Adobe opens Creative Cloud to third-party AI agents

At the Adobe MAX conference in Miami, Adobe announced that Creative Cloud will support the local Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing third-party AI agents to work directly inside its professional creative apps.

Through MCP, AI agents from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others can operate Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects on a user's computer and edit native project files. Users can take over anytime since assets stay editable. Private testing is planned for early 2027.

Adobe also showed AI agents that keep working in the background. Users assign tasks like organizing files or quality checks, then just review the plan and confirm results without staying at the computer. The Firefly AI assistant will support this first. Its beta adds a planning mode and a model selector, letting users apply brand preferences across projects.