Using Rawed+ with AI agents

get_state Get app state

Read-only

What the app shows (for orientation only; no tool acts on it): mode (library/edit), open folder, selection, photo shown in the editor with its history, presets, settings clipboard, library sort/filter, editor view (tool, zoom, compare, overlays, selected mask), shown device, recent folders, running batch and preferences.

No arguments.

list_photos List photos

Read-only

Supported photos in a folder (by file name, regardless of the library's filter and sort), with file name, path, file type, rating, flag, color label, capture date, camera and whether edited. Does not change what the app shows.

get_photo_info Photo info

Read-only

Metadata of a photo (camera, lens, exposure, capture date, dimensions, color profile, location, IPTC keywords; read-only), its rating/flag/label, RAW engine capabilities (decoder versions, supported controls, as-shot white balance, baseline exposure, whether a neural denoise model is installed), its edit history (labels and position, for jump_to_history / undo / redo), save status and whether it is shown in the editor.

get_recipe Get edit recipe

Read-only

A photo's complete current EditRecipe as JSON (light, toneMapping, toneCurve, color, hsl, pointColors, colorGrading, presence, detail, optics, geometry, effects, masks, raw, whiteBalance). Values use Rawed units: exposure in EV, most sliders -100...100.

get_analysis Analyse photo

Read-only

Image statistics of a photo: luminance percentiles, clipping, dynamic range (EV), top vs bottom brightness, noise risk.

render_preview Render preview

Read-only

Render a photo with its current edits and return it as a JPEG image so you can see the result.

list_presets List presets

Read-only

Presets with name, whether built in, and the setting groups each one changes.

No arguments.

open_folder Show folder

Read-only

Show a folder of photos in the library (File › Open Folder / Open Recent). View only: other tools take explicit paths and don't need it.

recent_folders Recent folders

Read-only

List File › Open Recent folders, or clear the list.

select_photos Select photos

Read-only

Change the library selection the user sees, like clicking in the grid: select paths, all or none, or step to the previous/next photo (Photo › Previous/Next Photo; in edit mode this shows it). View only: no tool acts on the selection.

open_photo Show photo

Read-only

Show a photo to the user in the editor (also photos on a memory card or drive). View only: editing tools take the photo's path and work the same whether or not it is shown.

show_in_finder Show in Finder

Read-only

Reveal files or folders in Finder (Photo › Show in Finder). This brings Finder to the front.

update_recipe Update edit recipe

Changes photos or files

Deep-merge a partial EditRecipe into a photo, e.g. {"light": {"exposure": 0.3, "highlights": -40}}. Covers every inspector slider and toggle (light, tone curve points, HSL, color grading, effects, detail incl. noiseReduction.neural, optics, geometry angle/perspective/crop, RAW engine). Arrays (curve points, masks) replace the whole array; prefer edit_mask for masks and set_white_balance for white balance modes. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

auto_adjust Auto adjust

Changes photos or files

Run statistical Auto (Photo › Auto Adjust / Auto Landscape) on a photo, from that photo's own statistics. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

recover_dynamic_range Recover dynamic range

Changes photos or files

Protect highlights and lift shadows from the photo's statistics. Repeating it on the same photo right after with another strength re-derives from the same base, like the inspector slider. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

apply_preset Apply preset

Changes photos or files

Apply a preset by name. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

set_white_balance White balance

Changes photos or files

White balance: As Shot, Auto (estimated from the photo), Custom temperature/tint, or the eyedropper at a point that should be neutral. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

apply_tone_curve_preset Tone curve preset

Changes photos or files

Set a point-curve channel to Linear, Medium Contrast or Strong Contrast. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

transform Rotate, flip, crop ratio

Changes photos or files

Geometry, one action per call: rotate 90° (resets the crop), flip, set the crop aspect ratio (centered crop) or reset all geometry. Straighten angle, perspective and the crop rectangle itself are update_recipe geometry values. Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

auto_straighten Auto straighten

Changes photos or files

Level the horizon with horizon detection (Photo › Auto Straighten). Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

edit_mask Edit masks

Changes photos or files

Local adjustment masks of the photo at path; one step in its history per call. Actions: add (new mask from one shape; optional name and adjustments), add_component (to mask_id, combined by operation), update_component (component_id: operation, inverted, or new shape parameters), remove_component, set (mask_id: name, enabled, amount 0...100, adjustments), delete, select (show it in the inspector; only for the photo shown in the editor). Shapes: linear_gradient {start, end} (full effect at start, fading to end); radial_gradient {center, radius_x, radius_y, feather}; brush {strokes: [{points: [[x,y],…], size (fraction of long edge, default 0.08), feather (60), flow (50), density (100), erase}]}; luminance_range {lower, upper (0...1), feather}; color_range {hue (degrees), hue_range, min_saturation (0...1), feather}; sky; subject. Points are {"x","y"} normalized 0...1 in the uncropped, unrotated photo, top-left origin. adjustments: exposure (EV), contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, saturation, sharpness, clarity, dehaze (-100...100). Mask and component ids belong to that photo; see get_recipe {path}.masks.

jump_to_history Go to history step

Changes photos or files

Return a photo to a step of its own edit history, as clicking it in the History panel. No step is discarded: jump back to the previous history_position to return; undo / redo {path} step from the jumped-to step. Index 0 is the photo as it was when first edited or shown in this app session; see get_photo_info {path}.history.

reset_all_edits Reset all edits

Changes photos or files

Return every setting, the crop and all masks of a photo to its defaults as one step (Photo › Reset All Edits). Acts on the photo at path: one step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app. If the photo is the one shown in the editor, the user sees the change live; otherwise it is edited without changing what the app shows.

undo Undo

Changes photos or files

Undo the last edit step of the photo at path (made by you or the user), and only of that photo; other photos are never affected. Ratings, flags and labels are not part of a photo's edit history.

redo Redo

Changes photos or files

Redo the last undone edit step of the photo at path.

set_rating Rate photos

Changes photos or files

Set rating (0-5), flag and/or color label of photos as one step the user can undo in the app (Edit › Undo).

copy_settings Copy settings

Read-only

Copy a photo's settings to Rawed's settings clipboard for the user's Edit › Paste Settings. No tool reads this clipboard: paste_settings takes its source photo explicitly.

paste_settings Paste settings

Changes photos or files

Copy settings from the photo at source to each photo in paths (Edit › Paste Settings / Paste Selected Settings): one step in each target photo's own history.

manage_preset Manage presets

Can delete a preset for good

Create a preset from the settings of the photo at path, rename, delete (user presets only; cannot be undone), import a .rspreset file, or export a preset to a file.

export Export

Can delete a preset for good

Export photos with their current edits, and wait until done (File › Export…). Starts from Rawed defaults, not the Export sheet's last settings: Full-Size JPEG (JPEG 90%, original size, sRGB, all metadata, "{name}", next to the original); quick_convert is the same with the sheet's last settings. Sources on memory cards or in folders that can't be written require a directory argument; no files are written until a usable destination is provided. A directory on a memory card is rejected. Does not change the Export sheet's remembered settings. on_conflict decides what happens when a file with the output name already exists; a name that is one of the exported photos, or that two photos would share, is numbered instead. Returns the written paths and the number of skipped photos.

save_jpeg Save as JPEG

Can delete a preset for good

Save photos with their current edits as full-size JPEGs next to the originals (File › Save as JPEG) and wait until done: <name>.jpg, sRGB, quality 90, metadata kept (location removed only when the Export sheet's Remove Location or no-metadata choice says so). A JPEG original, or a photo whose <name>.jpg is a file Rawed didn't write (such as the camera JPEG of a RAW + JPEG pair), gets <name> edited.jpg instead. Originals and their edit files are never changed. on_conflict decides what happens when that JPEG already exists. Photos on memory cards or in folders that can't be written fail (use export with a directory). Returns the written, skipped and failed paths.

quick_convert Quick Convert

Changes photos or files

Alias of export that starts from the Export sheet's last settings (File › Export…) instead of Rawed defaults, also takes folders, and never asks: an existing file is kept and the new one numbered (<name>-2.<ext>). Without saved settings it starts at Full-Size JPEG (JPEG 90%, original size; earlier versions started at Web). A preset and the other options override them. Sources on memory cards or in folders that can't be written require a directory argument; no files are written until a usable destination is provided. A directory on a memory card is rejected. Returns the written paths.

merge_hdr Merge to HDR

Changes photos or files

Merge bracketed photos (at least two, in the given order) into a linear HDR TIFF next to the first one when its folder is writable, and show it in the editor (Photo › Merge to HDR). Pass directory when the first photo is on a memory card or its folder can't be written. Waits until done and returns the merged file's path.

list_devices List devices

Read-only

Connected memory cards and external drives.

No arguments.

show_device Show device

Read-only

Show a memory card or drive in the library (sidebar › Devices) and wait for the photo scan, or close it. Returns the photos grouped as in the gallery (RAW + JPEG pairs are one item).

copy_from_device Copy to folder

Changes photos or files

Copy photos from a memory card or drive to a folder on the Mac (File › Copy to Folder) and wait until done. Shows the device in the library while it is scanned. Nothing on the card is changed.

eject_device Eject device

Changes photos or files

Eject a memory card or drive (File › Eject).

set_view Control the view

Read-only

Operate the GUI without changing photos: mode, editor tool, zoom, before/after, clipping overlays (highlights, shadows, zebra, heatmap, threshold), EDR preview, sharpening mask, mask overlay and selected mask, inspector and filmstrip visibility, inspector tab, library sort and filter, thumbnail size.

set_preferences Preferences

Read-only

Rawed Settings › Editing defaults for newly opened photos.

edit_point_color Point Color

Changes photos or files

Point Color (Color panel): change one color picked in the photo — its hue, saturation and luminance — without masks; every pixel close to that color changes, with a smooth falloff. Actions: add (sample the color at `sample`, or give `color`), update (point_id: any of the values below), delete (point_id), move (point_id, offset -1 earlier / 1 later; points apply in order). Values: hue_shift, saturation, luminance (-100...100; luminance 100 = +1 EV on that color), range (0...100, default 50: how far from the color the change reaches), hue_range, saturation_range, luminance_range (0...100, default 50: refine the range per dimension), enabled. `color` is {"lightness", "chroma", "hue"} in OKLCh of the linear working space, or {"hex": "#RRGGBB"} (sRGB). Point ids and targets are in get_recipe.pointColors. One step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app; if the photo is shown in the editor the user sees it live.

targeted_adjust Targeted adjustment

Changes photos or files

Change the color at a point of the photo, like dragging up or down on it with the targeted adjustment tool: target color_mixer changes the Color Mixer (HSL) bands of that color, weighted as the mixer blends them; target point_color changes the point color that covers that color, adding one sampled there if there is none. `amount` is in slider units (-100...100), added to the current values. Gray colors can't be changed in the Color Mixer. One step in that photo's own edit history (undo with undo {path}), saved next to the photo like an edit in the app; if the photo is shown in the editor the user sees it live.

assess_photos Assess photos for culling

Read-only

Measure photos for culling; read-only (nothing is edited, rated or saved). Each photo is measured on a 1024 px sRGB image: RAW files on the camera's embedded preview (as shot, before edits; get_analysis measures the RAW data itself), other files downsampled. Per photo: sharpness — variance of the Laplacian (after a light 3×3 pre-blur) over the frame (global) and in its sharpest 5 % (local, so a sharp subject on a soft background counts as sharp), score 0–100 (log scale, local 5 → 0, 500 → 100), likely_blurry when local < 15 (conservative: mildly soft frames of detailed scenes pass; in a duplicate group compare relative_to_group_best, softer_than_group below 0.5); exposure as shot — highlight_clip_percent (any channel ≥ 250/255), shadow_clip_percent (all ≤ 5/255), ev_offset (mean EV of the frame vs. 18 % gray), likely_overexposed (ev_offset > 1 or > 5 % clipped), likely_underexposed (ev_offset < −2.5 or > 20 % crushed); low-key and high-key scenes can be flagged on purpose; faces (Apple Vision) — count, box (0…1, top-left origin), capture_quality 0…1 (compare the same person across frames), eye openness (height/width of the landmark eye contour; open ≈ 0.25–0.45) and eyes_closed when both are below 0.18 — a heuristic: null for faces under 48 px wide or without landmarks, unreliable for profiles, sunglasses, squinting or looking down. Near-duplicates across the given photos: Vision feature print distance (revision 2, on a 224 px copy) ≤ duplicate_threshold (default 0.6; re-encoded copies ≈ 0.1, different scenes ≈ 1.2), complete linkage (every pair in a group is within the threshold), with suggested_keep per group (no closed eyes, then sharpest, then best face quality, then least clipping) and each photo's nearest match. Thresholds are repeated in the reply. Unreadable files are listed under failures.