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- Engine autosave module: Preferences (autoSave.enabled/intervalMinutes=5/maxVersions=20/
  saveCurrentProject/recoveryJournal/recoveryIntervalSeconds), persisted in the per-user data
  dir; prefs.get/set/reset commands.
- Background worker (filmcraft-autosave thread): the UI thread only hands over the Arc<Project>
  snapshot; JSON encoding and atomic writes happen on the worker. Premiere-style auto-saves to
  <project dir>/Auto-Save/<name>-YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.fcproj (local time), only when changed,
  rotated to Maximum Project Versions, optionally also saving the project.
- Recovery journal: debounced snapshot of unsaved changes in <data>/Recovery/<session>/ guarded
  by an OS file lock; on launch, sessions whose lock is free and that left a snapshot are offered.
  Clean quit removes the journal (or keeps it, marked cleanExit, if changes were unsaved).
- Commands: file.recover, file.discardRecovery, file.recoveryList, file.autoSaveNow,
  file.autoSaveStatus, file.listAutoSaves.
- UI: Preferences ▸ Auto Save page (Edit ▸ Preferences, Cmd+,; FilmCraft ▸ Settings… on macOS),
  "Recover Unsaved Changes" dialog at startup, Revert confirmation; all with automation ids.
- Desktop: --recover / --no-recover / --data-dir; local-time offset via chrono (clock).
- Verified in the app: edits, kill -9, relaunch, dialog, Recover restores the edits (unsaved, original path).
- docs/project-files.md: auto-save, recovery and measured costs (2,000 clips: 2.5 ms encode,
  1.4 MB, ~30 ms atomic write+fsync, all off the UI thread). ROADMAP M11 updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Control protocol & MCP
## Desktop control channel
`filmcraft --control 9876` (or `FILMCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT`) listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>` (loopback only).
One JSON request per line → one JSON reply per line:
```json
{"id": 1, "method": "engine.execute", "params": {"command": "sequence.addEdit", "params": {"seconds": 3}}}
{"id": 1, "ok": true, "result": {"cuts": 2}}
```
Methods (handlers in `crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs`):
| Method | Params | |
|---|---|---|
| `engine.execute` / `ui.menu.invoke` | `{command, params}` | any engine or UI command id |
| `engine.commands` / `ui.menu.list` | – | command registry / menu tree |
| `ui.inspect` | – | UI state (tool, workspace, dock, timeline view, playback, fps…) |
| `ui.elements` | `{prefix?}` | every on-screen interactive element: id, label, rect |
| `ui.set` | `{tool, workspace, mode, theme, focused, playbackRes, timeline:{pps,scroll,fit}}` | |
| `ui.panel.show` / `ui.panel.close` | `{panel}` | |
| `ui.click` / `ui.move` | `{id}` or `{x,y}`, `button`, `count`, `modifiers` | synthetic pointer input |
| `ui.drag` | `{from, to, steps, modifiers}` | press–move–release |
| `ui.scroll` | `{id|x,y, dx, dy, modifiers}` | wheel / trackpad |
| `ui.key` / `ui.type` | `{key}` (`Cmd+K`, `Space`…) / `{text}` | keyboard |
| `ui.timeline.hit` / `ui.timeline.locate` | `{x,y}` / `{clip, edge?}` | timeline hit-testing |
| `ui.playback` | `{action: play|stop|toggle, speed?}` | |
| `ui.screenshot` | `{path?, panel?}` | PNG of the window or one panel |
| `ui.resize`, `ui.focus`, `app.quit` | | |
Element ids are stable, e.g. `timeline.clip.<id>`, `timeline.track.V1.lock`, `tools.Razor`,
`project.item.<id>`, `effects.item.gaussian_blur`, `panel.tab.Timeline`, `program.transport.playback.toggle`.
Project files, auto-save, crash recovery and preferences commands (`file.recover`, `prefs.set`, …) and their
automation ids are listed in [project-files.md](project-files.md).
## MCP
`filmcraft-cli mcp` serves MCP on stdio: headless (in-process session; `--demo` / `--project p.fcproj`)
or `--bridge 127.0.0.1:9876` to drive the running app. Tools: `command_list`, `command_run`,
`project_inspect`, `sequence_inspect`, `media_import`, `render_frame`, `ui_inspect`, `ui_elements`,
`ui_click`, `ui_drag`, `ui_key`, `ui_type`, `ui_screenshot`, `ui_control`. `.mcp.json` registers both.
Time is in ticks (254 016 000 000 per second); commands also accept `seconds`, `frame` or `timecode`.