Yakitsuke 焼付け
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Describe the look.
The camera develops it.

Connect an AI app such as Claude to Yakitsuke and say what you want in plain words. The agent tries settings on your camera's own processor, looks at what comes back, and keeps going until it's close. Then it saves the recipe, or develops the whole folder.

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Optional, and off until you turn it on. Works with AI apps that use MCP tools, such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code.

Claude · Yakitsuke · X-T4
You

Make a film simulation recipe for this one: a faded postcard from the seventies. Warm, soft contrast, washed-out color, a bit of grain.

render_preview4 variants · 3.0 s

  1. Classic Neg.
  2. Pro Neg. Std
  3. Eterna
  4. Classic Chrome

What you can ask

Four things to ask it.

Each one is shortened from a real session with Claude, Yakitsuke and an X-T4. Every image is what the camera developed, untouched.

Turn a description into a recipe

Like a faded postcard from the seventies: warm, soft, a bit of grain.See the session

Match a reference photo

Make the horse look like this.See the session

Develop a whole trip in one sentence

Convert everything from October 2024 with Faded Postcard.See the session

Adjust a recipe you already have

Warm the cat up, but keep the street gray.See the session

How it connects

Your camera, your Mac, and the AI app you choose.

Yakitsuke offers its tools to AI apps on your Mac over MCP, the standard that Claude and other AI apps use for tools. The AI app decides what to try. Yakitsuke has the camera develop it.

  1. YouSay what you want, in your own words and language.
  2. The AI appClaude Desktop, Claude Code or another MCP app. Picks the settings and judges the previews.
  3. YakitsukeRuns each tool on your Mac, with your library, recipes and export settings.
  4. Your cameraDevelops every preview and every file, over the USB cable.

What the agent can do

camera_status
Check that the camera is connected and ready.
list_photos
Find photos by folder, date, rating, film simulation, or whether they've been exported.
get_photo
Read a photo's shooting info and the settings it was shot with.
render_preview
Have the camera develop one photo up to four ways, and look at the results.
list_recipes
Read your saved recipes.
create_recipe
Save a recipe to your library.
export_batch
Develop up to 50 photos full size with a recipe, using your export settings.
add_folder
Add a folder of RAF files to your library.

What it can't do

  • Write the camera's custom settings (C1–C7). That stays in Yakitsuke, which backs them up first.
  • Replace or delete files. Every export is a new file, next to its RAF unless you chose another folder.
  • Change your RAF files. They are only read.
  • Work on its own. The tools are there only while Yakitsuke is open with AI agents turned on.

Set up

Three steps in Settings.

You need Yakitsuke, a supported camera, and an AI app that can use MCP tools. All of it is under Settings → AI agents.

  1. Turn it on

    Open Yakitsuke with the camera connected, and turn on Let AI agents use Yakitsuke.

  2. Connect your AI app

    Claude Desktop: click Add to Claude Desktop, then restart Claude Desktop. Claude Code: copy the command shown there and run it in Terminal. Other MCP apps: copy the configuration.

    claude mcp add --transport stdio --scope user yakitsuke -- /Applications/Yakitsuke.app/Contents/MacOS/yakitsuke-mcp

  3. Add the Skill

    Recommended. Export Skill… saves a zip that teaches the agent how to tune a look on the camera: a few variants per round, coarse to fine.

    Claude Desktop: turn on code execution and file creation in its settings, then upload the zip under Skills. Claude Code: unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/.

Privacy

What the AI app sees.

Yakitsuke itself never talks to an AI service. The AI app you connect sees what its tools return, and may send that to its provider.

Only what the tools returnYour photo list (file names, folders and shooting info), your recipes, the camera's status without its serial number, and scaled-down previews with no metadata.
Under your AI provider's policyWhat the AI app does with it is up to that app and its provider. Use one you trust with your photos.
Off until you turn it onOnly programs on your Mac can reach the connection, and only while the setting is on.
Read the privacy policy

Questions

Good to know

Which AI apps work?
Apps that can use MCP servers on your Mac. Claude Desktop gets a one-click setup and Claude Code a command to copy; other apps take the standard configuration. We test with Claude.
Does it cost extra?
Not in Yakitsuke: the agent tools are free during the beta. Your AI app has its own plans and limits.
Is the agent always right?
It judges the previews by eye, as you would, and shows you its best one or two before saving anything. You can keep adjusting the recipe in Yakitsuke afterwards.
How long does it take?
The camera's part is quick: about half a second per preview on an X-T4, 1.7 s when clarity is set, and about 3 s per photo for a full-size export, counting the time to send the RAF and save the file. In the sessions on this site that came to 11–33 seconds per look. The rest is the AI app thinking between rounds, which depends on the app and the model.
Does it work without the camera?
In trial mode the agent can preview with a simulated camera, but those previews are rough adjustments, not film simulations, and it can't export.

Try it on your own photos.

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