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feat(videogen): canonical video-generation surface + llama-swap client
New videogen/ contract package (ADR-0019): Request/Result/Model/Provider
with the imagegen conventions. Text-to-video and image-to-video are one
surface (Request.InitImage, nil = t2v) since hybrid checkpoints like
Wan 2.2 TI2V serve both from one model; Result carries a single clip.

provider/llamaswap gains VideoModel(id) targeting the blocking
POST {base}/v1/videos/sync (multipart, model-routed by the fork's new
video routes): vLLM-Omni parameter names, OpenAI-style input_reference
file part, optional fields stay off the wire so per-model launch-flag
defaults apply. CLAUDE.md package map picks up audio/ (missed in #12)
and videogen/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXQxVhXBw8PwFAtsVrXSmj
2026-07-12 09:31:08 -04:00

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ADR-0019: videogen — canonical video-generation surface

Status: Accepted — 2026-07-12

Context

mort is adding local video generation (Wan 2.2 / LTX-class models on a 24GB GPU) behind the same llama-swap instance that serves imagegen and audio. Like those modalities, video generation shares none of the chat machinery, so it needs its own small contract package (the ADR-0016/0017 pattern). Three shape questions: one interface for text-to-video and image-to-video or two, batch or single result, and which wire endpoint the llama-swap provider targets.

Decision

  • New videogen/ package with the established conventions: Request / Result / Option + Apply, Model / ModelOption / Provider, zero values mean backend default, Image = llm.ImagePart.
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video are one surface. Request.InitImage *Image (nil = pure text-to-video) instead of an imagegen-style separate Editor interface: hybrid checkpoints (Wan 2.2 TI2V) serve both modes from the same model and endpoint, so a second interface would duplicate the request shape for no dispatch benefit.
  • Result carries a single Video, not a batch. The blocking sync endpoint answers with the encoded clip as the response body — one request, one clip. Batching multi-minute generations behind one HTTP request is the wrong shape; if batch ever matters it arrives with an async job surface, not by widening this one.
  • provider/llamaswap targets POST {base}/v1/videos/sync (multipart/form-data, llama-swap routes by the model form field; the response body is the video). This is vLLM-Omni's blocking videos endpoint, and the steve/llama-swap fork dispatches it as a model route. Parameter names follow vLLM-Omni (num_frames, fps, num_inference_steps, guidance_scale); the conditioning frame is an input_reference file part per OpenAI's videos API. Optional fields stay off the wire so per-model launch-flag defaults apply — the imagegen convention.
  • No polling in v1. The async POST /v1/videos + GET /v1/videos/{id} job flow is deliberately not wrapped: callers (mort's skill tools) already run synchronous-with-generous-timeout and bound the call with a context deadline. An async Job surface is a compatible later addition.

Consequences

  • A videogen.Video is its own type (Data []byte, MIME string); there is no llm.VideoPart, and no chat-side video-input support is implied.
  • Duration is expressed as NumFrames + FPS (the diffusion-native knobs), not seconds; callers wanting seconds convert at their edge.
  • Any upstream exposing the same /v1/videos/sync shape (e.g. a ComfyUI shim) works unchanged; the contract does not name an engine.