# CVM — Course Video Manager

> CVM (Course Video Manager) is a video course authoring and playback platform: record, edit, and concatenate clips; structure content into courses, sections, and lessons; manage thumbnails, descriptions, and social/SEO metadata; and run AI-assisted authoring flows. Part of Albert Kovalevskij's albertonline.org platform. Built with Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, and Effect v4; backed by Postgres/Drizzle.

This is a curated, machine-readable index for AI agents and LLMs. Agent-facing protocol endpoints are listed under "Agent interfaces".

## Surfaces

- [Home](https://cvm.albertonline.org/): Course editor — sections, lessons, clips, and authoring status.
- [Videos](https://cvm.albertonline.org/videos): Standalone video file management and previews.
- [Archived courses](https://cvm.albertonline.org/archived-courses): Archived course listing.

## What CVM does

- Authoring: record and capture clips, trim and concatenate video, detect silence, build transcripts.
- Structure: organize courses into sections and lessons with ordering and dependencies.
- Publishing: generate YouTube titles/descriptions, thumbnails, SEO descriptions, and social captions.
- AI-assisted: article plans, newsletters, interview prep, scoping documents, and next-clip suggestions.

## Agent interfaces

- [MCP Server Card](https://cvm.albertonline.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): Model Context Protocol server discovery.
- [MCP endpoint](https://cvm.albertonline.org/mcp): JSON-RPC 2.0 (read-only) MCP server.
- [Agent Skills index](https://cvm.albertonline.org/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Published agent skills (SKILL.md artifacts).
- [API Catalog](https://cvm.albertonline.org/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 API discovery linkset.
- [Agent registration (auth.md)](https://cvm.albertonline.org/auth.md): How agents register and authenticate on behalf of users.
- [OAuth Protected Resource](https://cvm.albertonline.org/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource): RFC 9728 resource metadata.
- [A2A Agent Card](https://cvm.albertonline.org/.well-known/agent-card.json): Agent-to-Agent discovery card.

## Optional

- [Full content](https://cvm.albertonline.org/llms-full.txt): Expanded single-file summary of CVM.
- [Sitemap](https://cvm.albertonline.org/sitemap.xml): All indexable URLs.