Byted Mediakit Shared

1. mediakit-cli: supports a variety of operations such as audio/video processing, editing, and images, with some capabilities covering both cloud and local modes; 2. mediakit-cli shared: environment checks, initialization config, command structure, authentication config, async task responses, and error handling.

MediaKit Shared Rules

This skill explains how to operate on media resources via mediakit-cli, and the shared rules and caveats that apply to every call.

Prerequisites

Install the CLI

Before first use, confirm the CLI is installed:

bash

# Install
npm install -g @volcengine/mediakit-cli

# Verify
mediakit-cli --version

Authentication check

Priority: environment variables > config file (path: ~/.mediakit/config.json).

Field reference

• Environment variables / config file: MEDIAKIT_API_KEY, MEDIAKIT_ENDPOINT, MEDIAKIT_SURFACE, MEDIAKIT_RUNTIME

Variable	Required	Description
MEDIAKIT_API_KEY	Required (cloud mode)	API authentication token
MEDIAKIT_ENDPOINT	Optional	API endpoint
MEDIAKIT_SURFACE	Optional	Request-source Header x-surface. Defaults to cli. Skill should set skill, Plugin should set plugin; CLI reports them as cli/skill or cli/plugin.
MEDIAKIT_RUNTIME	Optional	Request-source Header x-runtime. Set to host name such as claude / arkclaw; falls back to environment probing or unknown when not configured.

When any required field is missing, stop execution and output the full list of missing items together with fix suggestions.

Cloud calls automatically carry x-surface / x-runtime. Header priority: environment variables > ~/.mediakit/config.json > defaults / environment probing. When this Skill/Plugin invokes cloud capabilities through mediakit-cli, the runtime should inject MEDIAKIT_SURFACE=skill|plugin and MEDIAKIT_RUNTIME=<host>. The CLI keeps the original product prefix and reports x-surface=cli/skill or x-surface=cli/plugin. If no explicit configuration is provided, the CLI defaults to x-surface=cli; x-runtime falls back to IDENTITY_NAME / OPENCLAW_SERVICE_MARKER environment probing, and finally to unknown.

Source-reporting constraints

• When a Skill invokes mediakit-cli, it must explicitly set MEDIAKIT_SURFACE=skill and must not rely on the user's pre-existing environment variables.
• When a Plugin invokes mediakit-cli, it must explicitly set MEDIAKIT_SURFACE=plugin and must not reuse the Skill value.
• The host runtime identifier should also be explicitly set via MEDIAKIT_RUNTIME=<host>; if unset, the CLI falls back to environment probing or unknown.

bash

MEDIAKIT_SURFACE=skill MEDIAKIT_RUNTIME=<runtime> mediakit-cli editing add-image-to-video

MEDIAKIT_SURFACE=plugin MEDIAKIT_RUNTIME=<runtime> mediakit-cli editing add-image-to-video

CLI usage

Initialization

Run the init wizard before first use:

bash

mediakit-cli init

For non-interactive initialization (Agents), pass the request-source and runtime configuration explicitly:

bash

mediakit-cli init --mode cloud-first --api-key <key> --runtime <runtime> --surface cli --yes
mediakit-cli init --mode local-first --api-key <key> --endpoint <url> --output-path ~/mediakit-output --runtime <runtime> --surface cli --credential-store config --yes

Common commands after initialization:

bash

# Show current configuration
mediakit-cli config show

# Switch the default mode to local-first
mediakit-cli config set mode local-first

# Switch the default mode to cloud-first
mediakit-cli config set mode cloud-first

# Refresh environment checks and view dependency status
mediakit-cli doctor

Command structure

MediaKit CLI consistently uses the domain + tool invocation shape:

bash

mediakit-cli {domain} {tool} [flags]

Common help commands:

bash

# List all domains
mediakit-cli --domains

# List tools in a given domain
mediakit-cli {domain} --help

# Show parameters of a specific tool
mediakit-cli {domain} {tool} --help

# Dynamically discover tool capability and return structure
mediakit-cli {domain} {tool} --schema
mediakit-cli --local {domain} {tool} --schema

Domains currently covered by this product: editing, video.

Schema discovery

Every capability command supports --schema, used by Agents to dynamically read tool capabilities. Required business parameters are not enforced when --schema is used.

The returned structure contains:

• name: tool name in snake_case, e.g. add_image_to_video
• description: tool description, automatically including Mode and Async information
• input_schema: input parameter JSON Schema
• output_schema: return structure for the current execution mode

Output disambiguation rules:

• By default the return surface is resolved against the global mode configuration
• --local ... --schema outputs the local-mode return surface; local mode returns the final result fields directly
• Cloud async tools output task_id / request_id, and describe the completed-state result of query-task under final_result
• query-task is cloud only; its schema describes task status plus the completed-state result

Examples:

bash

mediakit-cli editing trim-video --schema
mediakit-cli --local editing trim-video --schema

Per-invocation mode override

In addition to config set mode for setting the default mode, you can override the mode for a single command only:

bash

mediakit-cli --local editing add-image-to-video

mediakit-cli --cloud editing add-image-to-video

Additional rules:

• --local / --cloud only affect the current command and do not modify the global config.mode
• --local and --cloud are mutually exclusive and cannot be passed together

Async tasks

When an async media-processing task is accepted successfully, the response contains a task_id field. Use the shared query-task command to poll the result.

bash

mediakit-cli shared query-task --task-id <task_id>

local / cloud constraints

• query-task is a cloud only tool
• local mode does not support query-task
• The current capability set runs primarily in cloud mode; when an explicit declaration is required, prefer --cloud

Cloud-mode media input notes

• When a command runs with --cloud or under the cloud-first strategy, media input parameters (video_url, audio_url, image_url, subtitle_url, sub_image_url, and their corresponding array / object sub-fields) accept http:// / https:// URLs, mediakit://... file_ids, or local file paths
• http:// / https:// URLs and mediakit://... file_ids are submitted as-is; local file paths are first uploaded by the CLI as mediakit://... file_ids and then submitted to the cloud tool
• Parameter descriptions in each tool's reference are sourced from the APIHub/OpenAPI raw field descriptions; even when they show public URLs or HTTP/HTTPS URLs, that only reflects the resource form the cloud API ultimately receives — it does not restrict the CLI's ability to pre-process local paths in cloud mode

Local-mode notes

• Local output directory priority: --output-path > MEDIAKIT_OUTPUT_PATH > config output_path > ~/.mediakit/temp
• When --output-path points to a concrete media filename, it is used as the final output file directly; otherwise the filename is built as {source_name}_{tool_name}.{ext}, with a 6-digit random suffix appended on collision
• When no filename can be extracted from the input URL or path, fall back to {tool_name}-{UnixNano}.{ext}
• Local mode depends on ffmpeg / ffprobe; when missing, the error response includes an install_guide
• Local-mode media processing output must conform to the corresponding interface response schema; internal execution metadata must not be emitted

Error responses

• CLI cloud mode forwards the original error object returned by the API as-is, without extracting message
• CLI local mode returns a structured error: {"error":{"type":"...","code":"...","message":"..."}}
• MCP error_response forwards the original error content as-is; a dict is used directly as the error field value

Idempotency parameter maintenance

Parameter	Purpose	Maintenance guidance
client_token	Explicit idempotency	Reuse the same value on request retries; use a new unique value to force re-execute
callback_args	Passthrough to callback	Maintain together with client_token to ease callback reconciliation and retry tracking

Additional rules:

• client_token must not exceed 64 characters
• callback_args is useful for callback passthrough and reconciliation tracking

Polling strategy

Parameter	Description	Default
poll-interval-seconds	Polling interval	10s
max-poll-attempts	Polling attempts; 0 disables it	0
poll-complete	Block until terminal status	-