Premiere-MCP-IMT + SKILLS — Premiere Pro for AI agents

Premiere-MCP-IMT + SKILLS — Premiere Pro for AI agents

Let an AI assistant (Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Google Antigravity or any MCP client) work inside your running Adobe Premiere Pro: read the project and its sequences, cut, trim, move and ripple clips, apply effects, transitions and keyframes, add markers and captions, reframe, check frames and export — from plain language.

Every Adobe UI language · a large skills library · built for generative features. Premiere-MCP-IMT works with every UI language Adobe ships, comes with a large skills library and is built for Adobe's generative features — Generative Extend, Generative Media, Object Mask, Enhance Speech, transcripts and captions, Auto Reframe, Search, the AI Assistant.

Two parts, made to work together:

• The MCP server — about 440 Premiere operations behind nine tools; writes are verified by reading Premiere back; works on every Premiere UI language (verified live); no telemetry.
• The skill (skills/pr, also served by the pr_skill tool, so it works in any client) — how to drive Premiere safely, where scripting ends, and how to use Premiere's own AI tools: Generative Extend, the Generative Media Tool (video, sound effects, music), Object Mask, Speech to Text and Paper Edit, captions, Enhance Speech and stem separation, Search, the AI Assistant, Auto Reframe, Scene Edit Detection, Morph Cut — plus recipes that combine them and the gotchas.

Built for localized Premiere, not just English. Most Premiere MCP servers and agent skills assume the English UI — on a German, Chinese or Russian install their effect, transition and parameter names stop matching. Premiere-MCP-IMT finds components by matchName and translates English effect, transition and parameter names through Premiere's own UI dictionaries, so the same agent and the same skill work on all ten UI languages Premiere ships — verified live.

By Immersive Media Technologies.

macOS and Windows · Premiere Pro 2024–2026 — verified live on macOS (26.5) and on Windows 11 ARM (26.5.2, Claude Desktop from the Microsoft Store) · Node.js 20.19+ (none needed with the Claude Desktop extension).

Caution

This edits real Premiere projects, and scripted undo covers only some edits — work on a copy. Project content (names, transcripts, markers, frames) goes to the AI service you use. Premiere's generative tools spend your Adobe credits; the agent asks before starting one. Raw ExtendScript is off unless you turn it on.

What you can ask for

• "List every clip shorter than 12 frames and every gap in the active sequence."
• "Tighten the pauses in this interview to a third of a second and put a Morph Cut on the jump cuts where the camera is locked off." (skill)
• "Make 9:16 and 1:1 versions of this edit and check the titles stay out of the TikTok UI zones."
• "Blur the face of the man on the left for the whole shot." (skill: you click the subject with Object Mask, the agent does the rest)
• "The music in this interview was recorded on location — get rid of it and score it again under the dialogue." (skill)
• "Mark every beat of this track and lay the selects to it, two beats per shot."

The agent combines the operations itself and checks the sequence between steps; the skill tells it which Premiere AI tool fits the job, what it costs and where it breaks.

Install

You need Premiere Pro running on this computer and the connector — a small CEP extension inside Premiere that the server talks to. The agent installs it for you on first use (pr_install_connector, it asks first; then quit and reopen Premiere), or the installer below does.

Client	How
Claude Desktop	download premiere-mcp-imt.mcpb, double-click, Install (Windows: drag it onto Settings → Extensions). No Node needed.
Cursor	Add to Cursor — one click: Cursor opens and writes the config (or put the snippet below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
Google Antigravity	Settings → Customizations → Installed MCP Servers → View raw config → add the snippet below.
ChatGPT (remote servers only)	on the Premiere machine: npx -p @immersive-media-technologies/premiere-mcp-imt premiere-mcp-imt-chatgpt — it starts the server behind a tunnel and prints the URL to paste into ChatGPT.
Any MCP client	the snippet below in its mcpServers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "premiere": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@immersive-media-technologies/premiere-mcp-imt"]
    }
  }
}

From source, with a live self-test (the route we use):

git clone https://github.com/Immersive-Media-Technologies/premiere-mcp-imt.git
cd premiere-mcp-imt && ./install.sh        # Windows: .\install.ps1

The installer checks Premiere, Node and FFmpeg, builds, installs the connector (asks first), asks the running Premiere whether the connector answers, and — after asking — writes the entry into Claude Desktop's, Cursor's and Antigravity's configs, backing them up.

If something does not connect

• pr_verify says the connector does not answer: quit Premiere completely after the connector was installed and open it again; close any open Premiere dialog (a modal dialog blocks scripting). premiere-mcp-imt --diagnose-cep checks the files, the debug flags and Premiere's signature log.
• The connector is unsigned: CEP must allow unsigned extensions (PlayerDebugMode = 1 for CSXS 9–14; on Windows a String (REG_SZ) value under HKCU\Software\Adobe\CSXS.<n>). The installers set it.
• spawn npx ENOENT on macOS: GUI apps do not see your shell PATH — put the absolute path of a Node from Homebrew or nodejs.org in place of npx (nvm's Node is invisible to them).
• Loudness, silence (detect_silence), beat and scene-change analysis need FFmpeg (brew install ffmpeg, winget install Gyan.FFmpeg).
• Windows, Claude Desktop from the Microsoft Store: the Store app's registry writes are sandboxed. If Premiere does not load the connector after pr_install_connector, run powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File scripts\install-cep.ps1 once from a normal PowerShell in a source checkout (or use install.ps1).
• premiere-mcp-imt --doctor checks the local install without reading a project.

How it stays safe

Verified writes	edits read Premiere back and report verified only when the readback matches; anything else is reported as unconfirmed. An edit whose outcome is unknown pauses further edits until the agent has looked at the project and acknowledged it — a retry never applies a change twice.
Undo where Premiere records it, checkpoints elsewhere	Edits that Premiere records in its history (effects added or removed, cuts, inserts) report undoSteps and can be reverted with undo — each step is checked against Premiere's undo stack (experimental QE). Property and marker writes are not recorded: create_sequence_checkpoint clones the sequence before a risky edit; diff_sequence_snapshots shows exactly what changed (added, removed, moved, trimmed clips with frame deltas).
Plan → preview → apply	plan_* operations only compute; compound edits apply only with the confirmation token of their preview, unchanged.
Read-only mode	PR_MCP_READONLY=true — inspection and exports only; the project cannot change.
No raw scripting by default	pr_execute_script exists only with PR_MCP_ENABLE_SCRIPT=true.
No telemetry	the server sends nothing anywhere.

Tools

Tool	Purpose
pr_verify	connector, open project and active sequence — the first call
pr_get_sequence	tracks and clips with their node_id, times and speed
pr_catalog / pr_do / pr_batch	discover the ~440 operations (44 categories) and run one or several
pr_export_frame	a frame of the sequence as PNG — the agent's eye
pr_save_project	save
pr_install_connector	check / install the connector inside Premiere
pr_skill	the agent skill: the router and its references
pr_execute_script	raw ExtendScript — only when enabled

PR_MCP_FACADE=0 lists every operation as its own tool instead (more than 600K tokens of definitions — beyond most context windows; the nine tools cost about 1.5K).

Variable	Default	Meaning
PR_MCP_READONLY	off	true → inspection and exports only
PR_MCP_ENABLE_SCRIPT	off	true → pr_execute_script (arbitrary ExtendScript)
PR_MCP_FACADE	on	0 → every operation as a separate tool
PREMIERE_MCP_CAPABILITIES	—	explicit profile, e.g. inspect,edit,export,filesystem; wins over the switches
PREMIERE_TEMP_DIR	OS temp	the connector's file mailbox
PREMIERE_UXP_TOKEN	—	enables the optional UXP bridge (with the UXP plugin in Premiere) and its *_uxp operations

The skill

skills/pr/SKILL.md is a short router the agent reads first (pr_skill with no arguments); it points to the one reference the task needs (pr_skill {doc}):

SKILL.md	the tools, the order of work (state → checkpoint → operate → verify by values, then by frame), addressing (node ids, source vs sequence time, selection-driven operations, localized Premiere) and a table of what scripts cannot do in Premiere with the reference for each.
references/generative.md	Generative Extend, the Generative Media Tool (video with first/last/reference frames, sound effects with a voice guide, soundscape, music), Firefly Boards → sequence, partner models, credits per second.
references/masking.md	Object Mask, why a new mask "does nothing", Clip vs Frame keyframes, Sharpness / Expansion, where mask data lives and how it goes missing.
references/speech-text.md	Speech to Text, text-based editing of pauses and fillers, Paper Edit, single-word captions, and the server's word-timeline planners (fillers, pauses, retakes, bleeps, captions).
references/audio.md	Enhance Speech, stem separation (beta), ducking by UI and by keyframes, Remix, FFmpeg analysis.
references/timeline-automation.md	Auto Reframe, Scene Edit Detection, Morph Cut (and why it exports as a dissolve), Color Match, Warp Stabilizer.
references/search-assistant.md	the Search panel (Media Intelligence, similar frames, sound search) and the AI Assistant beta next to an agent.
references/combos.md	eleven recipes that combine tools: a generated shot between two clips, interview cleanup, a tracked face blur, storyboard to sequence, removing location music, social versions, silence and beat cutting.
references/gotchas.md	availability by region and licence, credits, beta vs release, handoff to colour and sound, export, scripting limits that look like bugs.

Clients with their own skill support can load the folder directly (e.g. copy skills/pr into ~/.claude/skills/).

Why this one

Several Premiere MCP servers exist; they differ in what the model sees, what it knows and what it sends home. As of 2026-10-26:

	Premiere-MCP-IMT	premiere-pro-mcp (upstream)	AdobePremiereProMCP	Adobe_Premiere_Pro_MCP	flue
Tools the model sees by default	9, over ~440 operations	the whole catalog (~440 tools)	74 (profile standard) of ~1,060	5, over 283 operations	none — the agent pipes ExtendScript
Knowledge of Premiere's AI tools	skill with 8 references + recipes	2 skills (editing, development)	7 workflow skills	1 skill	1 skill (scripting)
Non-English Premiere	every UI language (all ten), verified live	English and es-ES measured	not stated	not stated	not stated
Telemetry	none	PostHog, off unless a key is set	none found	on by default (opt-out)	none mentioned
Connector install	by the agent, with consent; installers with a live self-test	CLI flag	build from source (Go, Rust, Python)	CLI flag	pip + setup
Clients	Claude Desktop (.mcpb), Cursor, Antigravity, ChatGPT gateway, any MCP client	npm, .mcpb, Codex / Claude Code plugins	build from source	npm, plugins, .mcpb	CLI + skill
License	Apache-2.0	MIT	MIT	MIT	MIT

What we changed in the upstream code, besides the skill and the packaging: component and property lookup by matchName and English names translated through Premiere's own UI dictionaries (on a localized Premiere every opacity, motion, keyframe and volume operation of upstream failed), split_clip that cuts the clip you name (upstream cut track 0), no telemetry, stdio only, and a compact tool surface.

Releases

Each version is described on the Releases page; every change is in CHANGELOG.md.

• v1.1.1 · 2026-10-28 — Premiere's home screen: pr_verify says when no project is open, and an edit tried without a project no longer pauses the edits after it.
• v1.1.0 · 2026-10-28 — built on premiere-pro-mcp 1.26.0: every edit read back from Premiere, about 60 more operations, the UI-language layer carried into the new code; reinstall the connector with pr_install_connector.
• v1.0.2 · 2026-10-28 — descriptions everywhere: every Adobe UI language, a large skills library, built for Adobe's generative features.
• v1.0.1 · 2026-10-28 — product name Premiere-MCP-IMT (was PR-MCP-IMT); the MCP Registry entry also lists the npm package; the package is on npm from 1.0.0.
• v1.0.0 · 2026-10-28 — every Premiere UI language (English names translated through Premiere's own dictionaries; verified live), honest results for unknown effects, colour correction and LUTs, Apache-2.0.
• v0.1.0 · 2026-10-26 — first public release: the Premiere agent skill, nine-tool surface, pr_skill, connector install by the agent, Claude Desktop extension, installers with a live self-test, ChatGPT gateway.

npm test runs offline — no Premiere needed.

License

Apache License 2.0 — © Immersive Media Technologies.

• Free to use, modify and distribute, commercial use included.
• Attribution is required. Every redistribution of this software or of a work derived from it must carry the notice from NOTICE: Premiere-MCP-IMT by Immersive Media Technologies — https://github.com/Immersive-Media-Technologies.
• No warranty.

Third-party notices (upstream MIT code): THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md. Adobe, Premiere Pro and Firefly are trademarks of Adobe Inc.; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe.