Agent skill

Photo Library Rescue

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Rescue a photo library drowning in duplicates, screenshots, and 40,000 unsorted items — the triage order that shrinks first (screenshots, bursts, dupes), the album-vs-search philosophy that ends…

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Install Photo Library Rescue

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill photo-library-rescue -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills photo-library-rescue --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/photo-library-rescue .claude/skills/photo-library-rescue && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
photo-library-rescue
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
621 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Rescue a photo library drowning in duplicates, screenshots, and 40,000 unsorted items — the triage order that shrinks first (screenshots, bursts, dupes), the album-vs-search philosophy that ends…

  • Works in 5 steps: Backup precedes deletion, absolutely: a… → Shrink by category, lowest sentiment… → Organize purposes, not taxonomy:… → …
  • Asked organize my photo library
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Rescue Order and Output Format, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Photo Library Rescue is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Rescue a photo library drowning in duplicates, screenshots, and 40,000 unsorted items — the triage order that shrinks first (screenshots, bursts, dupes), the album-vs-search philosophy that ends over-organizing, and the backup rule that comes before any deleting. Use when asked organize my photo library, 40k photos help, delete duplicate photos safely, or set up a photo system that lasts. Produces the backup-first step, the shrink passes in order, the light organizing layer, and the monthly habit.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked organize my photo library
  • 40k photos help
  • Delete duplicate photos safely
  • Set up a photo system that lasts

Example prompts

  • “/photo-library-rescue”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Backup precedes deletion, absolutely: a second verified copy (cloud + local, ideally) before pass one — because bulk deletion with no…
  2. Shrink by category, lowest sentiment first: screenshots (search screenshot, review-delete in bulk — they're 10–30% of most libraries and…
  3. Organize purposes, not taxonomy: favorites for the genuinely good; albums only for uses (Kids' highlights, House documents, the…
  4. The photos-as-documents split: receipts, whiteboards, IDs, and forms photographed over the years get moved to the document system…
  5. The habit closes the loop: monthly ten minutes — favorite the month's best, delete the month's screenshots/bursts, done. Cruft compounds…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Photo Library Rescue loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 131 tokens; SKILL.md has 621 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~131
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 621 words, ~1,276 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/photo-library-rescue/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
photo-library-rescue
description
Rescue a photo library drowning in duplicates, screenshots, and 40,000 unsorted items — the triage order that shrinks first (screenshots, bursts, dupes), the album-vs-search philosophy that ends over-organizing, and the backup rule that comes before any deleting. Use when asked organize my photo library, 40k photos help, delete duplicate photos safely, or set up a photo system that lasts. Produces the backup-first step, the shrink passes in order, the light organizing layer, and the monthly habit.

Photo Library Rescue Skill

Photo libraries induce a special paralysis: 40,000 items, emotional stakes, and no obvious start. The rescue order matters — backup before touching anything, then shrink by category (screenshots, bursts, blur, duplicates — the low-sentiment bulk), and only then organize what remains, lightly, because modern search (dates, places, faces, content) does more than albums ever did. The goal isn't a curated museum; it's a library where the good photos are findable and the cruft stopped multiplying.

What This Skill Produces

  • The backup-first step — verified, before any deletion; the rescue's non-negotiable opening
  • The shrink passes — ordered by volume-per-sentiment: screenshots → bursts/near-dupes → blur/pocket shots → true duplicates
  • The light organizing layer — favorites + a handful of albums for purposes, search trusted for the rest
  • The monthly habit — the ten-minute pass that keeps the library from re-growing the cruft

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The platform(s) — one ecosystem or a split (phone + cloud + old hard drive); splits need a consolidation decision first, and the skill sequences it
  • The scale and the pain — count, and what actually hurts (storage full? can't find anything? duplicate anxiety?) — the passes reorder by the pain
  • Backup status, honestly — is there ANY second copy? Nothing deletes until yes
  • Sentiment hotspots — the irreplaceable categories (the kids, the trip, the late relative's photos) — flagged so no bulk rule ever touches them

Framework: The Rescue Order

  1. Backup precedes deletion, absolutely: a second verified copy (cloud + local, ideally) before pass one — because bulk deletion with no backup converts a mess into a tragedy. Verify by restoring a sample, not by trusting a sync icon.
  2. Shrink by category, lowest sentiment first: screenshots (search screenshot, review-delete in bulk — they're 10–30% of most libraries and 0% of the memories) → burst/near-duplicate sets (keep best-of, platforms surface these) → blur and pocket shots → exact duplicates last (dedupe tools where available, always into a reviewable album before final delete).
  3. Organize purposes, not taxonomy: favorites for the genuinely good; albums only for uses (Kids' highlights, House documents, the annual-book candidates) — never year/month albums (dates already do that) and never one-album-per-event (search does that). Ten albums is a system; a hundred is a second mess.
  4. The photos-as-documents split: receipts, whiteboards, IDs, and forms photographed over the years get moved to the document system (folder-structure-designer) or a Documents album — they pollute both search and memories where they sit.
  5. The habit closes the loop: monthly ten minutes — favorite the month's best, delete the month's screenshots/bursts, done. Cruft compounds monthly or gets cleared monthly; the choice is the habit.
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Output Format

Photo Rescue: [platform(s)] — [count] items

Step 0 — Backup (verified)

[The second copy plan · the restore-a-sample verification · nothing proceeds before this line clears]

The Shrink Passes (in order)

PassHowEst. reduction
[Screenshots · bursts · blur · exact dupes — each with the platform's mechanism]

The Light Layer

[Favorites discipline · the ≤10 purpose-albums · the documents split · search-first retrieval note]

The Monthly Ten Minutes

[The three moves, calendared]

Quality Checks

  • Backup verified by restore-sample before any deletion
  • Passes run lowest-sentiment-first, and sentiment hotspots are excluded from bulk rules
  • Duplicates route through a reviewable album before final deletion
  • Albums number ≤10 and each names a purpose
  • The monthly habit exists with a calendar entry

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not delete anything before the verified backup — the rule with no exceptions
  • Do not start with the sentimental years — paralysis lives there; screenshots first
  • Do not build year/month albums — dates are already an index
  • Do not chase perfect curation — findable-good beats museum-complete, and only one of them ever finishes
  • Do not run bulk rules over the flagged hotspots — the kids' photos get eyes, not filters

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Organise my photo library."
  • "I have 40,000 unsorted photos: help."
  • "Delete duplicate photos safely."
  • "Set up a photo system that lasts."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/photo-library-rescue of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Photo Library Rescue

What does Photo Library Rescue do?

Rescue a photo library drowning in duplicates, screenshots, and 40,000 unsorted items — the triage order that shrinks first (screenshots, bursts, dupes), the album-vs-search philosophy that ends…. Photo Library Rescue is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Rescue a photo library drowning in duplicates, screenshots, and 40,000 unsorted items — the triage order that shrinks first (screenshots, bursts, dupes), the album-vs-search philosophy that ends over-organizing, and the backup rule that comes before any deleting.

When should I use Photo Library Rescue?

Photo Library Rescue fits situations like: asked organize my photo library; 40k photos help; delete duplicate photos safely; set up a photo system that lasts.

How do I install Photo Library Rescue in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill photo-library-rescue -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/photo-library-rescue in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/photo-library-rescue in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Photo Library Rescue in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill photo-library-rescue -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/photo-library-rescue in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/photo-library-rescue in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Photo Library Rescue in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill photo-library-rescue -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/photo-library-rescue, .gemini/skills/photo-library-rescue, .github/skills/photo-library-rescue and .opencode/skills/photo-library-rescue in your project.

What does Photo Library Rescue need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Photo Library Rescue is instructions for the agent only.

Does Photo Library Rescue access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Photo Library Rescue safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Photo Library Rescue use?

Photo Library Rescue is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Photo Library Rescue use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Photo Library Rescue?

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Who maintains Photo Library Rescue?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.