tesseract-agent 0.12.2 → 0.12.3

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  1. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/3d-product-shots/SKILL.md +6 -6
  2. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/audio-and-voice/SKILL.md +3 -0
  3. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/canvas-design/scripts/design_check.mjs +6 -0
  4. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/chart-design/scripts/design_check.mjs +6 -0
  5. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/comic-maker/SKILL.md +5 -9
  6. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/diagram-design/scripts/design_check.mjs +6 -0
  7. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/interactive-ui/scripts/design_check.mjs +6 -0
  8. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/makers/SKILL.md +16 -3
  9. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/music-videos/SKILL.md +3 -4
  10. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/music-videos/references/ai-music-video.md +3 -3
  11. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/product-ads/SKILL.md +32 -17
  12. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/product-videos/references/assembly-and-delivery.md +2 -2
  13. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/promo-videos/SKILL.md +6 -7
  14. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/promo-videos/references/review-rubric.md +1 -1
  15. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/short-form-video/SKILL.md +8 -11
  16. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/short-form-video/references/formats-and-trends.md +1 -1
  17. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/short-form-video/references/memes.md +6 -9
  18. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/tesseract-help/SKILL.md +15 -2
  19. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/tesseract-help/references/app-control-map.md +9 -1
  20. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/tesseract-help/references/troubleshooting.md +9 -1
  21. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/thumbnails/SKILL.md +6 -5
  22. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/tutorials/SKILL.md +8 -2
  23. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-editing/SKILL.md +28 -37
  24. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-editing/references/recipes.md +7 -11
  25. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-generation/SKILL.md +26 -40
  26. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-generation/references/directing.md +52 -21
  27. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-generation/references/long-video.md +44 -7
  28. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-generation/references/presenter-video.md +10 -16
  29. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-generation/references/prompting.md +14 -10
  30. package/dist-bundle/builtin-skills/video-generation/references/series.md +44 -23
  31. package/dist-bundle/catalog-vectors/embeddinggemma-300m-q4@ort1.23.2.bin +0 -0
  32. package/dist-bundle/cli.js +24482 -17322
  33. package/dist-bundle/mesh-core/package.json +1 -1
  34. package/dist-bundle/office-page.css +1 -1
  35. package/dist-bundle/office-page.js +970 -970
  36. package/dist-bundle/office.js +1908 -803
  37. package/dist-bundle/pdf.js +141 -63
  38. package/dist-bundle/serpapi-mcp.js +15204 -9981
  39. package/package.json +1 -1
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  name: tesseract-help
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- description: Answer questions about Tesseract itself and operate the app for the person — what it and you can do (every skill and feature) and how, settings and appearance, engines, models and run modes, API keys, skills, plugins and MCP connectors, machines, OS permissions, updates, troubleshooting a stuck or broken app, and filing a bug report. Use whenever the question or request is about the Tesseract app rather than the person's own work, and whenever someone asks what you can do, what you are capable of or what they can use you for. Being shown around the app on screen — the guided tour — is tutorials.
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+ description: Answer questions about Tesseract itself and operate the app for the person — what it and you can do (every skill and feature) and how, settings and appearance, engines, models and run modes, API keys (Tesseract's own for plugins and code too), using Tesseract from claude.ai, ChatGPT or a shell, skills, plugins and MCP connectors, machines, OS permissions, updates, troubleshooting a stuck or broken app, and filing a bug report. Use whenever the question or request is about the Tesseract app rather than the person's own work, and whenever someone asks what you can do, what you are capable of or what they can use you for. Being shown around the app on screen — the guided tour — is tutorials.
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+ - **Tesseract's own API keys** (for a script or the person's own code)
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  - Check without seeing: `engines.has_api_key`, `voice.has_provider_key`, `image.list_providers`,
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  | Find or add a skill | `skill_find` first; library: `extensions.search_skills` or `search_marketplace` → **`extensions.marketplace_security`** (show the verdict; do not install a flagged item) → `install_skill` |
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  | Plugin | `search_marketplace {family: "code-plugin"}` → `marketplace_security` → `install_plugin` with an exact version |
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  | MCP connector | `extensions.add_mcp_server` — local `command` + `args`, or remote `url` + `transport`; name secret env vars/headers in `secret_keys`, never their values; the person enters them in Settings → Extensions → Connectors (MCP tab). New conversations get its tools. Pin package versions (no `@latest`), and ask before adding a local command — it runs with the person's permissions. OAuth sign-in for connectors is **not** available yet |
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+ | "Give me an API key" (a script, my own code) | Open `navigation.open_settings {section: "account"}`. Under **API keys** they type a name after where it will be used, press **Make key**, then **Copy**: the key is shown only this once (lost → revoke it and make another). Each key spends this account's allowance and balance, at most its **monthly limit** — the number beside the key, $20 to start; they change it to anything from $0 to $100,000, or empty it for no limit, and it is saved when they leave the field. **Revoke**, then **Revoke it**, stops the key at once. Pictures, clips, long videos and 255 effects can be made with a key; each can be priced first for free |
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+ | "Use Tesseract from claude.ai" | In claude.ai: **Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector**. Name `Tesseract`, URL `https://app.tesseract.dev/api/core/tesseract/mcp`, leave the advanced settings empty, **Add**, then **Connect**. A Tesseract page opens: they sign in, check it names Claude and sends them back to claude.ai, and press **Approve**. Then they turn Tesseract on under the chat's tools button and ask for a picture, an effect or a video. On a Team or Enterprise plan an owner adds it once for everyone |
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+ | "Use Tesseract from ChatGPT" | In ChatGPT, developer mode has to be on (**Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings**; a workspace admin may have to allow custom connectors). Then **Create**: name `Tesseract`, the same URL, authentication **OAuth**, tick that they trust it, **Create**, sign in to Tesseract, check it names ChatGPT, **Approve**. In a chat they pick Tesseract from the tools. ChatGPT moves these labels between versions — if one is not there, look for the nearest match. Any other app that connects to MCP servers by URL with sign-in works the same way |
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+ | What a connected app costs, its limit, disconnect it | `navigation.open_settings {section: "account"}` → **Connected apps** (under the API keys): each app with what it spent this month and its **monthly limit** ($20 when connected; $0–$100,000, or empty for none). **Disconnect**, then **Disconnect it**, stops it on its next call. The work runs on Tesseract's servers and is charged to this account as in the app; the person's computer need not be on |
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+ | Make pictures or video from a terminal, a script or another local app | `tesseract-agent media list`, then `tesseract-agent media <tool> --json '…'` (signed in once with `tesseract-agent login`); `tesseract-agent mcp serve` gives the same tools to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Codex. On the Tesseract allowance they run, except long videos and scenarios, which ask for their whole price first; a spend on a key of their own asks first — with its price, or "price not known in advance" (ElevenLabs, HeyGen, a picture on their own OpenAI or Google key, transcription on their Google key, an upscale on their fal.ai key whose clip size cannot be read) — and is made only with `--yes` (with `--max-usd` at the price they agreed) |
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  | Machines, copying projects, mirroring | `hosts.computers`, `hosts.rename`, `hosts.copy_project`, `hosts.start_mirroring` |
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  | Open, start, rename, fork or close a conversation; move one to another framework or model | `conversations.list` (session ids, which one is yours) → `conversations.*` |
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+ | "Make PDFs / videos / … open in Tesseract", Open With, a file's icon or picture | Which app opens a file type is the person's choice, not yours. Open `navigation.open_settings {section: "general"}` and point them to **This computer → Files that open in Tesseract → Choose…**: documents and PDFs, video, audio and pictures, and everything else, each a tick box that opens into its types; Save, and an unticked type goes back to the app it had. On Windows the dialog's **Open Windows Settings** opens Default apps on Tesseract, where they choose. Tesseract's own files (presentations, images, drawings, videos, motion, comics) always open in it and show a picture of what is inside in Finder, Explorer and Linux file managers; every other type it opens lists it in Open With (code and plain text there only). A folder: Open With in Finder, drop it on the Dock icon, "Open in Tesseract" in Explorer, or on Linux `tesseract-desktop <folder>` |
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  | The app looks broken after a theme | `navigation.set_safe_mode {on: true}` (strips every extension's theming), then `extensions.*` to remove the pack |
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- | A piece of 30 s to several minutes that must hold together | keyframes first — [references/long-video.md](references/long-video.md) | reference sheet → keyframe per beat → each clip from keyframe N to N+1; the way to keep a face, outfit and light the same |
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  `references/brief-and-intake.md` is adapted from Hermes Agent's `kanban-video-orchestrator`