What do I need to use Photo Library Rescue?

The platform(s); The scale and the pain; Backup status, honestly; Sentiment hotspots.

Is Photo Library Rescue free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Photo Library Rescue

Q: How do I know the Photo Library Rescue output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own 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.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

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.

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What to give it

▸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

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓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

⚠️ What it refuses to do

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

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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