# Talkthrough MCP Server

Local MCP server: recordings or public video URLs into transcript, frames, OCR, wall-clock evidence.

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## Status

Pod has not dialled Talkthrough yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `talkthrough-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**8 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Semantic transcript search (local embeddings): tracking

Tracking issue for the semantic tier of transcript search (README Roadmap item, promoted to an issue after real-session evidence).

**Why.** `search` today is exact-substring — deliberate v1 scope (deterministic, zero deps, pointers-not-payloads). A real agent session hit its ceiling on *concept* queries: "where does he talk about the first phase" has no literal match against a transcript saying "the first one", "the first real phase", "the first step" (2026-07-14 tester feedback). Word-level…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcp/issues/15) · 2026-07-14 · open · 2 comments

### URL / YouTube ingestion (v2): design sketch

v1 is local-files-only by design. For v2, sketch: yt-dlp as optional extra, download to a temp file, then the normal content-addressed pipeline; wall-clock from upload metadata where available. Needs care: size caps, ToS notes, and keeping the default install lean (optional dependency group).

[Read the thread](https://github.com/korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 2 comments

### ≤0.2.4 cannot start in freshly resolved environments: MCP SDK 2.0.0 removed mcp.server.fastmcp (fixed in 0.2.5)

**Symptom.** The server process dies on import before the MCP handshake. Claude Code shows:

```
/mcp  →  Failed to reconnect to plugin:talkthrough:talkthrough: -32000
```

Running the server command manually shows the real error:

```
File ".../talkthrough_mcp/server.py", line 20, in <module>
    from mcp.server.fastmcp import Context, FastMCP, Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mcp.server.fastmcp'
```

**Cause.** The MCP Python SDK released 2.0.0 on 2026-07-28, which removes the…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcp/issues/40) · 2026-07-31 · closed · 1 comment

### search: multi-word queries should match by words, not exact phrase (+ Unicode/ё-е normalization)

**Problem** (2026-07-14 tester batch, agent-driven session): `search` is exact-substring, so a multi-word query silently means *exact phrase*. `search("first phase")` returns zero hits against a transcript that says "the first one", "the first real phase", "the first step" — the information is there, the agent concludes it isn't. Guidance already steers agents toward "a distinctive word", but the tool should survive natural usage instead of trapping it.

**Proposal — the dependency-free tier…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcp/issues/16) · 2026-07-14 · closed · 1 comment

### get_frames / get_moment: explicit validity span (valid_from_ms / valid_to_ms) per served keyframe

**Insight from an early tester** (2026-07-14 batch, agent-driven session): perceptual dedup means a range query over a static minute returns a single keyframe — great for token budgets — and "what was on screen at time T" is answerable by reasoning over `duplicate_of` chains / nearest keyframes. But that's an *inference* the agent has to make every time. Return it as data instead.

**Proposal.** For every served unique keyframe, add an explicit validity span:

```json
"valid_from_ms": 47166,…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcp/issues/14) · 2026-07-14 · closed · 1 comment

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for Talkthrough](/mcp/talkthrough/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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