aftr

Enables AI agents to control Adobe After Effects to create videos programmatically, with commands for comps, layers, effects, and rendering.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: AE_BRIDGE_TOKEN, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configAE_BRIDGE_AERENDER— aerender lives at the app root: /Applications/Adobe After Effects <year>/aerender. The controller and panel auto-detect it. If your install is non-standard, set (see [section 10](#10-configuration)).

configAE_BRIDGE_ALLOW_DEV— (unset) 1 to surface dev-only commands

configAE_BRIDGE_FFMPEG

configAE_BRIDGE_HOST— 0.0.0.0 AE_BRIDGE_TOKEN=your-secret npm run controller

configAE_BRIDGE_LOG_LEVEL— info debug, info, warn, or error

configAE_BRIDGE_PORT— 8787 Port

configAE_BRIDGE_PUBLIC_URL

configAE_BRIDGE_RENDER_WAIT_MS— POST /media/render { compId, name? } render, transcode to H.264 .mp4, returns { downloadUrl }. Waits up to (default 150s); longer renders return { pending, jobId }

configAE_BRIDGE_TIMEOUT_MS— 30000 Command timeout

🔐 secretAE_BRIDGE_TOKEN— AE_BRIDGE_HOST=0.0.0.0 =your-secret npm run controller

configAE_BRIDGE_URL— "env": { "": "http://127.0.0.1:8787", "AE_MCP_TOOLS": "core" }

configAE_MCP_TOOLS— "env": { "AE_BRIDGE_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8787", "": "core" }

🔐 secretANTHROPIC_API_KEY— claudeReviewer: a slot that judges intent with a vision model; set to enable.

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commit: 628397d700d6282fe2be4d42f4a388392250947a

code hash: 088bbd59892c69b2ddb88e43f3735dda2ff4eb4483151d590c534e7fb38c0e93

verified: 7/13/2026, 9:50:15 AM

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