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Resolve Conform

by samuelgursky in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp

Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Resolve Conform

skills CLI
$ npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill resolve-conform -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp resolve-conform --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/resolve-conform .claude/skills/resolve-conform && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
resolve-conform
GitHub stars
3.4k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
987 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP.

  • Works in 2 steps: Advanced server, no Resolve needed —… → Live server — open the target project…
  • Tasks that involve MCP servers
  • SKILL.md covers No Resolve? The work does not…, Two servers, What this build cannot do… and Live conform essentials, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Resolve Conform is an agent skill from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp. Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when importing/relinking editorial, checking a conform against a reference, repairing reversed/retimed subclips, tracing grades across a re-conform, building relink plans, or QCing a conformed timeline frame-by-frame — live in a running Resolve OR offline against .drt/.drp files and the project DB. Routes to the live conform tools, the offline conform QC engine, and the online-editor craft skill.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering MCP servers. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: MCP server integration for DaVinci Resolve Studio. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve MCP servers

Example prompts

  • “/resolve-conform”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Advanced server, no Resolve needed — color_trace plan with
  2. Live server — open the target project and timeline, then

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 94c7a88. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

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

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

Context cost

Resolve Conform loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 123 tokens; SKILL.md has 987 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~123
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp at commit 94c7a88, republished under its MIT licence (© samuelgursky). 987 words, ~2,127 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/resolve-conform/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
resolve-conform
description
Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Apply when importing/relinking editorial, checking a conform against a reference, repairing reversed/retimed subclips, tracing grades across a re-conform, building relink plans, or QCing a conformed timeline frame-by-frame — live in a running Resolve OR offline against .drt/.drp files and the project DB. Routes to the live conform tools, the offline conform QC engine, and the online-editor craft skill.

Resolve Conform / Interchange

Bridges online-editing / finishing craft to this repo's tools.

  • Craft / finishing — the global online-editor skill (conform, relink, finishing philosophy in Resolve and Flame). Use for how a finishing editor thinks, not tool mechanics.
  • Live tool mechanics — docs/kernels/timeline-conform-interchange-kernel.md (the timeline conform/interchange boundary).
  • Offline conform engine — resolve-advanced/README.md → conform, color_trace, offline_ref, editorial, drt, project_db.

No Resolve? The work does not have to stop

timeline author_offline writes an importable timeline (drt / otio / edl) from a file-path clip plan without any connection, and every not-connected error now carries an offline_alternative block pointing at it.

Say plainly what happened: the live operation failed and a file was written — the timeline is not in a project until someone imports it. Read the warnings back too. media_tc_origin_assumed is the one that matters: OTIO source frames are timecode-absolute, and an event without media_start_tc_frame imports as an empty timeline with no error at all.

Default to drt (Resolve-native, project version 17 / Resolve 21.0 — older builds need drt downgrade). Pick otio when the plan carries retimes; a .drt flattens them.

Two servers

JobServerTools
Import / relink / compare a running conformdavinci-resolve (Python, live)timeline (conform actions), media_pool (safe_relink, safe_import_sequence)
Conform QC math, reverse-clip repair, lineage, grade tracing, .drt/.drp/DB edits with no Resolve opendavinci-resolve-advanced (Node)conform, color_trace, offline_ref, editorial, drt, project_db

What this build cannot do (check before you offer it)

The scripting API changes per patch release, so "Resolve 21" is not a usable label. Read resolve_control get_version → build.unavailable_on_this_build before offering a gated surface; check_version_support asks about one named symbol. Gated on the relink/media side this domain leans on:

SurfaceNeedsIf absent
MediaPoolItem.LinkProxyMedia17.0No script-side proxy attach
MediaPoolItem.LinkFullResolutionMedia20.0Cannot swap proxies back to full-res from a script
MediaPoolItem.ReplaceClipPreserveSubClip20.0Replacing a clip loses sub-clip boundaries; relink by path instead
MediaPoolItem.MonitorGrowingFile20.0No growing-file support during ingest
MediaPoolItem.GetTimeline21.0.4Cannot ask a clip which timelines use it; walk timelines and collect their items instead

An empty unavailable_on_this_build means nothing recorded is missing, not that everything exists — most of the API has never been version-bisected. A symbol with no gate returns unknown, which means probe it. Probe with name in dir(obj), never bare hasattr: on a Resolve object hasattr returns True for every name, real or invented, so it can only say yes.

The offline conform / drt / project_db routes are not gated this way — they operate on files, so a missing live surface is a reason to reach for them, not a dead end.

Live conform essentials

  • Inspect before touching: probe_timeline_structure, detect_gaps_overlaps, source_range_report, conform_boundary_report.
  • Interchange: export_timeline_checked / import_timeline_checked (temp-guarded). drt is the only lossless project-native round-trip; EDL/FCPXML drop Resolve-specific relationships.
  • XML import via the scripting API goes offline (missing-media/generators abort the import). Use import_timeline_checked with media sanitize (FCP7/FCPXML) so the API imports with links intact, then exact-path relink. A running MCP server must be restarted to pick up the sanitize fix.
  • Missing media: detect_missing_media → build_relink_plan (read-only, bounded; skips broad scans when the source volume is unmounted) → execute only via media_pool.safe_relink with approved paths.

Offline conform engine (conform actions)

The offline engine QCs a conform with frame-oracle math, not filename matching — it catches a clip that relinked to the wrong-but-similarly-named source. It also does:

  • Reverse/retimed subclip repair — reversed source_start = masterFrames − 1 − endoffset (live-validated); DB-level repair.
  • Sequence lineage store + diff — hashed timeline snapshots, diff, rollback.
  • Per-cut frame QC — oracle-frame vs reference-render compare (scale-corrected; red/yellow/cyan verdicts), the standard finishing QC. Each cut is judged at the first frame CLEAR of its transition windows (inside one the reference is a blend, or black for a fade); Resolve's own FCP7 export ingests with -1 edges resolved to junctions and its absent pproTicksIn tolerated (<in> is the source frame).
  • Reference-render compare — build a REF_OFFLINE verdict when a burn-in-free reference exists.
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Carrying grades across a re-conform

Native ColorTrace keys on timecode/name/order inside one project and gives up on renames, reorders, retimes and stringouts. The MCP path is two calls:

  1. Advanced server, no Resolve needed — color_trace plan with sourceProjectName/sourceTimeline (graded) and targetProjectName/targetTimeline (the new cut), plus emitDir under the system temp dir. Projects in a Postgres / network / cloud library have no Project.db to open: export each with project_manager safe_project_export (allow_non_mcp_name: true, works without loading the project) and pass sourceDrp / targetDrp instead. It matches on media identity (pool id / file path / reel / file name + source-range overlap — a stringout's graded sections resolve by overlap) and only falls back to names. Read summary.byMethod, ambiguous, and each match's confidence; it writes a lossless .drx per graded match and returns planPath.
  2. Live server — open the target project and timeline, then timeline_item_color apply_trace_plan with plan_path and dry_run: true to get the resolution table (every entry is apply or skip + reason). Re-call without dry_run for a confirm_token, then with it to apply. version_name adds a local version per clip first so the previous grade survives; the timeline is archived to the Archive bin before anything is replaced.

Say plainly what did not resolve: live_item_not_found, ambiguous_live_item and below_min_confidence entries are reported, never guessed. For a single look, the resolve-color skill's drx grade_transfer is the lighter tool. For "what changed between cuts," use editorial.turnover_changelist (see resolve-edit).

Offline-reference clips

Offline-ref clips have no scripting API but do live inside .drp/.drt as <OfflineClip> entries — patch via offline_ref (plain-XML/DB path), not the live server.

Gotchas that bite

  • .drt version. For DaVinci Resolve 19.1.3, set DbPrjVer 17 → 16 when authoring a .drt or the import can fail.
  • project_db patches require the project CLOSED in Resolve plus iConfirmProjectClosed:true; every write auto-backs-up and read-back verifies. Resolve caches open projects in memory — after patching, fully QUIT and relaunch Resolve or the change is invisible.
  • AAF is an honest refuse in editorial.parse_interchange, not a silent empty result.
  • Optional native deps gate some actions (better-sqlite3 for lineage/reverse/DB, sharp/ffmpeg for frame compare) — call the advanced capabilities tool.

Source-media safety (AGENTS.md)

Relink plans are read-only until you execute them; never relink, replace, or create derivatives of source media without explicit approval. Preserve the chain from camera original to final delivery.

© samuelgursky, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/resolve-conform of samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 94c7a88

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Questions about Resolve Conform

What does Resolve Conform do?

Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Resolve Conform is an agent skill from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp. Conforming, relinking, and finishing prep in the DaVinci Resolve MCP.

When should I use Resolve Conform?

Resolve Conform fits situations like: tasks that involve MCP servers.

How do I install Resolve Conform in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill resolve-conform -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/resolve-conform in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp) into .claude/skills/resolve-conform in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Resolve Conform in Codex?

Run `npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill resolve-conform -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/resolve-conform in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp) into .agents/skills/resolve-conform in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Resolve Conform in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill resolve-conform -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/resolve-conform, .gemini/skills/resolve-conform, .github/skills/resolve-conform and .opencode/skills/resolve-conform in your project.

What does Resolve Conform need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Resolve Conform is instructions for the agent only.

Does Resolve Conform access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Resolve Conform safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Resolve Conform use?

Resolve Conform is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Resolve Conform use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Resolve Conform?

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Who maintains Resolve Conform?

samuelgursky (a GitHub user) maintains it in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp, which has 3,448 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.