What it does
Use this instead of analyze_photos when photos are already scored and you only want a different selection: it re-applies thresholds and the keep-limit from stored data in well under a second, with no re-analysis. Manual picks (statuses the user or set_photo_status chose) are always preserved and reported as manual_preserved. mode="pipeline" (default) reruns the normal decision engine: keep/trash thresholds plus the shoot-relative selection pass, with target_count as a ceiling on keepers. That pass caps near-duplicate frames at 4 per look, so it can keep fewer than target_count; the result carries a note when that happens. mode="top_n" is for "give me the best N for a portfolio": exactly target_count photos with the highest scores become keep and every other analysed photo becomes culled (review). Nothing is ever moved to trash in this mode. target_count is required. Great for live tweaking: call it repeatedly with different values until the user likes the counts. Returns keep/review/trash counts, manual_preserved, total_considered, and per-status library counts.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
keep_threshold |
float | None |
optional |
trash_threshold |
float | None |
optional |
target_count |
int | None |
optional |
mode |
str |
optional |
Asking for it
You do not call this by name. You say what you want, and the agent picks the tool:
From this shoot, pick the best 60 for the client gallery and export them.
The rest of the culling tools
Workflows that use it
- Pick and export a client gallery — AI select best photos client gallery
Where it runs
On your machine. imagic's MCP server is a local process that your AI client starts; the photos never leave your disk and nothing is uploaded. That is true of every tool in the reference, including this one.
To call it you need an MCP client connected to imagic. Setup takes about three minutes for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and ten others.
Give your AI the whole pipeline
reselect_photos is one of 18 tools in imagic Max. The free 7-day trial includes all of them.