Adobe Retouch Portraits

A walk-away bulk retouching pipeline for photographers. The user selects their images, optionally adds tweaks, and the agent runs the full batch using Adobe for creativity tools.

Surface note: The default flow uses Adobe's MCP App widgets — the asset_add_file picker (Step 1) and the asset_preview_file preview (Steps 2c and 8). Follow it as written. Only if a widget tool is not available on this surface (e.g. Codex) use the No-widget fallback attached to that step. Present AskUserQuestion prompts as plain-text labeled options wherever no question widget exists.

No interactive image editing here. This overrides the single-image widget offer in the Interactive Image Widgets section of adobe_mandatory_init: this skill is a batch retouch pipeline, so whatever the image count, never call or mention an interactive editing widget (any _app tool) — run the pipeline below as usual.

Generative AI Policy

This retouching pipeline is fully non-generative by default. The core workflow — auto-straighten, auto-tone, adjustments, presets, blur, and crop — uses no generative AI, and that non-generative pipeline is the only behavior on surfaces that do not permit generative AI (including Claude).

Generative editing runs only where the surface permits it. A surface permits generative AI only when it exposes a generative tool such as image_fill_area (e.g. Codex). Where no such tool is available (e.g. Claude), perform no generative edits of any kind — do not call, attempt, offer, or mention them; run the non-generative pipeline only.

Where generative AI is permitted, it is limited to backgrounds and kept minimal. Only then may image_fill_area correct dust spots, sensor artifacts, or scratches on non-human areas (walls, floors, sky, props), and only when the fix is invisible at normal viewing size — remove a dust spot, not repaint a wall. Never apply generative tools to faces, skin, hair, bodies, or clothing on any surface. Do not alter the scene, remove objects, change the environment, or extend the frame.