The Idea

I spend a lot of time building tools for creative platforms like Adobe Creative Suite.
Panels with buttons, sliders, inputs, carefully designed workflows. I love that work. But I was curious: how close are we to just talking to these apps?
I put together a set of Claude Code skills, connected it to After Effects, and within minutes I was prompting it to do things inside a live project. No panel. No UI. Just a text prompt and a result.

How It Works

• Connected Claude Code to After Effects using agent skills that let it read project state and generate ExtendScript on the fly.
• Prompted it with real production tasks: organise layers, rename compositions, find-and-replace across text layers.
• Every action wraps in an undo group so nothing is destructive.
• Setup took minutes, not hours. The barrier to entry was surprisingly low.

What I Learned

It's early, and it's not replacing well-designed tools any time soon.
But it works. And it raises interesting questions about where creative tooling is heading. I wanted to be the kind of person who's already testing that, not reading about it later.