Adobe plans to let third-party AI agents control functions in its Creative Cloud applications through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), starting with local endpoints and adding cloud access later.

Users would be able to work with their preferred agent, while Adobe would decide which functions, models and algorithms to make accessible through the endpoints.

The plans sit alongside the Adobe Creative Agent, available through AI assistants within Adobe applications, and connectors that bring some of its tools into external AI services. Users can move between conversational interfaces and direct application controls.

"At the end of the day, the simplest way to get exposed to what we're doing with our agentic strategy is to use the Adobe Creative Agent in the applications. That has all the reasoning layer, the intelligence layer to understand your project, your format, what the application you're in can do, and increasingly has context of other applications, so you can just get the job done," said Deepa Subramaniam, vice president of product marketing for creative professionals, Adobe.

Subramaniam identified Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini as services where Adobe's connector tools let users begin creative tasks before moving into its applications. Presentations showed the company's own agent working within Firefly, Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator.

With planned MCP access, an external agent could operate Adobe software alongside other applications on the user's desktop. Subramaniam cited rotoscoping and image hole filling as examples of the capabilities Adobe could expose. She did not provide a complete list of the endpoints it plans to make available.

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