Adobe - Agentic Control of Graphic Software

Control Adobe desktop apps - Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Audition - from the shell via Flue, without an MCP server.

This skill lets a coding agent operate Adobe desktop applications through Flue, a local shell-to-application bridge. The agent pipes ExtendScript into a per-app bridge process and gets structured JSON back. Flue covers Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign, and Audition through a consistent stdin/stdout contract.

agent shell -> <app>_bridge.py -> ExtendScript -> JSON result

When to use

The human requests work performed inside an Adobe desktop app — inspect the open document or project, make bounded edits, run small ExtendScript steps. A CLI agent cannot act inside these apps without a bridge like Flue.

How to proceed

1. Read FLUE.md in this directory first. It explains how Flue works, the bridge contract, a worked ExtendScript example, and safety expectations.
2. Identify which Adobe app the human is working in — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, or Audition — and use the matching adapter (e.g. adapters/photoshop_adapter/photoshop_bridge.py).
3. If Flue is installed: also read C:\Users\fredd\.claude\skills\flue\SKILL.md and the matching adapters/<app>_adapter/APP.md for the operational contract, then work from there.
4. If Flue is not installed: tell the human. The install command is pip install flue && flue setup. Do not install without explicit approval in the current session.

Other apps

Flue also supports Blender, Houdini, Autodesk 3ds Max, Unity, and Microsoft Office through the same stdin/stdout contract. One install covers all adapters.

Safety

Flue acts inside professional desktop software. Treat the human as the driver; prefer small, inspectable steps; avoid destructive actions unless explicitly requested. Flue is MIT-licensed and reviewable on GitHub / PyPI before use.