Live deployment (Google Cloud): - Visualizer/ dashboard: https://phylax-tower.web.app/ - Tower API (backend): https://phylax-tower-879011285468.us-east4.run.app/ - Visualizer API: https://phylax-viz-api-879011285468.us-east4.run.app/

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