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Talkthrough MCP Server

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

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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.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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:

"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).

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