Claude-Image-Production-Plugin

Batch-stamp copyright, artist, and rights information on all images in a directory. Use when you need to quickly add copyright metadata to a photo library before distribution or archival — a convenience wrapper around exiftool.

Decode JPEG XL images (.jxl) to PNG or JPEG. Use when you need to convert JXL files back to standard formats for compatibility, display, or further editing.

Extract embedded JPEG and PNG images from a PDF at their native resolution, without rasterizing. Use when a PDF is primarily a wrapper around photos or images and you want to recover them at full quality without the page rendering overhead.

Rasterize PDF pages to numbered image files (JPEG, PNG, or TIFF) at a specified resolution (DPI). Use when you need to convert PDF content to standalone images — one image per page — with optional page range selection.

Read and display EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and other metadata from images as structured JSON. Use when you need to inspect image metadata without modifying it — opposite of scrub-metadata, which removes metadata.

Write EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata tags to image files. Use when you need to add or update metadata like artist name, copyright, description, keywords, or GPS coordinates on individual images.

Convert images to JPEG XL format (.jxl) with quality presets (lossless, visually lossless, or web). Use when you want optimal compression for photo archival or long-term storage, especially from JPEG originals where lossless transcoding preserves the original bitstream at smaller file size.

Losslessly transcode JPEG files to JPEG XL, preserving the original JPEG bitstream while achieving ~20% file size reduction. Use when archiving JPEG photo libraries where the goal is smaller files without re-compression artifacts.

Provision the plugin's tools — system binaries via the host package manager, Python tools into a plugin-owned uv venv at <data-dir>/venv/. Idempotent doctor — run before any command reports a missing dep. Never touches system Python or fights PEP 668.

Use when the user wants to rasterize SVG files — convert SVG to PNG, PDF, or PostScript at a chosen resolution. Wraps CairoSVG (Python, in the plugin venv). Single file or batch. Companion to `vectorize` (other direction).

Use when the user wants to trace a raster image (PNG/JPEG) into an SVG vector — useful for logos, line art, diagrams, and stylized illustrations. Wraps `vtracer` (Rust-backed, via Python wheel in the plugin venv). Companion to `svg-to-raster` (other direction).

Scaffold a multi-touchpoint image workflow inside the registered image workspace — a structured pipeline with explicit human review gates and optional cloud-AI generation/edit steps (Fal nano-banana via MCP). Use when the user says "new image workflow", "scaffold a workflow", "set up an image pipeline", "iterative image project", or describes a job that needs multiple rounds of generation → review → revision → export.

Use when the user wants to automatically straighten a tilted image — scanned documents, phone-captured pages, photographed receipts, or slightly off-axis photos. Detects the dominant skew angle and rotates the image to vertical/horizontal, optionally cropping the resulting transparent triangles. Uses ImageMagick `-deskew` for documents and a Hough-line fallback (via Python + OpenCV) for photographs.

Use when the user wants automatic tonal correction — fix flat/washed-out / underexposed / low-contrast images by stretching levels, normalising contrast, and gamma-correcting to a neutral midtone. Implements auto-level (per-channel histogram stretch), auto-gamma (midtone correction), and a combined "punch" mode via ImageMagick. Operates on JPEG/PNG/TIFF/WebP.

Use when the user wants to automatically correct the white balance of an image (or batch) — neutralise colour casts from indoor lighting, mixed light, underwater shots, scans, or uncalibrated cameras. Implements gray-world (default), white-patch (per-channel auto-level), and a combined mode via ImageMagick. Operates on JPEG/PNG/TIFF/WebP; for RAW use `darktable-cli` instead.

Use when the user wants to AI-upscale images 2× / 3× / 4× — recovering detail in low-res sources, prepping small photos for print, enlarging AI-generated images. Wraps `upscayl-bin` (the CLI bundled with Upscayl) with its model library; falls back to standalone `realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan` if Upscayl isn't installed. GPU-accelerated via Vulkan.

Use when the user wants to combine a folder or list of images into a single PDF — typically on a standard paper size (A4 default) for digital printers, document-style sharing, or proof sheets. Modes - one-per-page (default; auto-orient portrait/landscape per image), multi-up (2/4/6/9 per page), as-is (native pixel size). Prefers `img2pdf` for lossless JPEG embedding; falls back to ImageMagick `convert` for non-JPEG sources or when img2pdf is missing.

Use when the user wants AVIF output — modern web format with ~30% better compression than WebP at the same visual quality, and ~50% better than JPEG. Wraps `avifenc`. Companion to `convert-to-webp`. Best target for new web work; check browser support if delivering to ancient clients.

Use when the user wants to shrink JPEG files — losslessly with `jpegoptim` (~5–15% reduction, no re-encode) or with re-compression via `mozjpeg` (~10–15% better than libjpeg-turbo at the same visual quality). Web-prep workhorse for photo libraries.

Use when the user wants to shrink PNG files in a batch — losslessly with `oxipng` (typical 20–40% reduction, byte-identical decode) or aggressively with `pngquant` (lossy palette quantisation, 60–80% reduction with near-imperceptible quality loss for web use). Web-prep workhorse.

Use when the user wants to take a folder of images (any mix of HEIC, RAW, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP) and produce a web-ready set — EXIF stripped, resized to a sensible max dimension, encoded in modern formats (AVIF + WebP, with JPEG fallback), and optimised for size. End-to-end orchestrator. Mirrors `audio-production:polish`.

Use when the user wants to resize a large batch of images (>500 files) where ImageMagick throughput is the bottleneck. Wraps libvips for 5–10× faster batch resize at lower memory. Falls back to ImageMagick if `vips` isn't installed. Same outputs as `batch-resize` — different engine.

Use when the user wants to generate thumbnails at scale — index views, contact sheets, web previews, or just shrinking a library to manageable sizes. Wraps `vipsthumbnail` for sub-second-per-image generation, much faster than ImageMagick on large batches.

Create a new image project inside the user's registered image workspace. Use when the user says "new image project", "create an image project called X", "scaffold a new image set", or similar. Creates a project subfolder with source, working, exports, references layout and an optional git init.

Open the user's registered image workspace folder. Use when the user says "open my image workspace", "take me to my image workspace", or similar. Reads the path from workspace.json and opens a terminal there.

Register or create the user's image production workspace — a folder on disk where they keep image projects. Use on first run, or when the user says "set up my image workspace", "register my image workspace", "change my image workspace path", or similar. Persists the path so other skills (open-workspace, new-project) can reference it.

Generate AI graphics (banners, illustrations, hero images, social cards, etc.) using Fal AI's Nano Banana 2. Use when the user asks to create, generate, or make an image, banner, illustration, graphic, or artwork. Always render at 1K resolution.

Create and edit tech diagrams using the nano-tech-diagrams MCP server (Nano Banana 2 via Fal AI). Supports text-to-image, image-to-image, whiteboard cleanup, and 28+ style presets.

Strip EXIF / IPTC / XMP metadata from images using exiftool. Use when the user wants to remove identifying metadata (GPS, camera, timestamps, thumbnails) from a single image, a folder, or a recursive tree before sharing or publishing. Supports preview, backup-first, whitelist of fields to keep (e.g. Orientation), and recursive operation. Logs each run to notes/.