diff --git a/src/server/index.ts b/src/server/index.ts
index 5cc3347..c9ca00f 100644
--- a/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/src/server/index.ts
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ app.post("/api/projects/:id/instruct", async (c) => {
     ctx.analyze,
     await instructHighlights(project.id),
     await askHistory(project.id),
-    { videos: await instructVideos(project.id), assemble: ctx.assemble, watchBudget: QUICK_WATCH_SECONDS },
+    { videos: await instructVideos(project.id), assemble: ctx.assemble, clips: ctx.clips, watchBudget: QUICK_WATCH_SECONDS },
   );
   // A failed exchange stays on screen but out of what the model reads next.
   await userSays("failure" in out);
diff --git a/src/server/instruct.ts b/src/server/instruct.ts
index d3e340b..f0018b2 100644
--- a/src/server/instruct.ts
+++ b/src/server/instruct.ts
@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ export async function instructEdit(
   /** Videos it may add, how to build a cut from several of them, and how much
    *  footage this run may watch: past it, it stops with `background` and
    *  changes nothing (omitted in a background job: no limit). */
-  more: { videos?: InstructVideo[]; assemble?: Assembler; watchBudget?: number } = {},
+  more: { videos?: InstructVideo[]; assemble?: Assembler; clips?: ClipDeps; watchBudget?: number } = {},
 ): Promise<InstructDone> {
   if (!cfg.openrouterKey) {
     return {
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ export async function instructEdit(
       },
     };
   }
-  const ctx: InstructContext = { cfg, assetNames, sourceSeconds, analyze, highlights, assemble: more.assemble, watchBudget: more.watchBudget };
+  const ctx: InstructContext = { cfg, assetNames, sourceSeconds, analyze, highlights, assemble: more.assemble, clips: more.clips, watchBudget: more.watchBudget };
   let state = startInstruction(edl, instruction, assetNames, highlights, history, more.videos ?? []);
   for (;;) {
     const out = await instructStep(state, ctx);
diff --git a/test/e2e/run.mjs b/test/e2e/run.mjs
index 80e6282..4948fdc 100644
--- a/test/e2e/run.mjs
+++ b/test/e2e/run.mjs
@@ -1495,6 +1495,15 @@ console.log("14 ok: review comments off by default, on per link, pinned to an ex
       { title: "Why we started", start: "1:40.0", end: "2:30.0", hook_start: "2:10.0", hook_end: "2:14.0", why: "a story" },
       { title: "The number", start: "6:00.0", end: "6:45.0", hook_start: "6:00.0", hook_end: "6:03.0", why: "a surprise" },
     ] };
+    // Asked the way a person asks in the editor (not background): offered, then proposed.
+    const pickClips = world.askReplies[0];
+    world.askBodies = [];
+    world.askReplies = [pickClips];
+    r = await call("POST", `/api/projects/${pi}/instruct`, { instruction: "We'd need 5/6 cut downs, with a strong hook" });
+    assert.ok(world.askBodies[0].tools.some((t) => t.function.name === "make_clips"), "make_clips is offered in a quick answer");
+    assert.equal(r.data.job?.status, "proposed", JSON.stringify(r.data));
+    await call("POST", `/api/projects/${pi}/ask/jobs/${r.data.job.id}/cancel`);
+    world.askReplies = [pickClips, { content: "Made two clips from the interview." }];
     r = await call("POST", `/api/projects/${pi}/instruct`, { instruction: "5 vertical clips with a strong hook for LinkedIn", background: true });
     assert.equal(r.status, 202, JSON.stringify(r.data));
     const cj = r.data.job.id;