Video Frame Digesting & Temporal Memory Skill (video-ingest)
This skill provides step-by-step guidance, best practices, and operational patterns for digesting WebM, MP4, and GIF video recordings using @putervision/vision-memory-mcp.
1. When to Use Video Ingestion
Use video ingestion whenever you encounter:
- E2E Playwright / Cypress / Selenium Test Artifacts: Recorded
.webm screenchunks or .mp4 test run videos.
- Bug Reproduction Videos: User-uploaded screen recordings demonstrating UI glitches or crashes.
- UI Walkthrough Recordings: Demonstrations of complex multi-step user workflows.
- Visual Regression Diagnostics: Comparing a passing baseline video run against a failing test run.
2. Ingestion Strategies & Parameter Tuning
| Scenario |
Recommended Parameters |
Why |
| Action Event Timestamps (Highest Precision) |
action_timestamps: [1.2, 3.5, 7.0] |
Samples keyframes at exact interaction timestamps (clicks, types, navigation events) from test runners or state-memory logs. |
| Dynamic UI / Animations |
scene_threshold: 0.3, fps: 1 |
Combines scene-change detection (gt(scene,0.3)) with 1 fps background sampling to capture major screen transitions without frame bloat. |
| High-Speed Test Runs |
fps: 2 or fps: 5 |
Increases frame rate sampling for rapidly switching UI test steps. |
| Long Screen Recordings |
fps: 0.5, scene_threshold: 0.4 |
Lowers sampling rate to conserve storage while extracting unique keyframe states. |
3. Mandatory Dual-MCP Evidence Workflow
When diagnosing bugs or linking test runs to task nodes:
- Ingest Video: Call
manage_video (action: "ingest") with file path and action timestamps.
- Extract Evidence Payload: Read the returned
evidence_payload containing source_video_id, frame_range, and timestamps_ms.
- Build Evidence Pack: Call
create_evidence_pack linking keyframe_state_ids with state-memory-mcp task or blocker node IDs.
- Compare Trajectories (On Failure): Call
compare_states(video_a_id: "...", video_b_id: "...") to pinpoint exact frame divergence points.
4. CLI Quick Reference
# Ingest WebM / MP4 video recording with custom category
vision-memory-mcp video ingest ./recording.webm --category e2e_test
# Ingest with explicit action timestamps
vision-memory-mcp video ingest ./bug.mp4 --category bug_repro --action-timestamps 1.2,3.5,8.0
# Inspect chronological timeline & keyframes for a video ID
vision-memory-mcp video inspect vid_d7fc21c0ad52f861
# List all ingested video memory records
vision-memory-mcp video list
5. Consolidated Video MCP Tools Reference
manage_video (action: "ingest"): Ingests video file/base64, extracts keyframes, dHash deduplicates, and generates CLIP vector embeddings.manage_video (action: "timeline"): Fetches step-by-step keyframes, exact timestamps (timestamp_ms), OCR snippets, and grounded target handles.manage_video (action: "search"): Searches video memory by description query, category, tags, or file path.compare_states (video_a_id, video_b_id): Calculates similarity score between two recordings and pinpoints exact timestamp divergence.create_evidence_pack: Produces an immutable, cryptographically hashable evidence pack payload linking keyframes to task graph nodes.
1---2name: video-ingest3description: Teaches the agent to process, ingest, analyze, and compare WebM, MP4, and GIF video recordings using vision-memory-mcp and state-memory-mcp.4---56# Video Frame Digesting & Temporal Memory Skill (video-ingest)78This skill provides step-by-step guidance, best practices, and operational patterns for digesting WebM, MP4, and GIF video recordings using `@putervision/vision-memory-mcp`.910---1112## 1. When to Use Video Ingestion1314Use video ingestion whenever you encounter:15- **E2E Playwright / Cypress / Selenium Test Artifacts**: Recorded `.webm` screenchunks or `.mp4` test run videos.16- **Bug Reproduction Videos**: User-uploaded screen recordings demonstrating UI glitches or crashes.17- **UI Walkthrough Recordings**: Demonstrations of complex multi-step user workflows.18- **Visual Regression Diagnostics**: Comparing a passing baseline video run against a failing test run.1920---2122## 2. Ingestion Strategies & Parameter Tuning2324| Scenario | Recommended Parameters | Why |25| -------- | ---------------------- | --- |26| **Action Event Timestamps** *(Highest Precision)* | `action_timestamps: [1.2, 3.5, 7.0]` | Samples keyframes at exact interaction timestamps (clicks, types, navigation events) from test runners or state-memory logs. |27| **Dynamic UI / Animations** | `scene_threshold: 0.3`, `fps: 1` | Combines scene-change detection (`gt(scene,0.3)`) with 1 fps background sampling to capture major screen transitions without frame bloat. |28| **High-Speed Test Runs** | `fps: 2` or `fps: 5` | Increases frame rate sampling for rapidly switching UI test steps. |29| **Long Screen Recordings** | `fps: 0.5`, `scene_threshold: 0.4` | Lowers sampling rate to conserve storage while extracting unique keyframe states. |3031---3233## 3. Mandatory Dual-MCP Evidence Workflow3435When diagnosing bugs or linking test runs to task nodes:36371. **Ingest Video**: Call `manage_video` (`action: "ingest"`) with file path and action timestamps.382. **Extract Evidence Payload**: Read the returned `evidence_payload` containing `source_video_id`, `frame_range`, and `timestamps_ms`.393. **Build Evidence Pack**: Call `create_evidence_pack` linking `keyframe_state_ids` with `state-memory-mcp` task or blocker node IDs.404. **Compare Trajectories (On Failure)**: Call `compare_states(video_a_id: "...", video_b_id: "...")` to pinpoint exact frame divergence points.4142---4344## 4. CLI Quick Reference4546```bash47# Ingest WebM / MP4 video recording with custom category48vision-memory-mcp video ingest ./recording.webm --category e2e_test4950# Ingest with explicit action timestamps51vision-memory-mcp video ingest ./bug.mp4 --category bug_repro --action-timestamps 1.2,3.5,8.05253# Inspect chronological timeline & keyframes for a video ID54vision-memory-mcp video inspect vid_d7fc21c0ad52f8615556# List all ingested video memory records57vision-memory-mcp video list58```5960---6162## 5. Consolidated Video MCP Tools Reference6364- `manage_video` (`action: "ingest"`): Ingests video file/base64, extracts keyframes, dHash deduplicates, and generates CLIP vector embeddings.65- `manage_video` (`action: "timeline"`): Fetches step-by-step keyframes, exact timestamps (`timestamp_ms`), OCR snippets, and grounded target handles.66- `manage_video` (`action: "search"`): Searches video memory by description query, category, tags, or file path.67- `compare_states` (`video_a_id`, `video_b_id`): Calculates similarity score between two recordings and pinpoints exact timestamp divergence.68- `create_evidence_pack`: Produces an immutable, cryptographically hashable evidence pack payload linking keyframes to task graph nodes.
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