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Flue - Control Desktop Software

Let agents control software, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Autodesk 3DS Max, Blender, Unity, Houdini, and Microsoft Office.

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Rank

Safety

Downloads

5.9k

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Version

1.0.18

Source

CLAWHUB

About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 5.9K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/9/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

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Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 9, 2026
Adoption signal: 5.9K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 9, 2026
Latest release: 1.0.18release · observed May 9, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17f1pzxf42hey94vjhyd81z1n85r39x:flue

Install using `clawhub skill install s17f1pzxf42hey94vjhyd81z1n85r39x:flue` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/sfkislev/flue before using production credentials.

Contract: missing

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Documentation

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92,992 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.

Extracted files

3 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
name: flue
description: Let agents control software, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Autodesk 3DS Max, Blender, Unity, Houdini, and Microsoft Office. 
---

## Purpose
Flue is a local automation layer for coding agents that need to operate real desktop software such as Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, Houdini, Illustrator, InDesign, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and 3ds Max.

Flue is not an MCP server. It is simpler. It is a Python package that exposes small shell-facing bridge commands. Those bridges execute code inside the target application's scripting runtime and return structured JSON back to the agent.

> agent shell -> Flue bridge -> app scripting runtime -> JSON result

This file is a bootstrap entrypoint. Its job is to make you aware of the flue framework, and how to set it up. 

## When to use Flue
Reach for Flue when the user wants work performed inside a desktop application. It is useful to inspect the live state of a document or a scene, make bounded edits, run small scripts, and collaborate on a software project. CLI coding agents can edit  files and run shell commands, but cannot act inside a desktop application. Flue gives you access to software. 
Flue currently has adapters for 3DS Max, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, Blender 3D, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Houdini, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Premiere, and Unity. More software support is in the works.

## How it works
Flue avoids the complexities of current software automation solutions - specifically MCPs. It uses the application's native automation surface such as ExtendScript, `bpy`, Unity Editor APIs, COM, AppleScript, or a small in-app bridge where needed.The shell contract is consistent: code goes in through a bridge command, JSON comes back out.
The project is open-source and reviewable on GitHub and PyPI.It ships app-specific documentation.

## Flue in technical terms
Flue is a shell-to-application bridge. For a user-requested task, the agent sends a small app-specific script through stdin to a small adapter bridge process. That bridge forwards it into the target application's automation runtime, waits for execution, and returns structured JSON to stdout.

Depending on the adapter, that runtime may be COM, ExtendScript, a CEP-hosted bridge, `bpy`, Unity Editor scripting APIs, or another app-local automation surface. Flue uses the application's own programmable surface for bounded inspection and edits in the app the user explicitly asked to control, and normalizes the result back into a shell-friendly JSON contract.

```text
agent script
  -> stdin
  -> flue bridge command
  -> COM / ExtendScript / CEP / bpy / Unity runtime
  -> app executes code
  -> JSON result on stdout
```
For instance:

```text
@'
var doc = app.documents.add(1200, 800, 72, "Flue Shapes");

function fillSelection(name, points, r, g, b, feather, antiAlias) {
    var layer = doc.artLay

_meta.json

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  "slug": "flue",
  "version": "1.0.18",
  "publishedAt": 1778368149461
}

skill-card.md

## Description:

Let agents control software, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Autodesk 3DS Max, Blender, Unity, Houdini, and Microsoft Office.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[sfkislev](https://clawhub.ai/user/sfkislev)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

External users and developers use Flue to let an agent inspect live state and make bounded, user-directed edits inside supported desktop applications. It is intended for creative, technical, game-development, and office-document workflows where the user has explicitly requested work in a specific application.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: Flue can execute user-provided scripts inside professional desktop applications, so unintended or destructive changes could affect open documents, scenes, or projects.

Mitigation: Use Flue only for explicit, user-requested tasks in a specific application, prefer small inspectable steps, and avoid destructive actions unless the user approves them.

Risk: Installation and setup add desktop application integrations on the user's machine.

Mitigation: Inspect the linked Flue project first, pin a reviewed version or use isolation when appropriate, and run installation or setup only after explicit current-session approval.

## Reference(s):

- [ClawHub Skill Page](https://clawhub.ai/sfkislev/skills/flue)
- [Flue GitHub Project](https://github.com/SFKislev/flue)
- [Flue on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/flue)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [Guidance, Shell commands, Code, Configuration]

**Output Format:** [Markdown guidance with inline shell commands and code examples; bridge results are structured JSON.]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [Requires explicit user approval before installation, setup, or destructive desktop-application actions.]

## Skill Version(s):

1.0.18 (source: server release metadata)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

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