ReliefCopilot is an offline AI assistant that turns messy field notes into structured Action Plans and ICS-201 briefings, grounded in trusted humanitarian standards (Sphere, WHO, FEMA, IFRC, ICS).
Built for disaster response scenarios where connectivity is unreliable, ReliefCopilot runs entirely offline using Ollama and an open-weights LLM.
- 10–20× faster for responders to produce structured response plans in the first hour.
- Grounded & safe: retrieval-augmented over humanitarian handbooks, with explicit evidence citations.
- Strict schema validation ensures predictable JSON plans.
- Safety lints prevent unsafe clinical or dosing instructions.
- Offline-first: runs over localhost on laptops in the field.
reliefcopilot/
├── backend/
│ ├── app.py # FastAPI server
│ ├── rag.py # Retrieval (BM25 over humanitarian corpus)
│ ├── llm.py # Ollama chat client
│ ├── prompts.py # System prompts & few-shot templates
│ ├── utils.py # JSON normalizers, safety lint, injectors
│ ├── ingest.py # Corpus → chunks.jsonl
│ ├── schemas.py # Pydantic models (ActionPlan, Briefing)
│ ├── data/index/ # Auto-generated retrieval index
│ ├── corpus/ # Sphere, WHO, FEMA, IFRC, ICS guidance text
│ └── static/ # Frontend (UI, JS, CSS, PWA)
├── docker-compose.yml
├── Dockerfile
├── build.sh # Helper: docker compose build
├── up.sh # Helper: docker compose up
└── README.md
git clone https://github.com/<you>/reliefcopilot.git
cd reliefcopilot
./build.sh./up.shThis starts:
- Ollama →
localhost:11434 - ReliefCopilot API →
localhost:8000
docker exec -it ollama ollama pull gpt-oss:20b
⚠️ Hackathon requires the 20B model. For lighter hardware, you can change
MODEL_NAMEindocker-compose.ymlto a quantized model (e.g.,llama3.1:8b-instruct-q4_0).
http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/index.html
⚠️ Requires Python 3.11+ and Ollama installed locally.
git clone https://github.com/<you>/reliefcopilot.git
cd reliefcopilot
### 2. Create a virtual environment & install dependencies
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # macOS/Linux
# .venv\Scripts\activate # Windows PowerShell
pip install -r backend/requirements.txt
### 3. Start Ollama and pull the model
ollama serve &
ollama pull gpt-oss:20b # or llama3.1:8b-instruct-q4_0 if hardware is limited
### 4. Run ReliefCopilot backend
export OLLAMA_URL="http://127.0.0.1:11434"
export MODEL_NAME="gpt-oss:20b"
uvicorn backend.app:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
### 5. Open the UI
http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/index.html
Paste field notes → **Generate Action Plan** → **Make Briefing**.
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## 📊 How to read the outputs
### Action Plan
- **Incident / Location**: automatically extracted from logs.
- **Tasks**: table with ID, title, owner role, priority (P0=critical), timebox, and dependencies.
- **Comms**: SMS + PA announcements (ready to broadcast).
- **Translations**: Hindi & Telugu summaries for accessibility.
- **Evidence**: citations to Sphere/WHO/FEMA/IFRC/ICS snippets.
- **Warnings**: safety alerts (e.g., if model attempted clinical dosing).
### Briefing (ICS-201 style)
- Structured summary aligned to ICS-201 sections:
- **Incident Overview**
- **Assumptions**
- **Immediate Actions (priority-ordered)**
- **Communications**
- **Translations**
- **Evidence & References**
Tabbed viewer:
- **Rendered** (Markdown → clean HTML)
- **Raw** (exact Markdown text)
- **JSON** (structured output with `briefing_text`)
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## 📦 Offline mode (air-gapped)
If you need to seed the model without internet:
On a connected machine:
```bash
docker run --rm -d --name t_ollama -p 11434:11434 -v ollama_seed:/root/.ollama ollama/ollama
docker exec -it t_ollama ollama pull gpt-oss:20b
docker stop t_ollama
docker run --rm -v ollama_seed:/from -v $PWD:/to alpine sh -c "cd /from && tar -czf /to/ollama_models.tgz ."On the offline machine:
docker volume create ollama_models
docker run --rm -v ollama_models:/to -v $PWD:/from alpine sh -c "cd /to && tar -xzf /from/ollama_models.tgz"
./up.sh- GPU acceleration (Linux/NVIDIA): add GPU runtime options in
docker-compose.yml. - Corpus updates: add
.txtfiles underbackend/corpus/…and rebuild the index:python backend/ingest.py
- Judges’ takeaway: ReliefCopilot is an offline, schema-validated, evidence-grounded co-pilot for first responders.
- Impact metrics:
- Cuts planning time from ~30 min → ~2–3 min.
- Ensures standards compliance (Sphere/ICS).
- Multilingual support → accessibility.
- Extendable: Swap models (20B → smaller quant), add domain corpora, or integrate with radios/SMS gateways.