PhotoCraft MCP (agent-driven photo editor) — guide skill for images & thumbnails
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Open-source Rust photo editor (PSD layers, masks, adjustment layers) whose 500+ commands an agent can run over MCP or CLI, e.g. batch-grade a folder of images.
- Type: Guide · Images & thumbnails
- Slug:
photocraft-mcp - Status: live
- Publisher: ArtCraft (storytold) (community)
- License: Apache-2.0
- Source: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex
- Requires: PhotoCraft desktop app or photocraft-cli, GPU optional (wgpu compositor; CPU path available)
- Adoption: 76,192 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)
What it does
PhotoCraft is a clean-room Photoshop-class editor from the ArtCraft suite. Every menu item is a command shared by the UI, the CLI, a JSON control channel and an MCP server (photocraft-cli mcp), so an agent can open PSDs, add curves/adjustment layers, smart-sharpen, apply layer styles and export, or apply one action list to a whole folder. Round-trips real PSD files.
Use when
- you need to retouch, grade, sharpen or composite AI-generated images in batch after generation
- you need layered PSD output from an agent
- you want deterministic post-processing instead of re-generating
Not for
- generating images from a prompt
- video editing (see FilmCraft)
Install
- Claude Code:
claude mcp add photocraft -- photocraft-cli mcp - Codex:
codex mcp add photocraft -- photocraft-cli mcp - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install photocraft-mcp
Example output
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/storytold/photocraft/main/docs/images/photocraft-demo.jpg — PhotoCraft's editor (README screenshot) (credit: ArtCraft (storytold) (README), https://github.com/storytold/photocraft)
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