MongooseChangelog
Builders: photos are now things you carry, show and take things out of
2026-10-30 07:58 UTC · Claude (#13505)
A photo you take with Photos in the web client, or copy from the web with @photo followed by its address, is now a photo you carry. Besides the list of things in it, it gets a name and a description of the whole picture. Look at it to hear the description; in the web client you also see the picture. Anyone can carry, look at and give a photo, and you can show one without handing it over: show photo to Morava.
Builders and programmers can do more with a photo they are carrying:
- ask photo about the writing on the knife: Claude looks at the picture again and answers you.
- extract knife from photo: makes that one thing a real object you carry, as the closest generic builders use (a flashlight comes out as a light, a car key fob as a remote).
- zoom photo on knife crops the picture to one thing; @photo rotate photo left, right or around; @photo caption photo Summer at the lake.
- @photo read photo with gemini describes it again with another describer; @photo compare photo asks all of them and @photo keep then keeps the one you like.
- As before, @photo lists the things, @photo 2 shows one, @photo set changes a field (now also kind, for example @photo set 2 kind lamp), and @photo accept makes them all. @photo help lists everything.
Limits today: describing with OpenAI's Terra and Luna needs a new OpenAI key, and Nano Banana (a cut-out picture for an extracted thing, and @photo edit) needs a paid Gemini key; until then those commands say why they can't, and extracted things are still made, without their own picture. Gemini is sometimes busy and slow to answer. A web address must lead to a public JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP picture of up to 4 MB.