This skill should be used when the user asks to "cut to the beat", "fix the pacing", "edit this sequence", "sync cuts to music/BPM", "add a match cut / J-cut / L-cut", "build a speed ramp", or "plan a shot sequence / edit timeline". Covers editing rhythm, transitions, retiming, and translating an edit plan to an NLE…
This skill should be used when the user asks to "build a color palette for a motion piece", "make a gradient background", "animate a color transition", "interpolate colors smoothly", "fix muddy/gray gradients", "convert colors to OKLCH", "color-grade a video for mood", "fix washed-out After Effects renders", "gamma…
This skill should be used when the user asks to "add an animated background", "build a mesh/gradient background", "make an aurora/shader background", "add constellation/particle background", "animated hero background", or "a subtle looping background behind content". Covers CSS mesh gradients, GLSL shader gradients…
Diagnose and repair the connection between the AE MCP tools and After Effects — panel not installed, AE not running, Adobe debug preference off, bridge not responding. Load when an After Effects tool reports it cannot reach AE, or when the user is setting this up for the first time.
How to drive Adobe After Effects well through the AE MCP tools — orienting in a project, building and animating layers, keyframes and easing, expressions, effects, text and shapes, and the gotchas that silently produce wrong output. Load whenever a task involves After Effects, motion graphics, comps, layers, or…
Help a motion designer capture their house style — palette, type, motion and layout — into the house-style.md file that sits next to their After Effects project and shapes everything built afterwards. Load when the user asks to create, edit or review their style guide, when they say work does not look like theirs, or…
Use when a task specifically concerns Adobe After Effects: After Effects compositions, layers, effects, expressions, rendering, ExtendScript, AEGP, PF, or C++ SDK; this is the product subskill routed from adobe-products.
Use when a task specifically concerns Adobe Common Platform: shared Adobe platform questions, CEP, ScriptUI, shared ExtendScript, cross-product scripting, or community type references; this is the product subskill routed from adobe-products.
Use when a task specifically concerns Adobe InDesign: InDesign documents, layouts, pages, spreads, frames, styles, publishing, UXP, or layout scripting; this is the product subskill routed from adobe-products.
Drive a running After Effects instance directly from the shell to build, edit and render motion graphics — no MCP, plugin or panel required. Use whenever the user wants Claude to work inside After Effects: building animations, title sequences, logo stings, UI/product motion, data visualisations, or fixing an existing…
Use this skill when adding or extending a LayerCake MCP tool — especially read-only inventory tools like aelistcomps / aelistsources / aelistfolders, new ae registrations in server.ts, ExtendScript inventory snippets, or parsers. Trigger even when phrased as "expose more project data", "add a list tool", "return JSON…
Create or edit AgentSync configuration — AGENTS.md, rules, skills, commands, subagents, settings, MCP servers, hooks, or per-tool configs. Use this skill when adding a rule, creating or scaffolding a skill, writing a slash command, defining a subagent persona, editing permissions, configuring an MCP server, setting up…
Use this skill when inspecting or mutating a live After Effects project through LayerCake MCP tools (aehoststatus, aeopenproject, aecloseproject, aeprojectcontext, aeprojectsummary, aelist, aegetitemrefs, aepatchproject, aesaveproject, aeevalscript, aedocs). Trigger even when phrased as "look at the comp", "rename…