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Your AI app works inside After Effects. And shows you what it did.

Every edit comes back with an exact list of what changed. Structural changes come with pixel proof. Deliveries are checked against your own spec before they go out. Free, open source, and on your computer.

  • Tested on After Effects 2025 and 2026
  • macOS and Windows 11
  • MIT licence, no account

What makes it different

Verified, not trusted.

It wins on precision, proof and safety, not on presets. There are none: it works on your project, by your rules, and measures the result.

01 · EVERY EDIT

An exact list of what changed

Each edit is one undo step and returns the layers, properties, keyframes and expressions it touched.

~ Title › Opacity: keyframes 0 → 2
+ Title › Effects › Glow
02 · PROVEN EDITS

Pixel proof for structural changes

Un-precompose or deep-duplicate a comp: rehearsed on a scratch copy, applied only when the frames match.

Identical 5 of 5 frames
03 · PREFLIGHT

Your delivery spec, checked

Comp and render against your own spec: safe areas over time, reading speed, codecs, legal range, loudness. Timecoded findings.

✕ Title outside title-safe 00:00:02:03
04 · STRESS TEST

Worst-case text through your template

Long German, Arabic and Hebrew, CJK, emoji, huge numbers. Overflow measured in pixels; your comp left unchanged.

✕ German, long: 212 px past the box

Everything it does · Documentation

Install

Three steps.

The installers put a private Node.js, the server and the After Effects extension in your home folder, connect the AI apps you choose, and install the Surehand skills for them.

Installing, in detail

  1. Run the installer

    Mac: open the .pkg. Windows: run Setup.exe. Both install for your user only.

  2. Restart After Effects once

    Then restart any AI app that was open during the install.

  3. Ask

    In your AI app: "Check After Effects is connected, then make a 1080p comp with an animated title and show me frame 1."

Works with

The AI app you already use.

Claude Desktop and CodeChatGPT and CodexCursorVS Code (GitHub Copilot)WindsurfLM StudioAny MCP client

Each link is a setup guide for that app.

Or chat inside After Effects: the Surehand panel talks to Codex, Claude Code or Antigravity on your own sign-in. Connecting AI apps

Said plainly

Free, local, and honest about its limits.

  • Free and MIT licensed. No account, no credits.
  • Project files stay on your computer. Your AI app's provider sees your messages, tool results and frames the AI renders.
  • Full, Ask or Read-only, and Pause AI, in the Surehand panel.
  • The permissions are safeguards, not a sandbox.
  • Proofs compare sampled frames, not audio or the times between them.
  • The flash check is a pre-check, not a certified PSE test.

Read more

Documentation and source.

DocumentationOne page per feature, on the wiki GitHubSource, README and releases FAQCosts, privacy, versions PreflightWrite a delivery spec Proven editsHow the pixel proof works Report a problemOpen an issue on GitHub

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