Adobe Suite Skills

AI agent skills for creative tools. Start with After Effects automation — describe what you want in natural language, and Claude Code (or other agents) will generate and execute the code for you.

Built by aedev.tools

npx skills add aedev-tools/adobe-agent-skills

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What it does

• Reads your project — understands your comps, layers, properties, keyframes, and expressions
• Generates and runs ExtendScript — you describe what you want, it writes and executes the code
• Covers the full AE workflow — layers, keyframes, expressions, effects, compositions, assets, and rendering
• Always undoable — every action wraps in an undo group, Cmd+Z always works

Example prompts

"Animate the table rows in one by one with a slide-up and fade, staggered 0.12s apart"

"Add a drop shadow to every text layer in this comp and set them all to multiply"

"Create a lower-third with a background bar, text, and a line accent — animate it sliding in from the left"

"Find all missing footage in this project and tell me which comps are affected"

"Precompose all the icon layers into a single comp and loop them"

"Add expression controls to this null so I can drive all the text colors from one place"

Setup

1. Install the skill:

   npx skills add aedev-tools/adobe-agent-skills
   

2. Enable scripting in After Effects:

   Preferences > Scripting & Expressions > "Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network"

3. Start prompting. Open your AE project, open your coding agent, and describe what you want.

Requirements

• Adobe After Effects (any recent version)
• macOS (Windows support coming soon)
• A coding agent that supports Agent Skills (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

What's inside

The skill includes domain knowledge and tooling across the full After Effects scripting API:

Domain	Coverage
Layers	Create, delete, duplicate, reorder, parent, configure
Keyframes & Animation	Set keyframes, easing, interpolation, temporal/spatial control
Expressions	Write, link, and debug expressions
Effects	Add and configure effects by matchName
Compositions	Create, precompose, nest, configure
Assets & Footage	Import, replace, organize footage
Rendering	Render queue, output modules, export
Batch Operations	Bulk modifications across layers and comps

34 built-in scripts that handle common tasks without generating code:

Script	What it does
Trim Comp to Content	Fit comp duration to layer content
Null from Layers	Create controller nulls, auto-parent
Fit to Comp	Scale layers to fit/fill/stretch to comp
Label Layers	Batch-set label colors by type or name
Blend Mode Set	Set blend mode on selected layers
Split Layer	Split layers at the playhead
Layer Stagger	Stagger layers in time
Batch Rename	Bulk rename layers, comps, or items
Easing Presets	Apply smooth, snappy, or bounce easing
Smart Precompose	Precompose with auto-trimmed duration
True Comp Duplicator	Deep-clone comps with independent sub-comps
…and 23 more	Anchor points, expressions, fonts, rendering, cleanup, etc.

Plus query scripts that read your project state without stealing focus — from a lightweight overview down to individual layer properties — so the agent only loads the context it needs.

Feedback & Issues

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License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.

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