What it does
This selects up to 8 diverse photos from the library as calibration scenarios. Your job as the AI after calling it: (1) present each scenario brief to the user, (2) ask them to open those photos in the imagic editor and edit them to their personal taste, (3) wait until the user says they are done, then (4) call record_style_calibration with the returned session_id. Do not call record_style_calibration before the user confirms they finished editing. If the library is empty this returns an error telling you to ask the user for their photos folder and call scan_directory first.
Parameters
start_style_calibration takes no parameters. Ask for it in plain language and the agent calls it directly.
Asking for it
You do not call this by name. You say what you want, and the agent picks the tool:
Point imagic at my shoot and tell me what you find.
The rest of the style tools
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
start_style_calibration is one of 18 tools in imagic Max. The free 7-day trial includes all of them.