Photo to Anime Skill

Overview

Turn a photo into anime, manga, comic, cartoon, watercolor, clay, or 3D character art then review likeness and style consistency across the set rather than assuming they are preserved, from inside Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw. The work is produced on the hosted, paid Beatra service (mcp.beatra.ai).

This catalog entry is a reviewed pointer, not the executable package. It contains no client code and performs no Beatra operation by itself. The package it points to bundles three standard-library Python scripts that make network calls, store a credential, and can replace their own files. Read Install and Security & Safety Notes before activating it.

Pinned identity	Value
Package	ai-photo-restyler 0.1.4
Archive	https://cdn.beatra.ai/agent-packages/ai-photo-restyler/v0.1.4/ai-photo-restyler-skill-0.1.4.zip
Archive SHA-256	ac7e4070f7e931a095f55c19ee09adb4ba70f4880fb66dbfe755823e3bfa2449
Source tree	beatra-ai/photo-to-anime-skill@87bc4c4 (full SHA 87bc4c4e993e1ab49ded9e065087c1796cb7cbe4)
License	MIT No Attribution (MIT-0)

The archive holds regular files only (no symlinks, no executable bits, no binaries). Confirm that with the inspect commands below. Every file must be byte-identical to the source tree at the pinned commit.

When to Use This Skill

• Use when the user explicitly wants Photo to Anime work produced on Beatra and accepts that it is paid.
• Use when they have agreed to send prompts and any reference images to a third party.
• Do not use for local-only image editing or when no paid render was approved.

Install (pinned, verified, approved twice)

Step 1: Download and verify into a review directory

Explain that this downloads an external package from cdn.beatra.ai, then ask for approval. Only after approval:

umask 077
review_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
cd "$review_dir" || exit 1
curl --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 60 -fsSO "https://cdn.beatra.ai/agent-packages/ai-photo-restyler/v0.1.4/ai-photo-restyler-skill-0.1.4.zip"
printf '%s  %s\n' \
  'ac7e4070f7e931a095f55c19ee09adb4ba70f4880fb66dbfe755823e3bfa2449' \
  'ai-photo-restyler-skill-0.1.4.zip' | shasum -a 256 -c -

Stop if the check does not print OK. The expected digest comes from this catalog entry, not from a file on the same CDN.

Step 2: Inspect before activation

Preflight all ZIP member names/modes/sizes before extraction. Reject traversal/absolute or out-of-package paths, duplicate/case-colliding entries, symlinks/devices/executable/binary files, and excessive count/expanded size. Extract only afterward into the fresh private directory; post-extraction checks do not prevent an escape.

unzip -l ai-photo-restyler-skill-0.1.4.zip

# Only after complete member preflight passes:
unzip -q ai-photo-restyler-skill-0.1.4.zip
find ai-photo-restyler -type l -print            # expect no output
find ai-photo-restyler -type f -perm -111 -print # expect no output
grep -n '"auto_update": True' ai-photo-restyler/scripts/mcp_client.py

Confirm byte identity before activation with the public source tree (a second, independent host):

git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/beatra-ai/photo-to-anime-skill.git src
git -C src checkout --quiet 87bc4c4e993e1ab49ded9e065087c1796cb7cbe4 -- skills/ai-photo-restyler
(cd ai-photo-restyler && find . -type f | LC_ALL=C sort | xargs shasum -a 256) > archive.sha
(cd src/skills/ai-photo-restyler && find . -type f | LC_ALL=C sort | xargs shasum -a 256) > tree.sha
cmp archive.sha tree.sha && echo IDENTICAL

Report to the user what the review found: SKILL.md, manifest.json, the bundled Markdown references, and scripts/authorize.py, scripts/mcp_client.py, scripts/uninstall.py (Python 3.10+, standard library only, no dependency installation, no lifecycle hooks). Summarize the network, credential, local-state, telemetry, and self-update behavior listed under Security & Safety Notes.

Step 3: Copy in and disable self-update before any other command

Ask for a second, separate approval, because this changes agent configuration. Then copy the reviewed tree to the host's skills directory (Claude Code shown; use the equivalent path for other hosts) and immediately turn off silent self-update for that exact path:

dest="$HOME/.claude/skills/ai-photo-restyler"
test ! -e "$dest" && test ! -L "$dest" || { echo "destination exists; stop and ask the user"; exit 1; }
cp -R ai-photo-restyler "$dest"
python3 "$dest/scripts/mcp_client.py" update --auto off

The last command must print Automatic Beatra package updates are disabled. It writes only ~/.beatra/updates/<id>/state.json and makes no network request. Ru