Version 1.0
A record of what Prism was at its public launch on 20 June 2026: the MCP server, the panel inside After Effects, and the tools an agent could reach on day one.
1.0 was released on 20 June 2026. This page is a record of what it was, not a description of the version you are running.
The version number starts here
The internal build line had reached 30.0 before launch. At 1.0 the panel and the server were reset onto one shared version line, so a single number describes the whole platform. Every release since has moved both together.
Two pieces
The server carried every tool and all of the logic. Your AI client connected to it over MCP; the server generated the exact script for each call, with the composition and layer in focus already baked in, and sent it over a live connection to the panel. The panel ran that script inside After Effects and returned the result.
The panel shipped no tool logic of its own. That was the point: tools could improve on the server without you reinstalling anything.
What an agent could do on day one
| Surface | Covered |
|---|---|
| Native After Effects control | animation, composition, effects and presets, expressions, layers, media and assets, project management, properties and transform, timeline, utility |
| Design-language translators | SVG imported as real shape and text layers, a motion language covering the twelve animation principles, CSS and Tailwind layout, audio |
| Core | reading the project, layer lists and layer detail, snapshots, running and batching scripts, the execution log |
An agent found tools by searching rather than loading all of them. discover_tools ranked the
registry against a plain-language query and returned what matched.
The panel
Three tabs at launch.
| Tab | What it did |
|---|---|
| MCP | Your MCP URL with a copy button, and the clients it worked with. The URL carried a revocable session token, not your licence key. |
| JSON | Exported compositions to a JSON file and imported them back — the whole project, only changed layers, or the active composition — with an optional linked file kept in sync. |
| Tools | Two audio tools that ran without an AI client: Transcribe, which returned word-level timestamps, and Analyze BPM, which placed a composition marker on every beat. |
Licence and devices
You activated the panel with a licence key, and each plan allowed a set number of devices. When a key hit that limit the panel listed the key's live activations in place, each one removable in two taps, and retried the activation on its own once a slot was free. Usage was shown as a table of name, quota and used.
The name
1.0 shipped as AE Prism, renamed from "Prism for After Effects" for launch. In 1.1 the panel became After Effects MCP, which is the name it carries in the Window → Extensions menu today.
Related
- Version 1.2 — current: the version to be running today.
- 1.1: the release after this one.
- How Prism works: the server and the panel, in detail.
- Getting set up: installing the panel today.
Version 1.1
Prism 1.1, released 3 August 2026: the panel is listed as After Effects MCP in Window → Extensions, billing webhook verification was corrected, and the server began recording how tools are used.
Troubleshooting
Fix the most common Prism issues in After Effects: connection checks, tools that do nothing, wrong-looking results, clipped glyphs, and intermittent operations.