Reviews an assembled Resolve timeline by looking at its frames — pacing, shot order, continuity, and coverage gaps. Use after building or restructuring a cut, before showing it to the user. Reads frames as images, so run it as a subagent to keep them out of the main context.
Checks whether a change has left generated files, doc tool-counts, or attribution stale relative to their sources. Use before calling a change done when it touched AGENTS.md, docs/, src/server.py's tool registration, apitruth.py, or the control panel — the same family of checks npm-publish runs before every release…
Measures whether graded shots actually match — numerically, from rendered frames, not by eye or by grade metadata. Use after a shot match, a bulk grade application, or any claim that a sequence is consistent. Returns per-pair deltas and a pass/fail against the project's tolerance.
The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given. Load before assembling, restructuring, or refining any cut so the same note does not have to be given twice.
Walk through a version bump and release for the DaVinci Resolve MCP server — version selection, every file that needs updating, required validation, tag, and GitHub Release.
Audio and Fairlight work in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when setting audio properties, syncing audio, isolating voice, generating subtitles, planning Fairlight track/bus layouts, checking loudness, routing buses, or splitting/trimming/converting audio — live in a running Resolve OR offline. Routes to the live audio…
Color grading and look work in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when grading, correcting, matching shots, developing looks, or applying/modifying LUTs, CDLs, DRX grades, or copied grades — live in a running Resolve OR offline against .drx/.drp files. Routes to the live Python color tools, the offline advanced grading/QC…
Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when importing/relinking editorial, checking a conform against a reference, repairing reversed/retimed subclips, tracing grades across a re-conform, building relink plans, or QCing a conformed timeline frame-by-frame — live in a running…
Delivery, rendering, and deliverable QC in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when preparing render jobs, validating render settings, QCing a finished render against a spec (video/loudness/blanking/completeness), building or reconciling a render manifest, expanding texted/textless/stems/slate deliverables, verifying media…
Editing, cutting, trimming, pacing, and timeline restructuring in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when duplicating/moving clips, copying ranges, building variants, tightening or restructuring a cut, editing selects, or generating an editorial changelist/turnover — live in a running Resolve OR offline against .drt…
Fusion composition work in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when building or editing Fusion comps — titles, motion graphics, VFX, merges, masks, trackers — on a timeline item live in a running Resolve OR authoring a .comp declaratively offline. Routes to the live fusioncomp tools and the offline fusion authoring tool.
Orientation and index for DaVinci Resolve MCP work — grading, editing, conforming, delivery, media analysis, and .drp/.drt/.drx file work, live in a running Resolve or offline with none open. Load this for a map of the domain skills, the live-vs-offline servers, and the cross-cutting safety rules. The per-domain…
Media intelligence layer for the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Uses FFprobe, FFmpeg, and optionally Whisper to READ and ANALYZE source media — never modify, transcode, convert, or create derivatives. Provides the MCP with full context of what footage actually is so it can take informed actions within Resolve.
Media pool ingest and organization in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when importing media, building multicam timelines, organizing/relinking clips, normalizing metadata, setting clip marks, or verifying/inventorying a card before ingest — live in a running Resolve OR offline. Routes to the live mediapool tools and the…
Assembling a short-form social rough cut from raw behind-the-scenes or vlog footage in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when asked for a rough cut, first cut, assembly, or "make me a timeline" from a folder of footage — day-in-the-life, BTS, process, or product-shoot material destined for Reels, TikTok, or Shorts.…
Start a Resolve working session — connect, confirm the bridge and edition, open the project, and report timeline and media-pool state before any editing begins.
Tightening one long single-take recording — talking-head, screencast, tutorial, podcast video — by removing dead air in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when asked to tighten a recording, remove silences or dead air, cut the pauses out of a long take, or turn a raw one-take recording into a first cut. The subtractive…
Color / Grade in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — grading, correcting, shot matching, developing looks, or applying/modifying LUTs, CDLs, DRX grades, or copied grades.
Conform / Interchange in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — importing/relinking editorial, checking a conform against a reference, repairing reversed/retimed subclips, tracing grades across a re-conform, or QCing a conformed timeline.
Delivery / Deliverable QC in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — preparing render jobs, validating render settings, QCing a finished render vs spec, building render manifests, expanding texted/textless/stems deliverables, verifying media ingest, or producing a provenance/episode report.
Timeline Edit in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — cutting, trimming, pacing, duplicating/moving clips, copying ranges, building variants, tightening a cut, or generating an editorial changelist.