# local-agent-senses

## English

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Local vision, video and speech tools for text-only LLM agents. The default
backend is Ollama on your own machine; media is not uploaded unless you
explicitly configure an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

中文说明见 [README.zh-CN.md](README.zh-CN.md)。

## 中文

中文版本请见 [README.zh-CN.md](README.zh-CN.md)。

## Features

- Image understanding and verbatim OCR/transcription.
- PDF page rasterization for document OCR/analysis (poppler `pdftoppm`).
- Video sampling for scenes, contact sheets, time windows and subtitles.
- Optional FunASR speech-to-text with timestamps.
- Windows screen and clipboard capture, plus platform adapters.
- CLI for shell-based agents and MCP tools for Codex, Claude Desktop, Cursor,
  Cline and other MCP clients.
- SSRF checks, download limits, media duration limits and no disk cache by
  default.

## Quick start

Requirements: Python 3.10+, Ollama, and ffmpeg. Speech, video-site URL
resolution, and PDF rasterization (poppler-utils `pdftoppm`) are optional
extras.

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Scheme0/local-agent-senses.git
cd local-agent-senses
ollama pull haervwe/GLM-4.6V-Flash-9B
ollama pull qwen3.5:4b
python vision.py --check
python vision.py photo.png --prompt "Describe this image"
python vision.py document.png --mode text --transcribe
python vision.py paper.pdf --transcribe
python vision.py clip.mp4 --mode scenes --prompt "List each scene"
```

Install console commands with `pip install .`:

```bash
vision --check
vision-mcp
vision-adapters --all
```

Run `vision --doctor` for an offline dependency report. Add `--json` for
machine-readable diagnostics. Service admission is limited by
`VISION_MAX_CONCURRENCY` and `VISION_SERVICE_TIMEOUT`.

The adapter generator is implemented by `scripts/generate_adapters.py` and can
also be invoked directly when integrating with another agent.

Optional dependencies:

```bash
pip install .[speech]
pip install .[ytdlp]
pip install .[test]
```

## MCP

Run the stdio server with:

```bash
python extras/mcp_server.py
```

Register it in Codex, for example:

```bash
codex mcp add vision -- python /absolute/path/extras/mcp_server.py
```

Available tools are `describe_image`, `transcribe`, `analyze_video`,
`transcribe_audio`, `vision_status` and `vision_check`.

Service results use a JSON envelope with `text`, `kind`, `mode`, `metadata` and
`warnings`. Expected failures use `{ "code": ..., "message": ... }`, which
lets MCP clients distinguish invalid input from backend or media failures.

MCP validates image count, prompt size, frame count and FPS before invoking the
CLI. The server uses an in-memory result cache. Disk caching is **disabled by
default** because results may contain screenshots, transcripts or private
documents. Enable it only when appropriate:

```bash
set VISION_MCP_CACHE=1       # Windows
export VISION_MCP_CACHE=1    # Linux/macOS
```

## Remote media and security

HTTP and HTTPS media URLs are treated as untrusted input. Local, private,
loopback, link-local, multicast, cloud-metadata and NAT64 addresses are
blocked, and redirects are checked again. By default, remote media is
downloaded through the checked Python path before ffmpeg sees it. This avoids
the DNS re-resolution gap that can occur when ffmpeg opens a URL directly.

> **DNS rebinding is only mitigated, not eliminated.** The stdlib downloader
> resolves DNS and connects in a single step, so a hostile hostname can in
> principle be re-resolved between the check and the connect. For strict SSRF
> requirements, put the tool behind an egress proxy / allowlist.

Direct ffmpeg URL streaming is available only as an explicit compatibility
option (off by default) and should be used only with trusted URLs:

```bash
set VISION_DIRECT_URL_STREAM=1       # Windows
export VISION_DIRECT_URL_STREAM=1    # Linux/macOS
```

Remote OpenAI-compatible endpoints (`api_base`) must use `https://` unless
they point at localhost (`http://localhost` / `http://127.0.0.1`). Plain HTTP
against a remote host is rejected, as are URLs without a scheme or with
embedded credentials.

Set limits in `vision-config.json` or with environment variables:

| Setting | Default | Purpose |
|---|---:|---|
| `VISION_MAX_IMAGE_MB` | 20 | Image size cap |
| `VISION_MAX_STDIN_MB` | 2000 | Piped stdin media cap |
| `VISION_MAX_PDF_PAGES` | 50 | PDF page cap (0 = system hard ceiling of 200) |
| `VISION_PDF_DPI` | 150 | PDF rasterization DPI |
| `VISION_MAX_DOWNLOAD_MB` | 500 | Unknown/remote media cap |
| `VISION_MAX_DURATION_H` | 6 | Audio/video duration cap |
| `VISION_MCP_CACHE` | false | Persist MCP results to disk |
| `VISION_DIRECT_URL_STREAM` | false | Let ffmpeg open remote URLs directly |
| `VISION_SERVICE_QUEUE_TIMEOUT` | 1800 | Seconds to wait in the service queue |
| `VISION_SERVICE_EXECUTION_TIMEOUT` | 1800 | Execution budget for one request |

The video thumbnail candidate count is capped by a fixed internal hard limit
(`MAX_THUMBNAIL_FRAMES`, 1200) that cannot be disabled through configuration.
Downloads and PDF pages also have system hard ceilings (8192 MB and 200 pages)
that apply even when a configured limit is `0`.
Explicitly configured external tool paths (`VISION_FFMPEG`,
`VISION_SPEECH_PYTHON`, `OLLAMA_EXE`, `VISION_PDF_RENDERER`, `VISION_YTDLP`)
must be absolute paths to an existing regular file.

Read [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) before exposing the MCP server to another
machine. Media content is untrusted data; do not follow instructions found in
images, subtitles or model output.

## Configuration

Copy `vision-config.example.json` to `vision-config.json`. Configuration
priority is environment variables, then JSON config, then auto-detection.
Important settings include `text_model`, `quick_model`, `ollama_host`,
`api_base`, `api_key`, `ffmpeg`, `speech_python`, `mcp_cache_dir` and the limits
listed above.

## Limitations

- Video understanding is frame-based rather than end-to-end temporal reasoning.
- OCR accuracy depends on resolution, layout, font and the selected model.
- FunASR is optional and may require a separate environment and model download.
- HEIC, AVIF and other uncommon formats depend on the installed ffmpeg build.
- Configuring a cloud endpoint sends model inputs to that endpoint; local
  sampling and audio processing remain local.

## Development

```bash
python -m pytest tests/ -v
python -m build
```

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md), [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) and
[docs/COMPATIBILITY.md](docs/COMPATIBILITY.md).

## License

MIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) and [THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md](THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md).