Use whenever the user pastes a public video URL or asks for a visual, animation, movement, music, transcript, or shot-by-shot breakdown. A user-provided public URL is treated as authorized. Download it, ask Gemini for the requested analysis, then return video_id. Use ask_video with that video_id for every follow-up question; do not re-download it.

Ask any new question, request a different level of detail, or ask Gemini to inspect a specific timestamp in a previously analyzed video. Use this instead of downloading or uploading the video again.

Immediately delete the uploaded Gemini file and remove the local session record when the user is finished asking follow-up questions.

Download a user-provided public video to Video Intelligence's private local downloads folder. Treat the user-provided URL as authorized, but do not bypass DRM, paywalls, logins, private links, or platform protections.

Check whether the local video-analysis server is configured before attempting a download or Gemini analysis.