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title: XCOM 2 Tactical Wingman emoji: 🎯 colorFrom: blue colorTo: indigo sdk: streamlit sdk_version: 1.38.0 app_file: app.py pinned: false license: mit

🎯 XCOM 2 Tactical Wingman

A local intelligent assistant (AI Agent) and strategic console designed to help XCOM 2 commanders make optimal base-building decisions, combat tactical choices, and soldier builds based on official guides and real game files.

Built as a submission for the AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Capstone Project (Kaggle & Google).

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👽 Overview & Problem Statement

XCOM 2 is a complex, high-stakes tactical game where a single miscalculation can lead to permanent character death ("permadeath") or campaign failure.

• The Problem: Game mechanics (like hidden "Aim Assist" multipliers, encounter tables, and facility construction costs) are buried inside massive, cryptic game configuration files (e.g., DefaultGameData.ini with 14,000+ lines) or spread across long-form wiki pages. Players are forced to alt-tab, search through forums, or make blind guesses.
• The Solution: XCOM 2 Tactical Wingman introduces a localized AI Agent acting as Central Officer Bradford. Bradford is context-aware of the current campaign state and uses a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to query real-time configuration parameters, difficulty compendiums, and strategy guides.

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🛠️ Architecture

graph TD
    User([Commander / User]) <--> |Streamlit Console UI| App[app.py]
    App <--> |Campaign State + User Query| Gemini[Gemini 2.5 Flash]
    Gemini <--> |Function Calling / Tools| MCPServer[mcp_server.py]
    MCPServer --> |Path Traversal Security Check| SandboxCheck{verify_sandbox_path}
    SandboxCheck --> |Authorized Read| LocalFiles[(Local Data folder)]
    LocalFiles -.-> |1. Clean Guides| XcomClear[data/XcomClear/*.txt]
    LocalFiles -.-> |2. Raw Configs| GameData[data/DefaultGameData_COMBINADO.txt]
    LocalFiles -.-> |3. Wiki Compendium| Compendium[difficulty_compendium.json]

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🏆 Hackathon Key Concepts Applied

This project demonstrates three of the core concepts covered in the Kaggle/Google Intensive Vibe Coding course:

1. Agent / System (ADK & Gemini API):

   • Uses the google-genai SDK to run gemini-2.5-flash in a chat session.
   • Dynamically injects the current Campaign State (difficulty, month, Avatar project progress, weapon/armor tiers, resources, active research) into the prompt header.
   • Configures the agent with custom system instructions, shaping its persona into the determined, military tone of Central Officer Bradford and directing it to output a structured Tactical Recommendation Report with success probabilities for campaign choices.

2. Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server:

   • Implements a self-contained python FastMCP server in [mcp_server.py](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/mcp_server.py).
   • Exposes three custom tools to the Gemini agent:
     • search_strategy_guide: Scans paragraph chunks of tactical wikis using custom tf-idf-like relevance scoring.
     • search_game_config: Runs filters over the 14,000+ line INI game config file.
     • get_difficulty_mechanics: Pulls hidden stats (e.g. aim assist bonuses, spawn timelines) from a local JSON compendium.

3. Security Features (Sandbox Validation):

   • Implement path traversal verification in [mcp_server.py](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/mcp_server.py#L26-30) using the verify_sandbox_path function.
   • Ensures that tools cannot be forced via prompt injection to read files outside the project's directory (C:\Users\carlo\Documents\XCOMGUIDE\tactical_wingman\data).

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📂 Project Structure

• [app.py](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/app.py): Streamlit dashboard and chat interface with Gemini 2.5 Flash.
• [mcp_server.py](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/mcp_server.py): FastMCP server declaring read-only lookup tools.
• [difficulty_compendium.json](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/difficulty_compendium.json): JSON database with aim assist factors and calendar tables.
• data/: Self-contained database of raw configs and strategy guides.
• [test_tools.py](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/test_tools.py): Unit test script to verify database queries.
• [requirements.txt](file:///C:/Users/carlo/Documents/XCOMGUIDE/tactical_wingman/requirements.txt): Python dependencies.

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🚀 Requirements and Setup

1. Configure Gemini API Key

Obtain an API key from Google AI Studio and export it:

# Windows (PowerShell)
$env:GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

# Windows (CMD)
set GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

Alternatively, you can paste the API Key directly in the UI sidebar.

2. Install Dependencies

Create a virtual environment and install requirements:

# Create environment
python -m venv .venv

# Activate environment
.venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run Verification Tests

Verify that the search tools read local files correctly:

python test_tools.py

4. Launch the Console

Start the Streamlit web console:

streamlit run app.py

This opens http://localhost:8501 in your browser.

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🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.