Job Status

Immutable Catalog Entry

This descriptor comes from the active versioned Portal catalog.

READffmpeg.job_status

• Contract tier: agent_ready
• Risk: read
• Catalog version: 2026-07-12.3
• Descriptor hash: 6b2cb25ed661a0770fae7047d63d456ff82b68dbb16d783a808294eaabdffd6d

Use this to read the complete status, progress, outputs, QA, and safe error summary for a previously returned job ID. It does not retry or mutate jobs.

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-job-status-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.job_status",
    "arguments": {
      "job_id": "job_id_123"
    }
  }
}

Arguments Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "job_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "job_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Stable processing job ID returned by an FFmpeg operation."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "status",
    "state"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "qa": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Normalized QA outcome.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "error": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Safe processing error summary when failed."
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Normalized queued, running, success, error, or unknown state."
    },
    "report": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Optional analysis report.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "result": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Optional workflow or iteration result.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Provider job status."
    },
    "ranking": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "Optional comparison ranking."
    },
    "progress": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Progress percent when known."
    },
    "cache_hit": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the job result came from cache."
    },
    "error_code": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Normalized recoverable error category."
    },
    "logs_short": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Bounded sanitized job log summary."
    },
    "started_at": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "UTC start timestamp when known."
    },
    "finished_at": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "UTC completion timestamp when known."
    },
    "progress_pct": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Compatibility alias for progress."
    },
    "last_log_line": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Last non-empty sanitized log line."
    },
    "output_asset_ids": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Completed output asset IDs."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Code Examples

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mad_live_***' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-job-status-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.job_status",
    "arguments": {
      "job_id": "job_id_123"
    }
  }
}'

Node.js

const response = await fetch('https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-job-status-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.job_status",
    "arguments": {
      "job_id": "job_id_123"
    }
  }
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

url = 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ffmpeg-job-status-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ffmpeg.job_status",
    "arguments": {
      "job_id": "job_id_123"
    }
  }
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=60)
print(response.json())

Example Responses

200 Success

{
  "ok": true,
  "message": "Tool ffmpeg.job_status executed successfully.",
  "note": "Response shape varies by MCP tool. Inspect live responses for exact fields."
}

502 Upstream Error

{
  "ok": false,
  "classification": "upstream_http_error",
  "message": "Upstream MCP returned a non-success status."
}