Vss MCP Integration

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to connect an AI agent to VSS search
• Add an MCP tool to VSS
• Configure the VSS MCP server / filters
• Run the FastMCP proxy

Example prompts

• “Use the vss-mcp-integration skill to help developers configure and extend the Video Search and Summarization sample app's spec-driven FastMCP proxy…”
• “/vss-mcp-integration”

Requirements

• A Bash shell
• Docker
• A credential in MCP_PROXY_AUTH_TOKEN

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1reads env into Settings;
2. 2loads FILTER_FILE_PATH with load_filter_config();
3. 3fetches the live VSS OpenAPI/Swagger JSON from API_SPEC_URL;
4. 4creates an httpx.AsyncClient(base_url=API_BASE_URL);
5. 5calls FastMCP.from_openapi(...) with

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cdf860c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • bash
  • docker
  • poetry

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use docker, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • MCP_PROXY_AUTH_TOKEN

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Vss MCP Integration loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 568 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~85

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~4.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:61

  cp .env.example .env

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from open-edge-platform/edge-ai-libraries at commit cdf860c, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© open-edge-platform). 568 words, ~1,506 tokens.

name

vss-mcp-integration

description

Helps developers configure and extend the Video Search and Summarization sample app's spec-driven FastMCP proxy for VSS search. Use when the user wants to connect an AI agent to VSS search, add an MCP tool to VSS, configure the VSS MCP server / filters, run the FastMCP proxy, or debug why isn't my MCP tool showing up.

# SKILL_DIR is THIS skill's own directory (shown to you when the skill loads);
# in-repo it is .github/skills/vss-mcp-integration. Works the same if the skill is installed standalone.
SKILL_DIR=".github/skills/vss-mcp-integration"
APP_ROOT="$(bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/vss-bootstrap.sh")"
cd "$APP_ROOT"

cp .env.example .env
docker compose up --build -d

cd sample-applications/video-search-and-summarization/mcp
API_SPEC_URL=http://<VSS_IP>:12345/manager/swagger/json \
API_BASE_URL=http://<VSS_IP>:12345/manager \
FILTER_FILE_PATH="$PWD/search.json" \
poetry run mcp-app

{
  "server_name": "vss_search_mcp",
  "prefix": "vss",
  "apis": {
    "POST /search/query": {
      "type": "tool",
      "name": "run_search_query",
      "description": "Execute an immediate natural-language search."
    }
  }
}

© open-edge-platform, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 13 other files (scripts, references) in sample-applications/video-search-and-summarization/.github/skills/vss-mcp-integration of open-edge-platform/edge-ai-libraries.

• SKILL.md
• BENCHMARK.md
• evals/evals.json
• evals/trigger-evals.json
• example-prompts/01-start-and-connect-claude.md
• example-prompts/02-add-endpoint-as-tool.md
• example-prompts/03-custom-filter-compose-mount.md
• example-prompts/04-debug-missing-tool.md
• example-prompts/05-local-poetry-run.md
• example-prompts/06-upload-endpoint-not-exposed.md
• example-prompts/07-bootstrap-fresh-machine.md
• example-prompts/README.md
• references/mcp-spec-driven.md
• scripts/vss-bootstrap.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cdf860c