cutpilot_finish_video
High-level finishing gate: audit the current project and, only when approved and release-ready, submit a background MP4 export.
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What cutpilot_finish_video does on Cutpilot
AI agents invoke cutpilot_finish_video to trigger actions in Cutpilot. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.
Why cutpilot_finish_video is rated High
This tool triggers a background MP4 export operation, which is an external execution that consumes system resources and produces output files. While it has a gating/audit step, the core action is initiating a rendering/export job. It is not purely destructive (it creates a new file rather than deleting one), not financial, and not a simple read or write — it executes a background media processing pipeline.
From the tool's definition 'submit a background MP4 export' — triggers an external export/rendering operation; 'finishing gate: audit the current project and, only when approved and release-ready' confirms it initiates a background process
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The rule that runs cutpilot_finish_video safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Cutpilot, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For cutpilot_finish_video, this is the rule to start with:
cutpilot_finish_video stays usable, but rate-capped: a runaway agent can't fire it dozens of times a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Cutpilot, apply this rule, and every cutpilot_finish_video call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about cutpilot_finish_video
High-level finishing gate: audit the current project and, only when approved and release-ready, submit a background MP4 export. It is categorised as a Execute tool in the Cutpilot MCP Server, which means it can trigger actions or run processes. Use rate limits and argument validation.
Register the Cutpilot MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cutpilot_finish_video: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Cutpilot. Nothing to install.
cutpilot_finish_video is a Execute tool with high risk. Execute tools should be rate-limited and have argument validation enabled.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the cutpilot_finish_video rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for cutpilot_finish_video. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
cutpilot_finish_video is provided by the Cutpilot MCP server (Hellotravisss/cutpilot). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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