describe-surroundings

name	describe-surroundings
description	Describe the user's surroundings from the passthrough camera — the main objects and layout of the space — and label a few of them in place. Use for "what's around me?", "describe this room", "what's on my desk?", scene overviews, or accessibility narration. Triggers: describe, what's around me, what's here, look around, what's on the desk, scan the room.
license	MIT
compatibility	Requires JarvisVR agent-backend with perception enabled (camera_passthrough). Protocol v1.1 §8.
metadata	{"agent":"perception-agent","category":"perception","version":"1.0","author":"jarvisvr"}
allowed-tools	describe_view annotate_object show_vision_feed

Describe Surroundings

Give a concise, useful overview of what Jarvis currently sees and pin labels on the most relevant few objects (the backend caps annotations at ~3 so the view stays readable).

Steps

1. Ensure a fresh frame. If vision is active the buffer already has one; for a cold start request perception.request{stream:"vision", action:"once", reason:"user asked to describe the room"}.
2. Call describe_view. Returns data.speech, data.objects (top labels), and an observation{text, annotations} plus up to three vision_annotation directives. It also records what it saw to episodic memory (so locate-remembered-object can recall it later).
3. Narrate the scene with agent.observation; render the labels.
4. Optionally open show_vision_feed ("show me what you see") so the user can confirm the camera view with detection overlays.

Output

agent.observation with spatial annotations:

{ "text": "I can see a coffee mug, a laptop, and a notebook on your desk.",
  "final": true,
  "annotations": [
    { "label": "coffee mug", "position": [0.3,0.8,0.7], "anchor": "world" },
    { "label": "laptop", "position": [0.0,0.78,0.65], "anchor": "world" },
    { "label": "notebook", "position"    
   

Each annotation is realized as a vision_annotation holo.spawn (annotate_object). Optional feed (show_vision_feed → vision_feed):

{ "widget_type": "vision_feed",
  "props": { "title": "What Jarvis sees", "source": "rgb_center", "show_detections": true, "fps": 2.0 } }

Edge cases

• Empty / featureless view → "It's pretty bare from here — I mostly see a wall and the floor."
• Too cluttered → describe categories ("a desk covered in cables and a few mugs") rather than enumerating everything; cap labels at ~3.
• Specific subset asked ("just the desk") → describe only objects near the named surface from client.scene.surfaces.
• Single object focus → use identify-object instead.
• Privacy/battery → stop a once stream when finished; honor perception.state thermal/battery hints by lowering fps.