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.

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.

If the user asks you to generatively modify a person (e.g. "change her hair color", "make him look younger"), clarify that this skill does not perform generative edits on people — and, on a surface with no generative capability at all, that generative editing isn't available here — then suggest a dedicated generative workflow instead.