# ai-image-editing

A skill that names the editing job, picks the right engine and writes the spec: object removal, background cutout, upscaling, outpainting, restoration.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 603 installs · ★ 199
- Author: social-media-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ai-image-editing

## What it does

This skill acts as a dispatcher. You describe what should happen to an image — drop a person from the frame, cut out a background, raise the resolution, extend the canvas to a new ratio, restore an old photo — and the agent classifies the task, routes it to a matching engine and writes the spec: masks, prompts, settings, chain order. Where APIs are connected it can call them directly; otherwise it hands you the exact manual steps.

The framework inside is TOUCH: task before tool, one change at a time, uphold the real, check the seams at 100% zoom, hand off with rights. Before touching anything it reads `brand-profile` and `design-and-templates` so the edit still fits the visual system, plus `before-after-and-transformation` for the rules on comparison imagery.

The hard line is baked into the skill itself: an edited real photo is an edited claim. Creative upscalers invent detail that was never in the original, so accuracy-critical images need the faithful mode, not the artistic one. Concealing defects is out, body retouching carries a label requirement in several markets, and stripping watermarks or provenance is off the table. A human judges every result at 100% — the agent does not declare the seams clean. This skill covers images that already exist; generation from scratch belongs to its sibling skills, and quick in-workflow fixes stay in `canva`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill ai-image-editing -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ai-image-editing/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill ai-image-editing -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill ai-image-editing -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install social-media-skills/skills ai-image-editing
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill ai-image-editing -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills --path skills/ai-image-editing
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill ai-image-editing -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ai-image-editing/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- remove an object or a person from a photo without leaving a trace
- cut out a background with hair and glass intact
- upscale a shot without invented detail
- extend a frame to a different aspect ratio
- restore an old photo while keeping the likeness

## Example prompts
- Remove the person on the left from this product photo, keep the background
- Cut out the background here — the hair needs to stay clean
- Upscale this image to print size, faithful mode, no hallucinated detail

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ai-image-editing
description: >-
  The AI image-editing router — inpainting/object removal, background removal, upscaling,
  outpainting, old-photo restoration, and retouch, routed task-first to the right engine. Use when
  someone wants to remove an object/person from a photo, cut out backgrounds, upscale an image,
  extend an image to new aspect ratios, restore an old photo, fix a generated image, or asks which
  editing tool to use. Uses the TOUCH framework. Reads brand-profile + design-and-templates first.
  The agent names the task, routes to the right engine, writes the spec, and can call APIs where
  connected; the HUMAN judges every result at 100%; WoopSocial publishes. Honesty spine: an edited
  real photo is an edited claim — creative upscalers hallucinate detail (never on
  products/documents), no defect concealment, body-retouch disclosure honored, no
  watermark/provenance stripping. Distinct from image-prompt/flux/nano-banana (generation), canva
  (the design workflow), and before-after-and-transformation (the claim rules).
version: 1.0.0
---

# ai-image-editing

The **edit router** — name the task, route the engine, one change at a time, uphold the real, check the seams,
hand off with rights. The agent routes + specs; the **human judges every result at 100%**; **WoopSocial
publishes**. (Ships with `tools/integrations/ai-image-editing.md`.)

## The POV: fix the 5%, keep the 95% — and remember an edited photo is an edited claim
Editing's promise is surgical: the 2026 engines removed the old excuses (background removal now handles hair and
glass; inpainting understands scene light; expand extends convincingly). The top-1% operator holds three lines
the tool marketing won't. **(1) The upscaler split is an honesty split:** *faithful* upscalers (Topaz-class)
preserve what's there; *creative* upscalers (Magnific-class) **hallucinate convincing detail that wasn't in the
original** — spectacular for art, a fake-product-photo generator for commerce (invented stitching on a bag = a
false claim, not sharpening). In-image text gets mangled — re-typeset it; no upscaler beats a reshoot.
**(2) Editing real photos crosses into misrepresentation faster than generating:** defect concealment fails the
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