# About AEPilot

> AEPilot is a local-first adaptive motion agent inside Adobe After Effects, built for motion designers who want conversational control without a black-box workflow.

AEPilot started from a simple product question: what would an AI assistant look like if it behaved like a careful collaborator inside the composition a motion designer already has open? The answer is a docked After Effects assistant that reads project state, uses explicit tools, previews changes, preserves recovery boundaries, and verifies the result instead of pretending that generated code is the finished work.

The product is for motion designers who know the visual result they want but do not want to search menus, rebuild repetitive animation, or translate every idea into scripting syntax. It is also intended for experienced After Effects users and studios that need provider choice, prompt visibility, local execution, and a clear explanation of what the agent changed.

## Product principles

- **Inspect before changing.** Project indexes are hints; the live target is resolved again before tool calls.
- **Keep the user in control.** Review mode previews mutations, and each applied mutation has an honest After Effects undo or recovery boundary.
- **Stay provider-neutral.** The open-source core is BYOK-first and can work with compatible local endpoints.
- **Keep project execution local.** Tools run through the local CEP and ExtendScript bridge inside After Effects.
- **Verify outcomes.** A completed turn includes a readable account of the resulting project state.

AEPilot is developed openly under the MIT License. The current public site describes a private preview rather than a generally available release. Compatibility and model coverage remain evidence-based: supported environments are only claimed after they pass the relevant build, automated, and real-host checks.

## Project resources

- [AEPilot source repository](https://github.com/Qwinty/AEPilot)
- [Contact and support](https://aepilot.info/contact)
- [Privacy details](https://aepilot.info/privacy)
- [Agent instructions](https://aepilot.info/llms.txt)