Cassette.mp4

Portable context, lower drift.

Cassette.mp4 packages transcripts, summaries, and instructions into a single assistant-readable context envelope.

Architecture/research

A public format concept and roadmap. Portability and reduced drift require validation with actual artifacts.

Availability note: the descriptions and commands below are the existing public concept record. No downloadable cassette release or signed example is supplied here; compatibility and verification remain unverified until tested with an actual artifact.

What Cassette.mp4 is

Cassette.mp4 is a portable, self-describing context envelope for AI assistants. It packages transcripts, summaries, and instructions into a single file that an assistant can consume on drop. The goal is repeatability, low drift, and portability.

  • Condenses: long transcripts and videos can be semantically chunked and summarized into compact payloads.
  • Faithful: an 80/20 approach keeps the small cassette useful enough for accurate reasoning.
  • Portable: travels through email, chat, or uploads without losing structure.
  • Universal: encapsulated in an MP4 container for compatibility across platforms.

Why it works

AI drift often comes from feeding models raw, oversized transcripts or unstructured context. Cassette.mp4 reduces that risk with semantic chunking, summarization, and a predictable JSON schema.

This turns hours of dialogue or gigabytes of video into a slimmer, replayable context file.

File anatomy

<ClientName>.mp4     # primary drag-and-drop cassette file
cassette.json        # same payload in JSON for editing or audit
schema.json          # optional JSON-LD / metadata sidecar
script_tag.txt       # optional ready-to-paste script tag
README.txt           # one-minute install and validation notes

Memory model

  • Episodic: references to past interactions or actions.
  • Semantic: stable knowledge extracted or linked.
  • Procedural: prompts, tools, and guardrails.
  • Working: per-task scratchpad for the current objective.

Example uses

  • Meeting recording summaries.
  • Video condensation into structured JSON.
  • Business onboarding packages.
  • Knowledge bundles for consistent assistant recall.

Roadmap

  • Optional encryption and signed manifests.
  • Multi-module bundles with schema, images, and billing.
  • Web demo player that renders onboarding UI directly from the cassette.

Developer note

This page intentionally abstracts packaging and extraction specifics to preserve IP while communicating the concept and benefits.

Inside the project

Make context travel with its explanation.

  1. Source material
  2. Context envelope
  3. Inspect
  4. Recover

Where it started

A file can arrive without the context needed to understand it. This experiment asks whether the material and its own explanation can travel as one understandable package.

What took shape

Cassette.mp4 explores a self-describing envelope for transcripts, summaries and instructions. Its public documentation records the format idea and how an assistant might inspect it.

What the work revealed

The history contains several generations of context packaging. A successful ZIP-based Scribr pack does not automatically prove the same behavior for the earlier MP4-envelope experiment.

The next step

Keep format versions explicit and test creation, opening and recovery against named receiving tools.