A set of instructions for automating Adobe After Effects, a program for creating animations and motion graphics, through MCP, a way for AI tools to use external programs.

It helps create and modify compositions, layers, keyframes, text animations, lower thirds, title cards, logo reveals, and other motion graphics.

It gives the assistant guidance for addressing After Effects projects, layers, animation settings, effects, and expressions correctly.

ae-mcp — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by davidcasan/MCP-AE2

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,138 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00109	$0.02138
Opus 5.5	$0.00044	$0.00855
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00428
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00214

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9125aad2acf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ae-mcp 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 2mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ae-mcp — 377 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

SKILL/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

After Effects MCP Skill

Overview

This skill enables automation of Adobe After Effects through MCP tools. It covers project management, composition creation, layer manipulation, animation, effects, and expressions.

Critical Property Path Formats

After Effects properties require exact naming. Common patterns:

Transform properties:

Position: "Position"
Scale: "Scale"
Rotation: "Rotation" or "Z Rotation"
Opacity: "Opacity"
Anchor Point: "Anchor Point"

Text properties:

Source Text: "Source Text"
For text animators: Use relative paths like "Opacity" within animator context

Shape layer properties:

Position within shape group: "Contents.Shape 1.Transform.Position"
Scale within shape group: "Contents.Shape 1.Transform.Scale"

Effect properties:

Effect parameter: "Effects.Gaussian Blur.Blurriness"

Value Formats by Property Type

Different properties require specific value formats:

Position: {"x": 960, "y": 540} or [960, 540] Scale: [100, 100] (percentages) Rotation: 45 (degrees) Opacity: 100 (percentage, 0-100) Color (RGB 0-1 range): {"r": 1.0, "g": 0.5, "b": 0.0} Source Text: String value

Common Workflows

1. Creating a Basic Animated Scene

1. Create project (optional name)
2. Create composition with specs (width, height, duration, frameRate)
3. Add layers (solid, shape, text, AV)
4. Set initial properties (position, scale, opacity)
5. Add keyframes at different times
6. Apply easing for smooth motion
7. Save project

2. Text Animation Pattern

1. Add text layer with content
2. Set text properties (fontSize, color, position, justification)
3. Use create_text_animator for preset animations:
   - typewriter
   - fadeInChars
   - scaleInChars
   - slideInChars
   - randomize
   - wave
4. Or manually add keyframes to text properties

3. Effect Application Pattern

1. Apply effect to layer using apply_effect
2. Modify effect properties using modify_effect_properties
3. Or use apply_effect_template for preset effects:
   - gaussianBlur, directionalBlur, glassBlur
   - curves, colorBalance, brightnessContrast, vibrance
   - glow, dropShadow, vignette
   - cinematicLook, vhsRetro, neonGlow, filmGrain
   - chromaticAberration, duotone

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

examples.md 5.9 KB

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.

2mo ago First seen · 287 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 9125aad2acf2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ae-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidcasan/MCP-AE2 (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,138 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ae-mcp, differing in 377 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Creative and media

ae-mcp next to 6 skills from other repositories
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ae-mcpdavidcasan/MCP-AE2	Skill	0	2mo ago	MIT	A	109	Claude Code, Codex
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