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Note

Limits come in PR 7, right after this one. This PR has no limit on automatic clips: every character [video] in a reply starts a clip, and nothing spaces clips out between replies. Item 7 of #7545 adds a Video Run Interval and a Videos per reply setting (Settings, Generations, Video Generation; default 3). Until then, test with one character or a cheap video model.

Linked issue

Closes #7859
Part of #7545 (item 6). @SpicyMarinara

Why this change

• Videos only happened when you asked for one. In Conversation a character could send a selfie on its own but never a video message.
• In Roleplay, Illustrator drew pictures on its own but could never make a short clip, even for a moment where motion is the point (a fight, a chase, something breaking), and there was no way to have clips instead of pictures.

What changed

Nothing that worked before stops working: Generated Videos starts off, and Illustrator makes starts on Pictures, so existing chats behave as before.

Conversation

• Generated Videos (Chat Settings, Agents, Illustrator Settings, Video messages; off by default, saved in settings profiles): characters can send a video message on their own with a hidden [video] command when it fits. The same switch appears as Videos in the Commands list of the new-chat setup and Chat Settings.
• A bare [video] is written from the recent conversation, as /video is, so a clip you asked for shows what you asked for.
• A clip that names you describes you (your persona, or a character you play as who is not one of the chat's characters), and a clip that names your persona is listed in your persona's gallery.

Roleplay (Chat Settings, Agents, Illustrator)

• Illustrator makes: Pictures (the default), Pictures and clips (Illustrator may turn the picture it just made into a short clip when motion is the point; it is skipped when Illustrator doesn't say how the scene moves), or Clips only (a clip instead of every picture; the picture is the clip's starting frame and goes to the Gallery, and is shown instead if the clip fails). Custom agents that create images follow the same setting.
• First frame is shown in Roleplay too: a new Illustrator picture, the avatar or sprite, the picture with the avatar as fallback, or no picture. With Clips only and the avatar or no picture, no picture is drawn at all. With no First frame chosen, a clip never draws a picture just for itself.
• Send Avatar References becomes a dropdown with a Videos choice: a Prompt only clip then starts from the avatar, and First frame reads Prompt only (avatar from Send Avatar References). Use agent default resets both halves.
• A clip with no picture of its own is written by a new Roleplay Clip Director prompt (Settings, Generations, Video Generation Prompt Overrides), describing everyone it names, your persona included.
• Re-running Illustrator on a reply (its Illustrate button) follows Illustrator makes and First frame too: Clips only makes a clip (no picture with the avatar or no-picture first frame), and Pictures and clips may add one. Before, a re-run only ever drew a picture.
• Without a working video connection, Illustrator makes pictures, even with Clips only, and is not offered clips.

Every clip

• Follows the video connection's Video Prompting Instructions: format, fields, line breaks, and a JSON shape they ask for. When the instructions speak to appearance, it is built into the prompt.
• A saved clip always counts as made: if adding it to the reply fails, it stays in the Gallery with a "saved to the Gallery's Videos tab" toast, and no error or stand-in picture.

Code: the clip pieces shared by a fresh reply and a re-run (who a clip shows, its prompt, the clip offer to Illustrator) live in services/video/roleplay-illustrator-clips.ts; the <optional_video> offer text is shared by the Illustrator agent and the Illustrate planner.

Docs: docs/conversation/selfies.md and docs/media/illustrator-agent.md.

Validation

• pnpm check passes locally
• Container (Docker / Podman) built and ran without issue
• Ran the app, clicked through the changes manually
• Checked edge cases (light + dark mode, mobile viewport, empty states, error paths)
• Above manual verification completed (describe below)
• Read and followed CONTRIBUTING.md

Automated runs on 4c238350c (on staging be73c3122, Node 24.21.0):

• pnpm check: passes. Its one lint warning, in HomeProfessorMariChat.tsx, is not from this PR.
• pnpm localization:check: passes.
• Regressions, through the real routes with fake text, image and ComfyUI services:
  • agent-generated-videos: Conversation [video] on and off, the bare [video] reading the recent conversation, Pictures and clips and Clips only (picture first frame), a failed clip showing its picture, a saved-but-unattached clip counting as made, persona tagging, a character played as the user, and appearance built in when the instructions ask for it.
  • roleplay-clip-first-frame: Clips only with Prompt only, Avatar and New picture; Send Avatar References for videos; the Clip Director and instruction-shaped answers; Clips only without a working video connection making pictures; and re-running Illustrator (Clips only makes a clip with no picture; Pictures and clips adds the clip the planner asked for, and none when it didn't).
  • prompt (JSON directions shaped by the instructions), character-identity, capability-gm-verbs.
  • The new checks fail without their fixes.
• Full pnpm regression on 4c238350c: 936/938 pass. The two failures, env-watcher ("a created .env is picked up") and storage-writer-lock ("the watcher must exit because it lost the writer lease"), fail the same way on staging be73c3122 on this machine; both depend on file watching and process timing, and this PR doesn't touch them.
• Local CodeRabbit (CLI 0.9.0), four passes on 2026-10-19 (the whole branch, then each round of fixes), on top of the earlier rounds; every finding fixed or declined with a reason:
  • Fixed: Clips only without a working video connection; JSON answers shaped by Video Prompting Instructions; Use agent default resetting the video half; the test fixture's teardown; guide wording; one cast for a re-run's pictures and clips (it dropped the persona's character-sheet setting); a re-run clip refreshing its chat after switching chats.
  • Declined: 16px text for the new selects on phones (globals.css already sets every select to 1rem under @media (pointer: coarse), "prevents iOS zoom on focus", and every select in the panel uses the same size).
• GitHub CodeRabbit review on 4c238350c: 6 comments, answered in each thread.
  • Fixed in 6d565c466: the Avatar first frame no longer borrows another person's face when the first person named has no picture (roleplay-clip-first-frame covers it and fails without the fix); the Videos command entry uses catalog keys in Chat Settings and the new-chat setup; gallery.routes.ts uses the shared buildRoleplayVideoSettingLine instead of its own copy.
  • Declined: passing the abort signal to clips. It also fires on a browser disconnect, which would cancel a paid render minutes from done; the tracker's planned "Keep generating when the browser disconnects" goes the other way.
  • On 6d565c466: pnpm check and pnpm localization:check pass; roleplay-clip-first-frame, agent-generated-videos, media-reference-scope, convo-video-command and prompt pass.
• Not run: pnpm smoke:ui and pnpm regression:ui.

Manual verification notes

Limits arrive in PR 7, so test with one character or a cheap video model. In PR 6, Illustrator's Image Run Interval (5 by default) also paces Clips only; set it to 1 to run Illustrator on every reply.

• Manually verify in a Conversation chat: turn on Generated Videos (or Videos in Commands), ask a character for a video, and check the clip lands on their reply; with it off, no clip arrives and /video still works.
• Manually verify a clip that names your persona lists in your persona's gallery, and with Attach Card Appearance on Videos, its prompt carries your appearance; do the same while playing as a character who isn't in the chat.
• Manually verify Roleplay Pictures and clips: an action moment gives a picture, then a clip on the same reply; a calm moment gives a picture only.
• Manually verify Clips only with First frame New Illustrator picture (clip in the reply, picture in the Gallery only), then Avatar and Prompt only (no picture drawn).
• Manually verify Illustrate on a reply in Clips only makes a clip and draws no picture (Avatar or Prompt only), and in Pictures and clips can add a clip.
• Manually verify Clips only with no working video connection gives pictures and no error.
• Manually verify Send Avatar References on Videos with Prompt only shows the avatar label and starts the clip from the avatar, and Use agent default clears both halves.
• Manually verify a connection whose Video Prompting Instructions ask for a multi-field or JSON format keeps that format in the prompt sent.
• Manually verify a clip that fails (stop the video service mid-render) shows the picture instead with a "Video generation failed" toast.
• Manually verify the new settings at phone width and in light and dark mode.

Docs and release impact

• No docs changes needed
• Updated docs (README / CONTRIBUTING / android/README) as needed
• Translated docs on the docs-i18n branch updated to match, or a [docs-i18n] follow-up issue opened (see CONTRIBUTING.md § Translated documentation)
• Version/release files updated (only if this PR includes a version bump)

English docs updated: docs/conversation/selfies.md, docs/media/illustrator-agent.md. Translations: #7861

UI evidence (if applicable)

Roleplay mode illustrator agent additions

"Pictures and Clips" illustrator setting demo

(Note: I did not have an I2V workflow activated here in ComfyUI, thus the visual difference between the image and video.)

"Clips Only" illustrator settings demo

Videos command toggle

Convo mode: requesting a clip with Videos toggle enabled

Convo mode: requesting a clip with Videos toggle disabled (reverts to image)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added optional generated video messages for conversations using video commands.
  • Added Roleplay and Illustrator video generation with picture-only, mixed, and clips-only modes.
  • Added configurable first-frame choices, avatar references, appearance details, and gallery-image animation.
  • Videos can be attached to messages or saved to the Gallery, with picture fallback when needed.
  • Added settings for video commands, prompt customization, and video-generation behavior.
  • Added localized notifications when video generation or attachment fails.

• Documentation

  • Updated guides covering generated videos, Illustrator modes, first frames, and avatar references.

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📝 Walkthrough

Conversation characters can now autonomously send clips through an opt-in [video] command. Illustrator supports configurable picture, mixed, and clip-only Roleplay generation with first-frame selection, attachment handling, fallback behavior, and regression coverage.

Changes: Generated Conversation and Roleplay Videos

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Video settings and shared prompt guidance packages/shared/src/types/chat.ts, packages/client/src/components/chat/*, packages/client/src/localization/locales/en.json, packages/server/src/services/generation/image-prompt-instructions.ts, packages/server/src/services/video/appearance-reference.ts, docs/*	Chat settings now include the opt-in Conversation video command, Illustrator output modes, first-frame choices, and separate image and video avatar-reference controls. Shared helpers and documentation describe video instructions and appearance details.
Conversation video commands packages/server/src/services/conversation/*, packages/server/src/services/generation/conversation-*, packages/server/src/services/agents/agent-executor.ts, packages/client/src/hooks/use-generate.ts	The runtime parses and gates hidden [video] commands, generates clips from recent conversation context, attaches clips when possible, and reports completion or failure events.
Roleplay clip prompts and generation packages/server/src/services/video/*, packages/server/src/services/prompt-overrides/*, packages/server/src/routes/gallery.routes.ts, scripts/regressions/prompt.regression.ts	Roleplay services resolve clip offers, cast and appearance details, first-frame sources, and clip directions. Direction handling preserves configured video prompt formats, including JSON output.
Illustrator clip generation and fallback packages/server/src/routes/generate.routes.ts, scripts/regressions/agent-generated-videos.regression.ts	Generation routes support clips-only and pictures-and-clips modes. Clips can use generated pictures, avatars, or no picture as a first frame. Pictures can remain deferred until clip generation succeeds and are revealed when clip generation fails.
Illustrator retries and regression coverage packages/server/src/routes/generate/retry-agents-route.ts, packages/server/src/services/generation/illustrator-manual-prompt-generation.ts, scripts/regressions/fixtures/*, scripts/regressions/roleplay-clip-first-frame.regression.ts, scripts/regressions/character-identity.regression.ts	Retry flows pass video offers to prompt planning, reuse cast references, and apply configured clip and picture behavior. Regression fixtures cover first-frame selection, retries, appearance details, persistence, attachment fallback, and cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatSettings
  participant IllustratorRoute
  participant ClipTools
  participant VideoGenerator
  participant Message
  ChatSettings->>IllustratorRoute: Video mode and first-frame settings
  IllustratorRoute->>ClipTools: Clip request and cast context
  ClipTools->>VideoGenerator: Clip prompt and selected first frame
  VideoGenerator->>IllustratorRoute: Saved clip
  IllustratorRoute->>Message: Attach clip when possible

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Possibly related PRs

• Pasta-Devs/Marinara-Engine#7651: Adds the Conversation video-generation path and shared video settings and helpers that this change extends.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f5566

Stopping or disconnecting during video generation may leave paid provider requests running until completion.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f5566

Automatic videos are opt-in, and inspected image and video operations remain scoped to the selected chat. However, stopping a reply does not reliably stop its video work, which can continue consuming the configured account and saving results. Existing timeouts limit individual attempts, but automatic workload limits are deferred.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Automatic and retried clip work is disconnected from caller cancellation. Queued or running requests can continue using configured provider credentials and persist a clip after the originating operation is stopped. Retry checkpoints can prevent attachment afterward, but do not stop the expensive operation itself. This weakens resource containment as video generation becomes automatically reachable from replies; exact historical attribution remains limited by the unavailable comparison base.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported exposure is consumption of the configured generation account, shared media capacity and chat-owned video storage. Multiple replies can leave media outstanding because the reply lock is released before media completion. No anonymous or cross-tenant exploit path was established by the inspected evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A party able to influence replies in a video-enabled chat may amplify paid work through repeated video commands. The inspected execution loop starts a job for each command, and those jobs carry no caller cancellation signal. The PR explicitly defers per-reply and interval limits. This is a bounded resource-control concern, not a verified remote privilege escalation or cross-chat access finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Generated command text is subject to an explicit video opt-in filter. Multiplayer policy excludes video from its allowed Conversation commands, and the execution loop checks that policy again. Roleplay video offers separately require an eligible mode and a valid configured video connection.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The lower-level dispatcher accepts cancellation for provider-lane and media-queue waits. Its deadline helper links an external signal to a timeout controller, with a default video timeout of 30 minutes. These controls limit individual operations but cannot receive a caller signal omitted by the automatic clip paths.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define cancellation ownership for media that intentionally outlives reply completion. Carry that cancellation authority through writing, queueing, generation and fallback, and define whether a completed clip may still be persisted or attached after cancellation.
• proposed — Consider enforceable per-reply and per-account video budgets, together with a stable job identity for duplicate delivery or recovery. Queue serialization alone should not be treated as a spending limit or an idempotency guarantee.

Pre-merge checks: 7 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check		The title describes the changes and uses the Conventional Commits prefix, but it is 86 characters, exceeds the 80-character limit, and uses a capitalized non-imperative summary.	Use a lowercase imperative summary under 80 characters, such as "feat(video): add generated videos for conversation and roleplay".
Localized Ui Text		The standing failure remains. The PR adds hard-coded user-facing text in both conversation command option objects: label: "Videos" and description: "Let characters send short video messages." at `…	Remove the new label and description values from both video command option objects. Keep required localization keys and resolve both values with localizeUi when rendering.

Passed checks: 7 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description includes the required linked issue, rationale, change summary, validation results, manual verification notes, documentation impact, and UI evidence. It also discloses skipped UI checks…
Linked Issues check		Issue #7859 requires opt-in Conversation video commands, recent-context prompts, identity filing, Roleplay Illustrator modes, first-frame and avatar-reference settings, Clip Director support, re-runs,…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #7859. Production changes support Conversation and Roleplay generated videos. Documentation and regression fixtures support the feature. The follow-up fixes address avata…
Theme Colours Only		No changed client UI code introduces a hard-coded palette colour. The PR changes four scoped client files. The added UI classes in ChatSettingsDrawer.tsx and ChatSetupWizard.tsx use theme tokens s…
Server Logs Via Pino		The pull-request diff adds no console.log, console.warn, console.error, console.info, or console.debug calls under packages/server/src. The changed server files in the head revision also c…
No Changelog Edits Outside Releases		The pull request does not change any CHANGELOG.md file. It also does not change the root package.json version.
Existing Tests Not Weakened		No pre-existing regression assertion was deleted, skipped, or loosened. The PR adds four regression files and 13 new assertions in prompt.regression.ts. The only removed assertion line is replaced i…

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The description includes the required linked issue, rationale, change summary, validation results, manual verification notes, documentation impact, and UI evidence. It also discloses skipped UI checks and known unrelated regression failures.

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Issue #7859 requires opt-in Conversation video commands, recent-context prompts, identity filing, Roleplay Illustrator modes, first-frame and avatar-reference settings, Clip Director support, re-runs, picture fallback, instruction-shaped prompts, and saved-clip persistence after attachment failure. The changed runtime, settings, prompt, video-service, and route code implements these requirements. Regression fixtures cover the Conversation and Roleplay paths, prompt formats, identity handling, unavailable connections, and attachment failure. Video limits remain outside this issue under #7545 item 7.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

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The changes stay within issue #7859. Production changes support Conversation and Roleplay generated videos. Documentation and regression fixtures support the feature. The follow-up fixes address avatar selection, command localization, gallery setting-line behavior, and test cleanup. No unrelated production feature or deferred video limit is included.

Full details: Theme Colours Only

Explanation

No changed client UI code introduces a hard-coded palette colour. The PR changes four scoped client files. The added UI classes in ChatSettingsDrawer.tsx and ChatSetupWizard.tsx use theme tokens such as var(--foreground), var(--muted-foreground), var(--border), and var(--background). SettingsPanel.tsx adds only a prompt-template key, and use-generate.ts adds event handling without colour values. The diff contains no added named Tailwind palette utilities, hex colours, or rgb()/hsl() literals.

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No pre-existing regression assertion was deleted, skipped, or loosened. The PR adds four regression files and 13 new assertions in prompt.regression.ts. The only removed assertion line is replaced in scripts/regressions/character-identity.regression.ts:126-130 with a more specific check for retryIllustratorClipCast, identitySource === "character", and chatCharacters.push(), matching the refactored implementation in packages/server/src/routes/generate/retry-agents-route.ts. No e2e/ files changed.

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The standing failure remains. The PR adds hard-coded user-facing text in both conversation command option objects: label: "Videos" and description: "Let characters send short video messages." at ChatSettingsDrawer.tsx:627-631 and ChatSetupWizard.tsx:193-197. The render paths use localization keys, and both keys exist in en.json:7627-7628, but the option objects still contain English UI values.

Resolution

Remove the new label and description values from both video command option objects. Keep required localization keys and resolve both values with localizeUi when rendering.

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Re-running regression tests locally. Should be about ~20 mins.

Note: limits and throttles to the video generation are coming in the next PR. Will be submitted after this passes coderabbit.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/client/src/components/chat/ChatSettingsDrawer.tsx:
- Around line 625-626: Localize the new Videos command text by adding semantic
keys to the English locale and updating the Chat Settings command definition to
render both the label and description through localizeUi. Preserve the existing
wording via the new locale entries and follow the surrounding localization key
conventions.

Review comments at @packages/client/src/components/chat/ChatSetupWizard.tsx:
- Line 189: Update the video command entry in ChatSetupWizard to use semantic
localization keys for its label and description, add the corresponding English
entries to the locale definitions, and render both values through localizeUi so
the Commands list respects the selected language.

Review comments at @packages/server/src/routes/generate/retry-agents-route.ts:
- Around line 3738-3751: Propagate the retry abort signal through all
clip-generation paths: pass signal to createRoleplayClipTools,
animateGalleryImage, and both generateRoleplayClip call sites. Extend
generateRoleplayClip to accept an optional AbortSignal and forward it to
generateAndSaveChatVideo, preserving cancellation through avatar and no-picture
generation.

Review comments at @packages/server/src/services/video/chat-video-generation.ts:
- Around line 231-246: Extend generateRoleplayClip’s args with an optional
signal?: AbortSignal and forward it to generateAndSaveChatVideo alongside the
existing queue and debugMode options. Update both retry and fresh-reply callers
to pass the route’s abort signal through to generateRoleplayClip.

Review comments at @packages/server/src/services/video/roleplay-clip-writer.ts:
- Around line 23-34: Remove the private buildRoleplayVideoSettingLine
implementation from gallery.routes.ts, import the exported
buildRoleplayVideoSettingLine from roleplay-clip-writer.ts, and update the
Gallery Animate usage to call the shared function so it matches the Illustrator
clip path.

Review comments at
@packages/server/src/services/video/roleplay-illustrator-clips.ts:
- Around line 84-91: Update the index and base64 selection in the roleplay
avatar-building logic so a named person not found in cast.referenceNames does
not fall back to referenceImages[0]. Preserve index 0 when no name is provided,
but only read the image when the findIndex result is nonnegative; otherwise
return avatar: null for the existing generateRoleplayClip handling.

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• docs/conversation/selfies.md
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• packages/client/src/components/chat/ChatSettingsDrawer.tsx
• packages/client/src/components/chat/ChatSetupWizard.tsx
• packages/client/src/components/panels/SettingsPanel.tsx
• packages/client/src/hooks/use-generate.ts
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• packages/server/src/routes/gallery.routes.ts
• packages/server/src/routes/generate.routes.ts
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• packages/server/src/services/generation/conversation-command-runtime.ts
• packages/server/src/services/generation/conversation-video-runtime.ts
• packages/server/src/services/generation/illustrator-manual-prompt-generation.ts
• packages/server/src/services/generation/image-prompt-instructions.ts
• packages/server/src/services/prompt-overrides/index.ts
• packages/server/src/services/prompt-overrides/registry.ts
• packages/server/src/services/prompt-overrides/registry/conversation.ts
• packages/server/src/services/prompt-overrides/registry/roleplay.ts
• packages/server/src/services/video/appearance-reference.ts
• packages/server/src/services/video/chat-video-generation.ts
• packages/server/src/services/video/roleplay-clip-writer.ts
• packages/server/src/services/video/roleplay-illustrator-clips.ts
• packages/server/src/services/video/roleplay-video-direction.ts
• packages/shared/src/types/chat-preset.ts
• packages/shared/src/types/chat.ts
• scripts/regressions/agent-generated-videos.regression.ts
• scripts/regressions/character-identity.regression.ts
• scripts/regressions/fixtures/roleplay-video-harness.ts
• scripts/regressions/prompt.regression.ts
• scripts/regressions/roleplay-clip-first-frame.regression.ts

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[SpicyMarinara]

Hi James, thanks for this. The server side is careful, and the opt-in defaults hold up. A few things before it can go into the release:

1. Let's land this together with #7863, not on its own. By itself, nothing limits automatic clips (generate.routes.ts:14655-14682 starts one for every [video]), and the Conversation composer stays locked for the whole render because the client never handles video_started. #7863 fixes both, and its branch already contains this one.

2. Avatar first frame misses short names. roleplay-illustrator-clips.ts:85-86 compares the Illustrator's raw name with cast.referenceNames, which always holds the full card name. So 'Lena' never matches 'Dr. Lena Kowalski', and the clip throws after the Clip Director call has already been paid for. Could you pick the avatar through the resolver's nickname matching (for example, resolve [names[0]] on its own with includeReferenceImages: true and use that image), and add a regression with a multi-word card name?

3. Stop doesn't reach the clips. A fresh reply doesn't abort when the browser disconnects (generate-route-utils.ts:465 only does that for impersonate), so agentSignal only fires when the user presses Stop. Could you pass agentSignal to createRoleplayClipTools (generate.routes.ts:4687), animateGalleryImage (:14222), generateRoleplayClip (add a signal at chat-video-generation.ts:231 and forward it) and generateConversationVideo (conversation-video-runtime.ts:603)? The re-run could pass its own abortController.signal (retry-agents-route.ts:3739/3792/4242). Checking it up to the moment the provider request goes out (queue wait, Clip Director call, first frame) is enough. If you'd rather keep the current behaviour, please leave a ponytail: comment at generateRoleplayClip that says so and names the upgrade path.

Thanks!

[SpicyMarinara]

Hi @JamesMowery, thank you so much for these. Generated Videos and the run interval are features people will love.

We're cutting the next release right now, and the review notes on #7860 and #7863 still need a few fixes:

• the avatar first frame with short names;
• Stop reaching queued clips;
• the [illustrate] clips skipping the interval;
• the UI test the new input trips.

We'd rather not rush them or hold the release, so I'm closing both PRs for now. That's no reflection on the work.

Once the new version is out, please reopen these PRs (or open fresh ones against staging) with those fixes, and we'll review them first thing for the following release. Your branches stay as they are, so nothing is lost. The Marinara-Agents README follow-up (Pasta-Devs/Marinara-Agents#1492) can come back with them.

Thanks again for all the video work!