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Summary

Adds a recipe to the MCP effects contract (openscreen://effects/contract) for staging real UI blocks: lifting a card to the camera, zooming into a panel, exploding a dashboard into 3D cards.

The compositor sees pixels, not the page, so the recipe tells the agent to:

• read each block's getBoundingClientRect() in the page it records, as fractions of the frame;
• write the rects into the WGSL as constants, with a few keyframes for a block that moves;
• hide the cursor and draw the pointer in the effect, moved with the block it sits on.

No contract change: contract 1 already covers it. We considered a rect param type, element tracks and a separate cursor layer, and dropped them: an agent re-prompts faster than a user tunes four sliders.

Related issue

None.

Type of change

• Documentation

Release impact

• No release note needed

Desktop impact

• Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

Two clips made with this recipe, about 5 min and 2 iterations each: a card from the shadcn/ui dashboard lifting to the camera, and four Grafana panels exploding into 3D cards.

Testing

• npx vitest --run electron/mcp/effects-contract.test.ts: passes.
• npx biome check electron/mcp/effects-contract.ts: clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance for lifting recorded interface blocks into visual effects.
  • Covers capturing normalized block bounds, encoding fixed values or time-based keyframes, and mapping them through footage coordinates.
  • Explains how to hide the recorded cursor when supported and redraw the pointer using cursor and click context.
  • Includes instructions for validating results by reviewing generated frames.

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📝 Walkthrough

The effects contract now documents a recipe for extracting UI blocks from recordings, positioning them through footage coordinates, handling cursor visibility, redrawing the pointer, and validating frames.

Changes: Recording UI extraction guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
UI block extraction recipe electron/mcp/effects-contract.ts	Adds guidance for normalized block bounds, constant or ctx.time-based keyframes, fx_from_footage placement, cursor handling, pointer redrawing with ctx.cursor and ctx.clicks, and validation with getFrames.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6fc21

The documented block-placement and cursor workflows account for the identified recording-mode limitations. The change is ready to merge after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Review comments at @electron/mcp/effects-contract.ts:
- Around line 152-154: Update the recording guidance around the block rectangle
conversion to map viewport coordinates into recorded-frame fractions: offset x
and y by the viewport origin after scaling from CSS viewport size to frame
viewport size, scale width and height without the origin offset, then apply
project cropping afterward.
- Around line 161-163: Update the cursor recipe in the documented recording
workflow to require an editable-overlay recording before hiding the editor
cursor. Explicitly state that system-cursor recordings bake pointer pixels into
the video and must be re-recorded with --cursor editable-overlay; retain the
existing setEditorSettings, ctx.cursor, and ctx.clicks guidance.

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