old-photo-restoration

old-photo-restoration is a skill for Claude Code from DeepKolor/deepkolor-agent-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for restoring damaged, faded, or black-and-white photographs while retaining their original identity and vintage character.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fix physical damage, reduce blur, correct fading or yellowing, enlarge an image, and add natural color.
Why use it?
It provides a careful order for repairing, improving, and optionally coloring an old photo without replacing faces or making it look overly polished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the old-photo-restoration plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to fix physical damage, reduce blur, correct fading or yellowing, enlarge an image, and add natural color.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deepkolor/deepkolor-agent-skills/old-photo-restoration
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add DeepKolor/deepkolor-agent-skills --skill old-photo-restoration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DeepKolor/deepkolor-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install old-photo-restoration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for old-photo-restoration

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 496 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00124 $0.00496
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00248
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00050

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4839b026cabe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

old-photo-restoration scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/old-photo-restoration/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Old Photo Restoration

Lite edition — routing and core rules for agent discovery. Full prompt templates, platform playbooks, and production workflows run on DeepKolor.

Restore damaged, faded, or black-and-white photos — repair, deblur, color correct, upscale, natural colorize.

When to use

See description in frontmatter — the agent loads it at startup for routing.

Workflow

  • Diagnose degradation first; fidelity over beautification.
  • Preserve original identity and vintage character.
  • Pipeline: repair → enhance → colorize (optional), one step at a time if needed.

Defaults

aspectRatio=auto, resolution=1K

Tool: create_image_task

{
  prompt: string,
  scene: "text-to-image" | "image-to-image",
  aspectRatio?: string,
  imageUrls?: string[],
  resolution?: "1K"
}

Available when your agent runtime exposes DeepKolor generation tools. Otherwise use this skill as a prompt-engineering guide and adapt tool names to your stack.

Boundaries

  • Old/damaged photos only — not modern photo edits or new stylized portraits.
  • Never swap faces or over-beautify.

Output

After generation, reply briefly: what was created, key parameters, and one useful next step. Return a full prompt only when the user explicitly asks.

Full version

Production-grade references (SOPs, templates, platform rules) ship inside DeepKolor — not in this public lite package.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 57 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 4839b026cabe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

old-photo-restoration is a skill published in the GitHub repository DeepKolor/deepkolor-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 496 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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