adobe-mcp
MCP servers for Adobe applications. Install one application's server on itsown, or the suite: one server for every application, with tools that workacross them.
The InDesign server was published as indesign-mcp-server up to 2.3.0. It isnow adobe-mcp-indesign, with the same tools; replace the package name in yourclient configuration.
| Package | What it drives | npm |
|---|---|---|
| adobe-mcp-indesign | Adobe InDesign: documents, pages, text, styles, tables, books, PDF and EPUB export (423 tools) | adobe-mcp-indesign |
| adobe-mcp-illustrator | Adobe Illustrator: documents, artboards, layers, shapes and paths, typography, colour and swatches, effects and 3D, symbols, patterns, Image Trace, images and links, variables and data sets, actions, export, prepress and printing (308 tools) | adobe-mcp-illustrator |
| adobe-mcp-photoshop | Adobe Photoshop: documents, image and canvas size, layers, selections, adjustments and filters, type, export and history (55 tools) | adobe-mcp-photoshop |
| adobe-mcp-aftereffects | Adobe After Effects: projects, compositions, layers, keyframes and expressions, effects, text, masks and rendering (44 tools) | adobe-mcp-aftereffects |
| adobe-mcp-premiere | Adobe Premiere Pro: projects and bins, sequences, timeline edits, markers, effects, keyframes and transitions, transcripts, metadata and export, through a UXP plugin (52 tools; not yet tested against Premiere Pro) | adobe-mcp-premiere |
| adobe-mcp-suite | InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro in one server, plus cross-application tools: Illustrator artwork into InDesign layouts, swatches with exact values | adobe-mcp-suite |
| adobe-mcp-core | The shared foundation: script escaping, the script runner, the server shell and the static script audit | adobe-mcp-core |
Each server runs on the machine where the Adobe application is installed andtalks to it through ExtendScript, the scripting interface the applications shipwith. Premiere Pro has no outside scripting route, so its server talks to aUXP plugin inside Premiere Pro instead. macOS and Windows are supported.
Install one application
Claude Code:
claude mcp add indesign -- npx -y adobe-mcp-indesign
claude mcp add illustrator -- npx -y adobe-mcp-illustrator
Any client that reads an mcpServers block:
{
"mcpServers": {
"indesign": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "adobe-mcp-indesign"] },
"illustrator": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "adobe-mcp-illustrator"] }
}
}
Install everything
claude mcp add adobe -- npx -y adobe-mcp-suite
The suite offers every application's tools, prefixed with the application(indesign_…, illustrator_…), and the cross-application tools. Load only someapplications with --apps indesign or ADOBE_MCP_APPS.
Each package's README covers its tools, conventions and configuration.
How the repository is organised
packages/
core/ adobe-mcp-core shared by every server
indesign/ adobe-mcp-indesign
illustrator/ adobe-mcp-illustrator
photoshop/ adobe-mcp-photoshop
aftereffects/ adobe-mcp-aftereffects
premiere/ adobe-mcp-premiere with its UXP plugin in uxp/plugin
suite/ adobe-mcp-suite every application in one server
The servers share their infrastructure through adobe-mcp-core, so a fix toescaping, path checks, result handling or the script runner reaches everyserver. What differs between applications stays in each package: its tools,its instructions, and how the application is told to run a script. Eachapplication package exports a module (its tools, handlers, instructions andscript runner); its own server and the suite are both built from it, so a toolis written once.
Development
npm install # installs every package and links them together
npm run check # syntax check, every package
npm test # every package's tests, including each server's static script audit
Run one package's tests with npm test -w packages/illustrator. The staticaudits run every tool against a stubbed application and check each generatedscript against the application's scripting object model; they do not needInDesign or Illustrator installed.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for releasing and for each package's guide.
Licence
MIT. See each package's LICENSE.
