Orbit CTO X

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  Mission Control dashboard with real-time engineering health metrics and agent monitoring.

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  Interactive 3D codebase and deployment topology visualizer with orbital controls.

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  Parallel Universe Simulator forecasting velocity, cost, incidents, and revenue across decision branches.

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  AI Boardroom with 6 virtual executives (CEO, CTO, CISO, QA, DevOps, Product) debating key decisions.

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  Doom Predictor with multi-vector release risk analysis, radar charts, and confidence scoring.

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  Self-Healing Pipeline with autonomous failure detection and simulated code patching.

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  Security Arena with red-team vs blue-team cyber wargame simulation.

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  GitLab Project Connector showing live pipeline feed and remote test runner console.

Inspiration

Engineering leaders manage blind — spreadsheets, Slack threads, gut feelings. Orbit CTO X was built to give them a command center that sees everything: codebase health, pipeline status, security posture, team velocity, and release risk — all in one place, powered by GitLab Orbit.

What it does

Orbit CTO X is an AI-native command center with 10 integrated modules:

• Mission Control — real-time engineering health dashboard with agent monitoring and incident radar
• Digital Twin — interactive 3D codebase and deployment topology visualizer
• Parallel Universe Simulator — forecast the impact of decisions across multiple future branches
• AI Boardroom — 6 AI executives (CEO, CTO, CISO, QA, DevOps, Product) debate key decisions
• Doom Predictor — multi-vector release risk analysis
• Security Arena — red-team vs blue-team cyber wargame
• Incident Commander — automated incident response simulation
• Time Machine — historical development timeline scrubber
• Self-Healing Pipeline — CI/CD pipeline with autonomous failure detection
• GitLab Connector — real GitLab API integration for pipeline monitoring and triggering

How we built it

Built with Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, TypeScript, and WebSockets for real-time streaming. The GitLab Orbit client integrates via the Orbit CLI for knowledge graph queries. Deployed via Docker on Railway. 294 automated tests with Vitest. Zero external AI dependencies — all agent conversations are deterministic and self-contained.

Challenges

The main challenge was making the WebSocket server work seamlessly alongside Next.js App Router, and ensuring graceful fallbacks for every external dependency (GitLab, Gemini AI) so the app works fully in demo mode with rich mock data.

Built With

• better-sqlite3
• docker
• gitlab-orbit
• google-gemini-ai
• lucide-icons
• next.js-16
• react-19
• tailwind-css-4
• typescript
• vitest
• websockets