davinci-resolve-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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davinci-resolve-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from mrsuber/davinci-resolve-mcp. It costs 752 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of davinci-resolve-mcp copilot-instructions.md, MIT.

Repository instructions for an MCP server that controls DaVinci Resolve, a video-editing application, through its scripting interface and can also work with project files offline. They describe the project’s files, domain-specific guidance, and rules for protecting source media.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding the right files and instructions when changing Resolve integration, project-file handling, installers, or media workflows.
Why use it?
They help the coding agent make safe, consistent changes in a repository that combines video editing, audio work, and offline project-file editing.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is mrsuber/davinci-resolve-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on davinci-resolve-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything davinci-resolve-mcp configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mrsuber/davinci-resolve-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrsuber/davinci-resolve-mcp

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Security

Grade A, and why

davinci-resolve-mcp copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to davinci-resolve-mcp copilot-instructions.md — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 27 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 27 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DaVinci Resolve MCP Server — GitHub Copilot Instructions

This is the DaVinci Resolve MCP server: a Python MCP server (34 compound tools, 341 granular in --full mode) driving Resolve via its scripting API, plus an offline Node "advanced" server (18 tools) that authors .drp/.drt/.drx files and patches the project DB with no Resolve running. Kernel coverage: 136 guarded workflow actions.

  • Canonical agent brief: AGENTS.md. Operating reference: docs/SKILL.md. Per-action depth: docs/kernels/*. Advanced (offline) catalog: resolve-advanced/README.md.
  • Never modify, transcode, convert, proxy, relink, or create derivatives of source media unless explicitly asked. Analysis output goes to sidecars/scratch/the analysis project root.
  • Do not duplicate version numbers, tool counts, or kernel-action counts into prose — they drift. Reference the docs above.

Key files

  • src/server.py — compound MCP server (34 tools); src/resolve_mcp_server.py — Full server (341 tools).
  • resolve-advanced/ — offline Node advanced server (18 tools). install.py — universal installer.

Domain routing

Per-domain guidance lives in .github/instructions/resolve-*.instructions.md and, on demand in any MCP client, as the /<domain>_workflow slash prompts:

  • Color / Grade — grading, correcting, shot matching, developing looks, or applying/modifying LUTs, CDLs, DRX grades, or copied grades. Depth: docs/kernels/color-grade-kernel.md + docs/guides/color-decision-guide.md.
  • Timeline Edit — cutting, trimming, pacing, duplicating/moving clips, copying ranges, building variants, tightening a cut, or generating an editorial changelist. Depth: docs/kernels/timeline-edit-kernel.md + docs/guides/editorial-decision-guide.md.
  • Conform / Interchange — importing/relinking editorial, checking a conform against a reference, repairing reversed/retimed subclips, tracing grades across a re-conform, or QCing a conformed timeline. Depth: docs/kernels/timeline-conform-interchange-kernel.md.
  • Delivery / Deliverable QC — 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. Depth: docs/kernels/render-deliver-kernel.md.
  • Fusion Composition — building or editing Fusion comps — titles, motion graphics, VFX, merges, masks, trackers. Depth: docs/kernels/fusion-composition-kernel.md.
  • Audio / Fairlight — setting audio properties, syncing audio, isolating voice, generating subtitles, planning Fairlight tracks/buses, checking loudness, routing buses, or splitting/trimming/converting audio. Depth: docs/kernels/audio-fairlight-kernel.md.
  • Media Pool / Ingest — importing media, building multicam timelines, organizing/relinking clips, normalizing metadata, or verifying/inventorying a card before ingest. Depth: docs/kernels/media-pool-ingest-kernel.md + docs/guides/multicam-setup-guide.md.
  • Media Analysis — reading or analyzing source media (technical, visual, or transcription) to inform Resolve actions. Depth: docs/kernels/README.md + docs/guides/media-analysis-guide.md.

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Changes

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davinci-resolve-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mrsuber/davinci-resolve-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 752 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to davinci-resolve-mcp copilot-instructions.md, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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