I gave Claude control of Photoshop

No. 163 of 245 · GitHub · published 23 Oct 2026, 21:30 UTC · 7 min read

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photoshop-mcp is a free, MIT-licensed macOS server that lets MCP clients such as Claude, Cursor, or Codex drive a locally running Photoshop through AppleScript, with no plugin required. It exposes tools for editing layers, adjustments, masks, selections, text, and exports, with safeguards including undo-grouped edits, automatic checkpoints, and overwrite confirmation.…

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Score

0.63total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.46
Reader interest0.75
Audience breadth0.38
Practical relevance0.75
Substantiated0.79
Technical depth0.88
New information0.90
Counts against: Promotional0.12
Counts against: Overclaim0.19

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.51	0.30	0.58	0.46	0.28	+0.25	+0.116
Reader interest	0.74	0.70	0.80	0.75	0.10	+0.20	+0.149
Audience breadth	0.37	0.35	0.42	0.38	0.07	+0.10	+0.038
Practical relevance	0.81	0.72	0.72	0.75	0.09	+0.15	+0.112
Substantiated	0.94	0.60	0.84	0.79	0.34	+0.10	+0.079
Technical depth	0.99	0.70	0.93	0.88	0.29	+0.10	+0.088
New information	0.92	0.80	0.98	0.90	0.18	+0.10	+0.090
Promotional	0.08	0.20	0.08	0.12	0.12	−0.15	−0.018
Overclaim	0.26	0.20	0.12	0.19	0.14	−0.15	−0.029
Sum of contributions							+0.626
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.626

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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Elsewhere

Elsewhere: HN 1 pts, not on front page

Discussion on Hacker News

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Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.