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Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with the metadata of photo, video, or audio files — not the pixels/frames/audio themselves. Core intents: shifting or fixing capture timestamps (timezone wrong, clock off, "bump the date"); reading, writing, removing, or copying GPS / geotags (including geotagging from a GPX track or pulling embedded GPS out of GoPro/DJI clips); stripping private info ("wipe gps", "remove metadata before posting/texting/sharing", sanitize for Instagram/SNS); renaming or sorting files into folders by capture date / shot date; copying tags between files or to/from XMP sidecars; exporting EXIF/IPTC/XMP to JSON or CSV. Trigger on DateTimeOriginal, EXIF, IPTC, XMP, geotag, GPX, "shot date", "capture date", "strip/wipe metadata" — even when "exiftool" is never said. Do NOT trigger for pixel-level work: resizing, cropping, rotating, format conversion, video transcoding, audio editing, OCR, or visual duplicate finding — those are ffmpeg/ImageMagick.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/exiftool:exiftoolThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Read, write, and manage metadata in image, video, and audio files using the
references/safety.mdreferences/tag-cheatsheet.mdreferences/tasks/copying.mdreferences/tasks/datetime.mdreferences/tasks/formats.mdreferences/tasks/gps.mdreferences/tasks/reading.mdreferences/tasks/renaming.mdreferences/tasks/sanitize.mdreferences/tasks/video.mdreferences/upstream/INDEX.mdreferences/upstream/cli-options.mdreferences/upstream/common-mistakes.mdreferences/upstream/examples.mdreferences/upstream/faq.mdreferences/upstream/filename.mdreferences/upstream/geolocation.mdreferences/upstream/geotag.mdreferences/upstream/idiosyncracies.mdreferences/upstream/install.mdRead, write, and manage metadata in image, video, and audio files using the
exiftool CLI. This skill provides task-oriented translations from
natural-language requests into safe exiftool invocations.
exiftool must be on PATH. Verify with exiftool -ver. If absent:
brew install exiftoolsudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perlLook up the user's intent in this table and read the corresponding
reference before composing commands. Most requests need exactly one
task file; writes additionally require references/safety.md.
| User intent | Reference |
|---|---|
| View / extract metadata | references/tasks/reading.md |
| Add / remove / convert GPS | references/tasks/gps.md |
| Date / timezone correction | references/tasks/datetime.md |
| Bulk tag copy / sidecar XMP | references/tasks/copying.md |
| Rename / organize by capture date | references/tasks/renaming.md |
| JSON / CSV / table export | references/tasks/formats.md |
| Video (GoPro/DJI) metadata | references/tasks/video.md |
| Sanitize before publishing | references/tasks/sanitize.md |
| Need a tag name? | references/tag-cheatsheet.md |
| Writing files? (REQUIRED before any write) | references/safety.md |
| Deep dive on upstream | references/upstream/INDEX.md |
These four rules apply universally and must be honored even when the relevant task file is not yet read:
=, <, or -overwrite_*) follows
plan → confirm → execute. State what will change, get user OK, then
run. Detail in references/safety.md.-if query (or scripts/plan-batch.sh)
to display the matching file count.Composite:GPSPosition is read-only. Write to
EXIF:GPSLatitude/GPSLongitude plus their Ref tags. (Pitfall P-001.)-FileModifyDate is filesystem mtime, not capture date. When
the user says "fix the date", default to -DateTimeOriginal.
(Pitfall P-003.)For the full pitfall catalog (P-001 through P-010), see
references/safety.md.
scripts/ ships shell wrappers for common multi-step patterns. Use them
when the LLM would otherwise reconstruct the same recipe ad hoc:
| Script | Use case |
|---|---|
scripts/plan-batch.sh | Mandatory pre-step for batch destructive ops. |
scripts/strip-private.sh | SNS-publish sanitize preset. |
scripts/dry-rename.sh | Preview a -FileName< rename. |
scripts/extract-gpx.sh | GoPro/DJI embedded GPS → GPX. |
All scripts accept --help for usage.
references/upstream/When the relevant references/tasks/*.md does not cover the user's
request, or when the user asks about an option the task file does not
mention, consult references/upstream/INDEX.md to find the upstream
documentation excerpt. Each upstream file's frontmatter records which
upstream HTML page it derives from and the upstream version pinned in
vendor/exiftool/.
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npx claudepluginhub jaxx2104/exiftool-skill --plugin exiftool