Adobe brings AI agents to Creative Cloud and Firefly, and opens Photoshop to third-party assistants
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Adobe Creative Agent reaches Frame.io, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator and Premiere, and in Firefly it runs an assistant that shows its plan for approval before acting. Adobe is also preparing MCP connections through which other companies' agents will edit Photoshop and other app files locally. Adobe offers all this in beta or preview, and those connections will not be ready until 2027.
Adobe has used its Adobe MAX conference in Miami Beach to extend its AI agent, Adobe Creative Agent, to more Creative Cloud apps: Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Frame.io. The agent coordinates jobs that involve several steps, which professionals can hand over and steer; in Premiere, for example, it can apply effects to every clip in a sequence, follow a subject cut out with a mask from frame to frame, or fix color and exposure for a whole sequence in one go. The assistants built on this agent are in beta in the desktop apps and, in Photoshop's case, only inside its beta version.
The other new feature for professionals is local integrations based on MCP, the protocol an AI agent uses to connect to an app and work in it. Adobe showed them as a preview: they will let another company's agent work on the user's computer with Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects and change their native files directly, where layers, vectors, media bins and sequences stay editable. If that agent is also connected to other compatible tools, such as Slack or Google Drive, it can bring them into the same process. According to Adobe, they will arrive in private beta in early 2027.
In Firefly, its AI creative studio, the agent sits behind Firefly AI Assistant, also in beta. The assistant gains a Plan Mode, where the plan is reviewed, edited and approved before the agent starts; a selector to choose the model for each session or let the agent pick; preferences such as colors, formats or brand guidelines that are set once for every project; and always-on agents, in preview, that keep working in the background on recurring tasks such as sorting incoming files, checking quality or adapting content for different channels. Firefly also brings together models from Adobe and from partners such as Google, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, ByteDance and Kling.
Adobe's announcements do not give the price of these features. At the same event it announced other new features, such as Firefly Design, in beta, which puts illustration, image editing, animation, 3D and print on a single canvas, and two image enhancement models from Topaz Labs, a company Adobe has acquired. The Firefly details are in its dedicated announcement.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
The most significant part is not Adobe's own assistant but the door it opens to outside ones. If another company's agent can work on the original Photoshop or Premiere file and leave layers and sequences editable, professionals can pick their favorite assistant without leaving Adobe's tools, and Adobe stays at the center of the work even if it does not win the assistant race. For studios and designers, the practical change will take time: almost everything is in testing, and the opening to third parties does not arrive until next year. In the meantime, the sensible move is to try the mode that shows the agent's plan before running it, the safest way to let it touch a real project without losing control.
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