Adobe plans to let customers use their preferred AI agents, including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, with its creative software, but has not committed to making every feature accessible.

Local Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations previewed by Adobe will connect outside agents to Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects, with a private beta planned for early 2027. Outside agents will be able to edit native project files on customers' computers while preserving layers, sequences and other editable elements.

"I can't give you the absolutes right now. This stuff is still sort of well into development. I can give you the intent, which is not to block people or trick people or limit people into only working in certain ways. The nice thing about putting the MCP endpoints in our tools is, if you're using them, you have our tools, right? And you're still our customer. We're still providing you with value," said Ely Greenfield, CTO & SVP Creative Products, Adobe.

"I think the big message today is we are really leaning into that, both with the agents that we are bringing into our tools, but also with how we are bringing creative capabilities, technologies, tools, and workflows to wherever customers are doing their creative work. Whether that's in our tools, whether that's through interfaces they're going to build with Graph, or whether that's through the agentic portals, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude. Our job has always been to power creatives in their workflows. We still will do that, even though the workflows will start to move out into other places, which is great," said Greenfield.

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