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Right click on one or more Ani file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to pm in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.ani -c "convert to pm" (how).
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Let your AI agent convert ANI to PM
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the ANI files in my Downloads folder to PM”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.ani -c "convert to pm"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert ANI to PM?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.ani -c "convert to pm" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Ani files are Windows Animated Cursor files that are used for displaying custom animated mouse cursors in the Windows operating system. They are similar to animated GIFs and can be created with various image editing programs.
PM (Unix XV Graphic File) is an image format used with the Unix XV image viewer and is supported by some other image viewers. It is a raster based format that stores RGB color values for each pixel in the image as well as various other settings.