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Progress docs per craftrules standards/progress-docs.md: target-app parity, gaps, roadmap with alpha gate, readiness by audience (full / mainstream / essentials) with Opus 5.5 hours, and feature, format, hardware, UI and localization parity docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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# Expressions and scripting parity
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (first expressions and scripting checklist against After Effects 2026 26.5) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
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Expressions and ExtendScript are how After Effects work is automated and how much of it is
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built: rigs, templates, studio pipelines. They are also what carries over from After Effects
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today, while `.aep` projects can't. Architecture: [architecture.md](architecture.md) §5 and §5a;
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extension points: [plugins.md](plugins.md); overall numbers:
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[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md).
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**Breadth ≈ 93%, ready ≈ 65%** (estimated). The object models are written from Adobe's public
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Expression Language Reference and Scripting Guide (behaviour only, AGENTS.md §2) and tested with
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our own scripts; no real-world script library has been run against both apps.
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| Feature | After Effects 2026 | EffectCraft | Status | Evidence / gap |
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| Expression language | JavaScript engine (default) and Legacy ExtendScript | JavaScript (boa) with legacy array maths (`value + [10, 0]`) | good | `crates/expr` tests; no separate Legacy ExtendScript engine mode |
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| Expression object model | `thisComp`, `thisLayer`, `wiggle`, `loopOut`, `valueAtTime`, `sampleImage`, `footage()`, text style API… | Same members, from the reference | good | `crates/expr/src/tests.rs`; behaviour of edge cases unmeasured (G1) |
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| Expression editing | Inline field, error bar, pick whip, Expression Language menu, external editors | Inline field that grows, error bar, pick whips (property and value), language menu | partial | External editor support (#364) |
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| Expression performance | Cached, multi-frame | Per-thread boa contexts | unknown | No benchmark |
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| Scripting object model | `app`, `Project`, items, layers, properties, keys, eases, render queue, `TextDocument`, `Shape`, markers, `File`/`Folder`, `Socket`, `app.settings` | Same classes, edits run through undoable engine commands; match names table | good | `crates/script` tests (≈ 10 test files) |
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| ScriptUI | Dialogs, palettes, dockable panels, resource strings, `onDraw` / ScriptUIGraphics | Same, dockable panels reopen at launch | good | `ui_scriptui`, `tests_ui*` |
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| Scripts menu, ScriptUI Panels folder | yes | yes | same | [plugins.md](plugins.md) |
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| Startup / Shutdown folders | yes | not run | missing | plugins.md |
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| `#include`, `#target` directives | yes | a script starting with one doesn't parse | missing | plugins.md; common in real scripts |
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| `.jsxbin` | yes | no | out of scope | No public specification |
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| Keyboard shortcuts for scripts | yes | no | missing | plugins.md |
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| Command-line rendering `aerender` | yes | `effectcraft-cli render`, `script`, `exec` | same purpose | `apps/effectcraft-cli` |
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| Essential Graphics scripting hooks | `addToMotionGraphicsTemplate…` | yes (M13.7) | good | — |
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| Agent control (MCP, control channel, every command) | none | yes | beyond | [agents.md](agents.md), [control-protocol.md](control-protocol.md); `list_effects` omits parameter types and ranges (#441) |
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| Real-world script corpus | — | none run | gap | Run popular free scripts (the 11 sample scripts After Effects ships are a good start, run as behaviour tests, never copied) |
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## Estimate
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**≈ 20–40 h**: `#include` / `#target` and Startup / Shutdown folders 4–8 h, script shortcuts 2–4 h,
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a corpus of public scripts and expressions with the fixes it finds 10–20 h, an expression
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performance benchmark 4–8 h.
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## Revision history
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-10-10 | major | First expressions and scripting checklist |
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