Project: engine-mcp Version: 2.0 Last Updated: 2025-10-05 Approach: Placeholder-first, then incremental real implementation
This document tracks the implementation status of all features. We start with all features using placeholders, then replace them incrementally one integration at a time.
- ✅ REAL - Production-ready implementation with real API calls
- 🔄 PLACEHOLDER - Mock implementation for testing workflow
- ⏸️ NOT STARTED - Not yet implemented (placeholder or real)
⚠️ PARTIAL - Some parts real, some placeholder
| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL Schema | ✅ REAL | All tables, indexes, triggers created |
| pgvector Extension | ✅ REAL | Vector similarity search enabled (1536 dims) |
| Database Client | ✅ REAL | Supabase SDK with async operations |
| Supabase Integration | ✅ REAL | Local instance running, migrations applied |
| Background Jobs | ✅ REAL | asyncio.create_task() for non-blocking processing |
| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Project Model | ✅ REAL | Pydantic v2 with validation |
| SourceVideo Model | ✅ REAL | Multi-platform support (YouTube, TikTok, etc.) |
| Quote Model | ✅ REAL | Speech clips with embeddings, scores |
| Asset Model | ✅ REAL | Visual footage with embeddings |
| Script Models | ✅ REAL | Scripts, segments, visual layers |
| Cost Tracking Models | ✅ REAL | API cost tracking by provider |
| Enum Definitions | ✅ REAL | Platform, JobType, JobStatus, etc. |
| Integration | Status | Contract Tested | Timing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | ~48s/video | Real video analysis with structured JSON |
| OpenAI Embeddings | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | <1s | text-embedding-3-small (1536 dims) |
| ElevenLabs TTS | ⏸️ NOT STARTED | ⏸️ NO | - | TTS with word timestamps (TBI) |
| YouTube (yt-dlp) | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | ~1s/video | Real YouTube search and metadata |
| Pexels API | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | <1s | Free stock footage search (images & videos) |
Placeholder Timing:
- All placeholders use realistic delays matching production API latency
- Gemini video analysis: 8s (prod: 10-60s)
- YouTube search: 2s (prod: 2-5s)
- Enables proper cache testing with background jobs
| Tool | Status | Tested | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| create_project | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Initialize new project |
| get_project | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Fetch project details |
| list_projects | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | List all projects |
| delete_project | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Delete with cascade |
| search_videos | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Multi-platform video search |
| start_metadata_extraction | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Background metadata jobs |
| get_metadata_status | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Poll job status |
| mark_videos_for_extraction | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Mark videos for content extraction |
| start_extraction_queue | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Background content extraction |
| get_extraction_status | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Poll extraction jobs |
| list_quotes | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | List extracted quotes (paginated, limit=20) |
| approve_quotes | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Approve quote candidates |
| list_assets | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | List extracted assets (paginated, limit=20) |
| list_videos_with_metadata | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | List videos with metadata (paginated, limit=20) |
| list_source_videos | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | List source videos with filters (paginated, compact output) |
| search_stock_footage | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Pexels search + save basic info (with deduplication) |
| extract_pexels_descriptions | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Async batch Gemini analysis for Pexels assets |
| upload_user_asset | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | User uploads with Gemini analysis |
| create_script | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Initialize script (compact output with last_edited) |
| update_script | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Update script metadata |
| get_script | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Get script by ID |
| list_scripts | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | List project scripts (compact output with last_edited) |
| delete_script | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Delete script by ID |
| search_quotes_for_segment | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Semantic search for quotes using embeddings |
| search_assets_for_segment | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Semantic search for assets using embeddings |
| analyze_script_for_visual_needs | ⏸️ TBI | ⏸️ NO | Suggests B-roll needs |
| export_to_premiere_xml | ⏸️ TBI | ⏸️ NO | Generate Premiere XML |
| export_to_davinci_edl | ⏸️ TBI | ⏸️ NO | Generate DaVinci EDL |
Script Parsing Update (2025-10-09):
- ✅
create_scriptnow uses HTML-like segment format with explicit tags - ✅ Supports
<segment id="seg_XXX" purpose="...">and<quote id="123">tags - ✅ Validates segment IDs, purposes, and quote content (95% fuzzy match)
- ✅ Auto-creates
quote_visuallayers for quote segments - ✅ Returns comprehensive validation report with warnings
- ✅ 19 unit tests for parser + 9 integration tests for workflow
Architecture:
- ✅ All tools separated from MCP server (testable independently)
- ✅ server.py contains ONLY FastMCP wrappers (thin layer)
- ✅ All business logic in
tools/directory
| Service | Status | Tested | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost Tracker | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Track Gemini, OpenAI costs (placeholder amounts) |
| Vector Search | ✅ REAL | ✅ YES | Embedding-based similarity search |
| Timing Calculator | ⏸️ NOT STARTED | ⏸️ NO | Segment timing validation |
| Export Generator | ⏸️ NOT STARTED | ⏸️ NO | XML/ZIP package creation |
| Test Suite | Status | Count | Passing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit Tests | ✅ REAL | 27 | ✅ 27/27 | All tool functions with mocked DB |
| Pexels Workflow | ✅ REAL | 8 | ✅ 8/8 | Complete Pexels integration workflow |
| E2E Workflow | ✅ REAL | 2 | ✅ 2/2 | Full workflow + cache validation |
| TOTAL | ✅ REAL | 37 | ✅ 37/37 | 100% passing |
Test Infrastructure:
- ✅ Real Supabase database (local)
- ✅ Background job polling helpers
- ✅ python-dotenv for environment variables
- ✅ Comprehensive fixtures (clean_db, sample_project, sample_video)
- Database schema deployed to Supabase ✅
- Database client with Supabase SDK ✅
- All Pydantic models defined and tested ✅
- All placeholder integrations implemented ✅
- All tools testable without MCP connection ✅
- All MCP wrappers implemented (server.py) ✅
- Cost tracking system functional ✅
- Background job processing (asyncio.create_task) ✅
- Placeholder contract tests passing ✅
- End-to-end workflow test passing ✅
-
IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.mdcreated ✅ - All tool descriptions include [PLACEHOLDER MODE] markers
⚠️ TODO
- ✅ Replace YouTube (yt-dlp) placeholder with real library
- ✅ Replace OpenAI embeddings placeholder with real API
- ✅ Replace Gemini placeholder with real API
- ✅ Maintain 100% test pass rate throughout
| Task | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Install yt-dlp library | ✅ DONE | Already in pyproject.toml |
| Replace search_youtube_videos() | ✅ DONE | Real YouTube search with ytsearch{n}: |
| Replace fetch_video_metadata() | ✅ DONE | Full metadata extraction |
| Replace get_video_formats() | ✅ DONE | Format list extraction |
| Replace download_video() | ✅ DONE | Best quality download |
| Write integration tests | ✅ DONE | 7 tests in test_youtube_integration.py |
| Update tests for real data | ✅ DONE | Uses real video IDs, handles variability |
| Remove [PLACEHOLDER MODE] markers | ✅ DONE | Updated tool descriptions in server.py |
| Verify all tests pass | ✅ DONE | 52/52 tests passing (45 + 7 new) |
| Task | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Install openai library | ✅ DONE | AsyncOpenAI client initialized |
| Replace generate_embedding() | ✅ DONE | text-embedding-3-small (1536 dims) |
| Add error handling + retries | ✅ DONE | Async implementation with proper error handling |
| Update cost tracking | ✅ DONE | Real token tracking: $0.02 per 1M tokens |
| Test vector search with real embeddings | ✅ DONE | pgvector cosine similarity working |
| Task | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Install google-genai library | ✅ DONE | Using google-genai (not legacy) |
| Replace analyze_youtube_video() | ✅ DONE | Real video analysis with structured JSON output |
| Replace analyze_image() | ✅ DONE | Real image analysis with inline data |
| Add error handling + retries | ✅ DONE | Tenacity retry with exponential backoff |
| Update cost tracking | ✅ DONE | Input/output tokens tracked (YouTube videos FREE) |
| Test content extraction end-to-end | ✅ DONE | E2E test: 13 quotes + 38 assets from 65s video |
| Remove [PLACEHOLDER MODE] markers | ✅ DONE | Updated tool descriptions |
- Replace Pexels placeholder with real API ✅
- WIP: User asset storage - Currently stores file path, needs Supabase Storage integration
- Implement ElevenLabs TTS placeholder
- Replace ElevenLabs with real API
- Test user upload workflow
- Implement script building logic
- Implement timing calculations
- Implement Premiere XML export
- Test complete script → export flow
- Remove all remaining [PLACEHOLDER MODE] markers
- Comprehensive error handling
- Cost optimization
- Production documentation
- Deployment guide
When replacing a placeholder with real implementation:
- Verify tests pass with placeholder first
- Add real API credentials to .env
- Replace implementation incrementally (one function at a time)
- Update status in this file (PLACEHOLDER → REAL)
- Run tests after each change
- Update cost tracking with real rates
- Remove [PLACEHOLDER MODE] from tool description
- Run full test suite to ensure no regressions
- Commit changes with descriptive message
# Jobs return immediately, run in background
result = await start_extraction_queue(db, project_id)
# Returns instantly with job_ids
# Poll for completion
while True:
status = await get_extraction_status(db, project_id)
if status["pending"] == 0 and status["processing"] == 0:
break # All done!
await asyncio.sleep(0.5)metadata_statusfield: Prevents duplicate YouTube metadata fetchesextraction_statusfield: Prevents duplicate Gemini video analysis- Verified working with realistic timing (8s delays)
wait_for_jobs_completion(): Polls until jobs finishclean_db: Deletes all test data before each test- Real database testing (no mocks for e2e)
Added pagination to all list functions to prevent context size issues:
- list_quotes - Now returns
{quotes: [...], total, limit, offset, has_more}(default limit=20) - list_assets - Now returns
{assets: [...], total, limit, offset, has_more}(default limit=20) - list_videos_with_metadata - Now returns
{videos: [...], total, limit, offset, has_more}(default limit=20) - list_source_videos - Now returns
{videos: [...], total, limit, offset, has_more}(default limit=20)
All functions return the same data as before (all fields except embeddings), just wrapped in pagination envelope.
Replaced Pexels placeholder with real API integration:
- search_pexels_images - Real Pexels image search via REST API
- search_pexels_videos - Real Pexels video search via REST API
- download_pexels_media - Real file download to local storage
- Uses
requestslibrary withasyncio.to_threadfor non-blocking I/O - 8 integration tests passing (test_pexels_workflow.py)
- FREE API usage (royalty-free stock footage)
Implemented two-phase Pexels workflow for better performance:
- Phase 1: search_stock_footage - Search and save basic info only (fast, <1s)
- Phase 2: extract_pexels_descriptions - Async batch description extraction with Gemini (3-5s per asset)
- Asset deduplication across projects via unique constraint on
(pexels_id, media_type) - Reuses existing assets automatically when same Pexels media is searched again
- Description extraction status tracking: pending → processing → completed
Updated all MCP tools to return compact, human-readable responses:
- Removed fields:
created_at,updated_at, unnecessary metadata - Added field:
last_edited- Human-readable timestamp ("just now", "5m ago", "2h ago", "3d ago") - Kept fields: Long descriptions, essential metadata, embeddings (where needed)
- Applies to:
search_youtube_videos,list_source_videos,create_script,list_scripts
Updated end-to-end tests to use new Pexels workflow and compact outputs:
- Replaced
save_stock_footagewithsearch_stock_footage+extract_pexels_descriptions - Updated all list function calls to handle dict responses with pagination
- Increased Gemini extraction timeout to 600s (10 minutes) for longer videos
- 2/2 e2e tests passing in ~3-4 minutes
- Complete workflow test: 10 videos, 20 quotes, 20 assets, $0.0352 cost
- Cache validation test: metadata and content extraction caching verified
- ✅ All placeholders return realistic fake data to enable workflow testing
- ✅ Placeholder costs tracked as $0.00 but with correct structure
- ✅ Real implementations must match placeholder function signatures exactly
- ✅ Integration tests validate placeholder contracts before replacement
- ✅ E2E test passes with real APIs - ready for production
- ✅ Background processing production-ready (asyncio.create_task)
- ✅ Pagination added to all list functions (2025-10-08)
- ✅ Compact outputs with human-readable timestamps (2025-10-08)
- ✅ Pexels workflow with asset deduplication (2025-10-08)
- ✅ 27/27 unit tests passing (100%)
- ✅ 8/8 Pexels workflow integration tests passing (100%)
- ✅ 2/2 e2e tests passing (100%)
- ✅ Total: 37/37 tests passing (100%)
Last updated: 2025-10-08 (Week 2 Complete - Pexels Workflow + Compact Outputs)