Pix AI through Claude

Pix AI is the album assistant you reach from the Claude app through the Pixamatch connector. It can check an album, say what it would change on a spread, and find a photo by what is in it. There is no Pix AI button inside the album designer any more.

Pix AI is not Pixie. Pixie is the help chat in Pixamatch (Ask Pixie, the round lens button in the designer): it answers how to use Pixamatch and can look at your account, but it never changes an album.

Connecting Pixamatch to Claude

1. In Claude (claude.ai or the Claude app), open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
2. Enter the address https://pixamatch.com/mcp and press Connect.
3. Sign in to Pixamatch and press Allow.

In a chat, switch the Pixamatch connector on and name the album you want to work on.

What Pix AI does

• Checks the album and lists what needs a look: cut faces, plain grids, the same layout twice in a row, photos out of time order.
• Suggests a fix for a spread: another layout for the same photos, a different photo in the big slot, a new crop.
• Finds photos by what is in them ("the ring close-up", "the couple laughing").
• Marks a photo as creation, group or detail material when it sits on the wrong kind of page. The next Rebuild uses the mark.

Your own version is never changed

Pix AI never writes on your version of the album. It tells you what it would change and which spread, and you make the change in the designer. It can write only on a version whose name starts with Pix AI · (made by Pixamatch); to use one, open Versions in the designer and switch to it.

What Pix AI never does

Pix AI works inside a spread: its layout, which photo is big, the order the photos read in, and the crops. It never:

• Moves a photo to another spread, or adds or removes photos.
• Splits, merges, inserts, deletes or reorders spreads.
• Changes parts, camera clocks or the Unplaced bin.

For those, use the spread organizer in the designer (⋯, then Director View… (or press Tab)). When Pix AI checks the album it still reports what only you can change, and says what to do.

Layouts you never want again

Press 👎👎 Never use this layout in the designer (on the spread toolbar, or in the spread's right-click menu). It asks first, then switches that layout off for every album: Auto-build, ↑ / ↓ layout cycling and Pix AI stop offering it. Spreads already on it keep it until you change them, and Template Studio → Layouts switches it back on. It is offered only for your studio's own layouts.