adobe-after-effects

adobe-after-effects is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,929 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for automating Adobe After Effects, a program for creating motion graphics and composited video.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build compositions, create expression-based controls, set up batch renders, and maintain Essential Graphics templates.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for controlling projects, compositions, layers, effects, and rendering through scripts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-video-lab plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps build compositions, create expression-based controls, set up batch renders, and maintain Essential Graphics templates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/adobe-after-effects
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill adobe-after-effects
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-video-lab, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,929 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.01929
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00772
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00193

Measured 6d ago against content hash 725ece1b7742, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adobe-after-effects scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/mas-video-lab/skills/adobe-after-effects/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adobe After Effects Motion Graphics AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

After Effects is layer-based: Project → CompItem → Layers → Properties / Keyframes / Expressions. Automation is primarily ExtendScript (JSX, ES3 dialect) against app.project, CompItem, AVLayer, and renderQueue. Delivery: Render Queue (blocking render()), Queue in AME (queueInAME), or Essential Graphics → .mogrt. Dynamic Link ties comps into Premiere.

Keep scripts ES3-compatible (var, no arrow functions/template literals in JSX shipped to AE).

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 After Effects build → deliver                 │
│                                                             │
│  Project graph                                              │
│  ├── FootageItem / FolderItem / CompItem                    │
│  ├── Layer types (AV, Shape, Text, Camera, Light, Null)     │
│  └── Keyframes / Expressions / Effects                      │
│                                                             │
│  Automation                                                 │
│  ├── ExtendScript DOM + beginUndoGroup                      │
│  ├── Expressions (thisComp / thisLayer / time)              │
│  └── Essential Graphics property exposure                   │
│                                                             │
│  Delivery                                                   │
│  ├── Render Queue + OutputModule templates                  │
│  ├── queueInAME(false|true)                                 │
│  └── exportAsMotionGraphicsTemplate → .mogrt                │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

When to use / when not to

Use when

  • Creating comps, text/shape layers, null/parent rigs, expressions, or batch render queue items.
  • Packaging lower-thirds / bugs as .mogrt for Premiere editors.
  • Diagnosing expression errors, missing fonts, or output module template mismatches.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago Changed · +57 lines · +11 tokens per session 725ece1b7742
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -4 tokens per session 169b8a4ae3cd
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 126 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b21b3a0a900e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adobe-after-effects is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,929 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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