Agent skill · creative production · sfkislev
flue
Let agents control software, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Autodesk 3DS Max, Blender, Unity, Houdini, and Microsoft Office.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a Python package that enables agents to execute scripts in various desktop applications, fundamentally extending their capabilities.
What it needs
Requires python installed locally. About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-01. 65 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Flue is a local automation layer for coding agents that need to operate real desktop software such as Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, Houdini, Illustrator, InDesign, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and 3ds Max. Flue is not an MCP server. It is simpler. It is a Python package that exposes small shell-facing bridge commands. Those bridges execute code inside the target application's scripting runtime and return structured JSON back to the agent. agent shell -> Flue bridge -> app scripting runtime -> JSON result This file is a bootstrap entrypoint. Its job is to make you aware of the Flue framework and how to set it up. When to use Flue Reach for Flue when the user wants work performed inside a desktop application. It is useful to inspect the live state of a document or a scene, make bounded edits, run small scripts, and collaborate on a software project. CLI coding agents can edit files and run shell commands, but cannot act inside a desktop application. Flue gives you access to software. Flue currently has adapters for 3DS Max, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, Blender 3D, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Houdini, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Premiere, and Unity. More software support is in the works. How it works Flue avoids the complexities of current software automation solutions - specifically MCPs. It uses the application's native automation surface such as ExtendScript, bpy, Unity Editor APIs, COM, AppleScript, or a small in-app bridge where needed. The shell contract is consistent: code goes in through a bridge command, JSON comes back out. The project is open-source and reviewable on GitHub and PyPI. It ships app-specific documentation. Flue in technical terms Flue is a shell-to-application bridge. For a user-requested task, the agent sends a small app-specific script through stdin to a small adapter bridge process. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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