gemini_video_generate

Previous value: -"Directory to write the video to (default: $GEMINI_OUTPUT_DIR or cwd)"New value: +"Directory to write the video to (default: $GEMINI_OUTPUT_DIR or ~/Downloads/gemini-mcp)"

Previous value: -"Reference image path(s) for image_to_video / reference_to_video"New value: +"Reference image path(s) for image_to_video / reference_to_video. Local paths must be inside GEMINI_REFERENCE_DIR (else GEMINI_UPLOAD_DIR) when set."

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "Must be true to proceed. Without this, the tool returns a preview.",
-  "type": "boolean"
-}

Added value: +{
+  "description": "ONLY for the two-step confirmation fallback (a client without MCP elicitation). The confirmToken from this same tool's phase-1 \"confirmation-required\" response, passed back ONLY after the user has seen that preview and explicitly approved it in chat — never on the first call, never invented, never reused. Call again with the same arguments. Ignored when the client supports elicitation.",
+  "type": "string"
+}

Previous value: -"http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"New value: +"https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"

Previous value: -"Run in the background and return a job_id immediately instead of the image, so a long (Pro/4K) generation cannot hit the host tools/call timeout (-32001). Poll gemini_get_result with the job_id to fetch the result. PREFER `max_wait_ms` on the hosted connector: it runs where the executor is only guaranteed to stay alive while the request is open, so this option is served there as a bounded wait rather than an immediate hand-off."New value: +"Return a job_id immediately instead of the result, so a long generation cannot hit the host tools/call timeout (-32001); poll gemini_get_result. On the hosted connector prefer max_wait_ms — the executor only lives while a request is open, so async is served there as a bounded wait."

Previous value: -"Opaque idempotency key: a repeat call with the same key returns the recorded result (reused: true) instead of billing a new generation. Set it when retrying after a host timeout (-32001) to avoid a duplicate charge."New value: +"Repeat calls with this key return the recorded result (reused: true) instead of billing a new generation. Set it when retrying after a host timeout (-32001)."

Previous value: -"Reference images as base64 strings or data URIs. Last resort: prefer images_url or images_file_uris, which keep image bytes out of the conversation"New value: +"Reference images as base64 strings or data URIs. Last resort — about 14k tokens per photo; prefer images_url or images_file_uris. The server uploads each one and reports a file_uri under image_inputs: pass that to images_file_uris next time instead of re-sending the bytes."

Previous value: -"Reference stills by Gemini Files API reference (\"files/<id>\", or the full uri) from gemini_upload_file or POST /upload. Upload once, then reference it across as many calls as you like — no bytes are re-sent and none enter the conversation. Files are retained ~48h, after which the reference stops resolving."New value: +"Reference stills as Files API references (\"files/<id>\" or the full uri) from gemini_upload_file. Upload once and reuse across calls with no bytes in the conversation; retained ~48h, after which the reference stops resolving."

Previous value: -"Reference stills as public https URLs — the SERVER downloads them, so no image bytes travel through the conversation. Preferred over images_base64, which costs ~14k tokens per photo and breaks if a file read was truncated. Max 15MB each; must be a directly-linked image (Content-Type image/*)."New value: +"Reference stills as public https URLs — the server downloads them, so no image bytes cross the conversation. Preferred over images_base64, which costs ~14k tokens per photo. Max 15MB each, Content-Type image/*."

Previous value: -"Wait up to this many ms for the result; if generation is still running when the budget expires, return { job_id, status: \"running\" } immediately instead (poll gemini_get_result). Keeps fast results in-band while a slow batch can never trip the host tools/call timeout (-32001) — e.g. 20000 for multi-image sets. Ignored when async is set."New value: +"Wait up to this many ms in-band, then hand back { job_id, status: \"running\" } to poll with gemini_get_result (e.g. 20000 for multi-image sets). Keeps fast results inline and slow ones off the host timeout (-32001). Ignored when async is set."

Previous value: -"Model id override (default: gemini-omni-flash-preview)"New value: +"Model id override (default: gemini-omni-1.1-flash)"

Previous value: -"Shape of the output, in plain terms: \"landscape\" (wide, 16:9), \"portrait\" (tall, 9:16) or \"square\" (1:1). Use this for a request phrased as landscape/portrait/vertical/horizontal. For any other proportion — 35mm photo (3:2), print (4:3), social (4:5), cinematic (21:9) — name it with aspect_ratio instead, which overrides this when both are given."New value: +"Output shape in plain terms: landscape (16:9), portrait (9:16) or square (1:1). For any other proportion — 3:2, 4:3, 4:5, 21:9 — use aspect_ratio, which wins if both are given."

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Output resolution (default 720p). Video is billed per output token, so 360p costs roughly a third of 720p — use it for drafts",
+  "enum": [
+    "360p",
+    "720p",
+    "1080p",
+    "4k"
+  ],
+  "type": "string"
+}

Previous value: -"text_to_video (default), image_to_video / reference_to_video (need image input), or edit (needs previous_interaction_id)"New value: +"text_to_video (default), image_to_video / reference_to_video (need image input), or edit / extend (need previous_interaction_id)"

Previous value: -[
-  "text_to_video",
-  "image_to_video",
-  "reference_to_video",
-  "edit"
-]New value: +[
+  "text_to_video",
+  "image_to_video",
+  "reference_to_video",
+  "edit",
+  "extend"
+]

Previous value: -"Upstream request timeout in ms for this call (default: $GEMINI_TIMEOUT_MS, else 60000 — or 120000 when image_size is 4K, which routinely runs past 60s)"New value: +"Upstream timeout in ms for this call (default $GEMINI_TIMEOUT_MS, else 60000 — 120000 at 4K, which runs past 60s)"

Previous value: -"Output aspect ratio (omni: 16:9 or 9:16)"New value: +"Exact output aspect ratio (omni: 16:9 or 9:16). `orientation` is the plain-language shorthand; this wins if both are given."

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Run the generation on Google's side and poll it, so a killed job can be recovered by gemini_get_result. Trade-off: retrieving a backgrounded interaction is unreliable today (some become permanently unreadable), so the default is off",
+  "type": "boolean"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "description": "How the clip comes back: \"uri\" (default — a Files API link the server downloads, no size ceiling) or \"inline\" (base64, capped ~4MB)",
+  "enum": [
+    "inline",
+    "uri"
+  ],
+  "type": "string"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Shape of the output, in plain terms: \"landscape\" (wide, 16:9), \"portrait\" (tall, 9:16) or \"square\" (1:1). Use this for a request phrased as landscape/portrait/vertical/horizontal. For any other proportion — 35mm photo (3:2), print (4:3), social (4:5), cinematic (21:9) — name it with aspect_ratio instead, which overrides this when both are given.",
+  "enum": [
+    "landscape",
+    "portrait",
+    "square"
+  ],
+  "type": "string"
+}

Previous value: -"Run in the background and return a job_id immediately instead of the image, so a long (Pro/4K) generation cannot hit the host tools/call timeout (-32001). Poll gemini_get_result with the job_id to fetch the result (jobs are per-process and expire ~10 min after completion)."New value: +"Run in the background and return a job_id immediately instead of the image, so a long (Pro/4K) generation cannot hit the host tools/call timeout (-32001). Poll gemini_get_result with the job_id to fetch the result. PREFER `max_wait_ms` on the hosted connector: it runs where the executor is only guaranteed to stay alive while the request is open, so this option is served there as a bounded wait rather than an immediate hand-off."

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Wait up to this many ms for the result; if generation is still running when the budget expires, return { job_id, status: \"running\" } immediately instead (poll gemini_get_result). Keeps fast results in-band while a slow batch can never trip the host tools/call timeout (-32001) — e.g. 20000 for multi-image sets. Ignored when async is set.",
+  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+  "maximum": 600000,
+  "type": "integer"
+}