Add AI-powered image description and classification capabilities to Drupal media.

What it does

With this recipe, your Drupal site gains automatic image understanding: when you upload a media image, the system can generate:

Alt text via the “Generate Alt Text” action
Image description (free-text)
Image tags drawn from a taxonomy vocabulary

All of this is wired into the media/image bundle, so it works out-of-the-box once the recipe is applied.

Why it matters

Drupal currently lacks built-in AI-based image classification, which limits media discoverability, search, and automation. This recipe helps close that gap by:

Enabling richer metadata on images without manual editing
Supporting future AI features (e.g. RAG-based image retrieval)
Reducing the burden of content maintenance

It’s a foundational building block for more advanced media/AI workflows.

How it works (internals)

When applied, the recipe configures:

A new taxonomy vocabulary dedicated to image classification
A description field added to the media/image bundle
A taxonomy reference field for classification tags
Field widget actions on media/image to invoke alt-text generation
Automators so that descriptions and tags are populated after saving

On upload or editing, once you generate alt text and save, the description and tags are automatically filled.

Requirements & compatibility

How to get started

Install this recipe into your recipes/ directory
Enable modules: ai token
Configure an AI provider that supports Chat with Image Vision
Run drush recipe ../recipes/ai_recipe_image_classification
Upload or edit a media image, click “Generate Alt Text,” and save

After saving the description and tags are filled out automatically.

AI Image Classification

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