Adobe

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

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Adobe skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by sfkislev/flue in skills/adobe/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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.

Signals

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Sep 2026
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Source
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