health-check

MCP tool from Apple Photos MCP by sweetrb

Verify osxphotos is installed and the Photos library can be opened.

How to use it

health-check is exposed by the Apple Photos MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the health-check tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Apple Photos MCP

$claude mcp add apple-photos -s user -- npx -y apple-photos-mcp

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Other tools in Apple Photos MCP (39)

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Run a full setup diagnostic — six checks: the resolved Python interpreter (path + version — warns when it's older than the required 3.11, with brew install python@3.12 advice), osxphotos installation, sidecar mode (persistent vs one-shot fallback, plus the last respawn), the write-tools gate (enable

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Get full metadata for a single photo by UUID.

get-photos

Get full metadata for a batch of photos (up to 50) in one call — the batch equivalent of get-photo, for dedupe reviews, EXIF audits, and captioning passes.

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High-level stats about the Photos library.