I self-host my photos on <a href="https://immich.app" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Immich</a>. 20K+ photos, years of memories.
Immich already has solid AI — face recognition, CLIP search, smart tags. But try searching “that dinner with friends at the rooftop bar in Barcelona last July” and you’ll hit the ceiling. Its ML works great for short keywords, not for how humans actually describe their memories.
So I built an <a href="https://github.com/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">MCP server</a> ans a plugin that lets Claude talk directly to my Immich instance. Now I just type what I want:
→ “Create albums for every city I visited in 2024”
→ “Find all screenshots and show me before deleting”
→ “Show me photos from that hiking trip near the lake”
And it happens. Geographic albums from GPS data. Duplicate detection with perceptual hashing. Library health reports. Full natural language on top of Immich’s existing CLIP search.
21 MCP tools in 7 categories + 11 specialized skills that chain them into workflows — like <code>/my-travels</code> that scans your entire library and creates curated albums per destination.
Nothing gets deleted without showing you what it found and asking for confirmation. Your photos are safe.
Open source. MIT license. Works with recent versions of Immich.
If you have Immich and a Claude client, your library just can be smarter with this plugin.
→ <a href="https://github.com/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">GitHub</a>
→ <a href="https://drolosoft.com/immich-photo-manager.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Docs &amp; Demo</a>
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Juan Andrés Moreno Rubio

A developer built an MCP server and plugin that connects Claude to their self-hosted Immich photo library, enabling natural language commands to organize 20K+ photos. Features include creating geographic albums from GPS data, duplicate detection via perceptual hashing, library health reports, and safe deletion workflows with confirmation steps. The project is open source (MIT) and exposes 21 MCP tools across 7 categories plus 11 chained workflow skills.

I gave Claude access to my 20K photos. It organized them better than I ever could.