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After Effects MCP servers and skills

There are 8 ways to connect After Effects to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI assistants: 7 MCP servers and 1 skills. The most used is mcp-aftereffects (122 GitHub stars).

Best After Effects MCP servers, compared →

Most used

mcp-aftereffectskumoproductions
83

MCP server for Adobe After Effects — comp/layer introspection, undo-grouped ops, frame rendering.

AAB Local 1.6k/wk
After Effects MCP Engine-Room-Games
77

Control Adobe After Effects with AI — describe the animation you want and it gets built: layers, keyframes, effects, expressions and text, all editable afterwards.

AAC Local 232/wk
After Effects MCP Serverzachshallbetter
73

Drive Adobe After Effects from any MCP client: compositions, layers, animation and rendering.

AAC Local 26
Fnf After Effects MCP higgsfield-ai
73

Local MCP server for Adobe After Effects with native operations and offline creative skills.

FC Local 2.2k/wk
After Effects MCP a-y-ibrahim
73

MCP server that gives AI assistants deep programmatic control of Adobe After Effects: arbitrary ExtendScript execution, background rendering, deep project/layer inspection, and native Arabic/RTL and multilingual support.

AAC Local 79/wk
Aftereffects MCP Imt Immersive-Media-Technologies
70

AE-MCP-IMT + SKILLS — MCP server and agent skill for Adobe After Effects, built for autonomous AI agents (macOS + Windows): ~270 undo-grouped operations behind two tools, dry run, checkpoints with revert, atomic batches, project lock, dialog detection, li

AFC Local 218/wk

MCP servers (7)

  1. 1mcp-aftereffects kumoproductionsMCP server for Adobe After Effects — comp/layer introspection, undo-grouped ops, frame rendering.AAB4 days ago1.6k/wk83
  2. 2After Effects MCP Engine-Room-Games · AI and LLM toolsControl Adobe After Effects with AI — describe the animation you want and it gets built: layers, keyframes, effects, expressions and text, all editable afterwards.AAC3 days ago232/wk77
  3. 3After Effects MCP Server zachshallbetterDrive Adobe After Effects from any MCP client: compositions, layers, animation and rendering.AACtoday★ 2673
  4. 4Fnf After Effects MCP higgsfield-aiLocal MCP server for Adobe After Effects with native operations and offline creative skills.FC2.2k/wk73
  5. 5After Effects MCP a-y-ibrahim · AI and LLM toolsMCP server that gives AI assistants deep programmatic control of Adobe After Effects: arbitrary ExtendScript execution, background rendering, deep project/layer inspection, and native Arabic/RTL and multilingual support.AAC10 days ago79/wk73
  6. 6Aftereffects MCP Imt Immersive-Media-Technologies · AI and LLM toolsAE-MCP-IMT + SKILLS — MCP server and agent skill for Adobe After Effects, built for autonomous AI agents (macOS + Windows): ~270 undo-grouped operations behind two tools, dry run, checkpoints with revert, atomic batches, project lock, dialog detection, liAFC5 days ago218/wk70
  7. 7After Effects MCP oneprismAn MCP connector for Adobe After Effects. Real, editable layers and keyframes, not scripts.FC16

Questions

Is there an official After Effects MCP server?

Check the publisher on each listing: servers published by After Effects itself are the official ones. The most used After Effects server here is mcp-aftereffects by kumoproductions.

How do I connect After Effects to Claude?

Pick a server below, open its page and copy the install command for Claude Code, or the config block for Claude Desktop. Most After Effects servers need an API key or token from your After Effects account.