softwire 0.1.5

Local scripting bridges for controlling professional creative software from a shell agent.

Agents Running Software

A tiny bridge that lets your coding harness drive professional desktop software - Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, and more - directly from the shell.

SoftWire gives agentic harnesses - Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and the likes - direct access to the scripting APIs inside professional desktop software. One pip install softwire && softwire setup covers many apps across Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, Microsoft Office, and game engines.

SoftWire is not an MCP server. The agent sends a script through a small bridge command, the bridge runs it inside the app's own automation runtime, and the app returns JSON.

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

This is done without brittle screenshots and without schema definitions. The bridge exposes the scripting layer already built into each application.

Installation

pip install softwire

Confirm the installation and see the available commands:

softwire

If softwire is not on PATH in the current shell, use:

py -m softwire.cli where

Then register SoftWire with your local agent harness:

softwire setup

This detects your harnesses, registers SoftWire with them, and installs a local SoftWire docs bundle into each detected harness directory so the agent can read the docs directly from its own skill or rules area.

To inspect what SoftWire found on this machine:

softwire harnesses
softwire where

Current Adapters

App	Adapter	Runtime
Photoshop	photoshop_adapter/	COM to ExtendScript
InDesign	indesign_adapter/	COM to ExtendScript
Illustrator	illustrator_adapter/	COM to ExtendScript
Word	word_adapter/	COM object model
Excel	excel_adapter/	COM object model
PowerPoint	powerpoint_adapter/	COM object model
Premiere Pro	premiere_adapter/	CEP localhost to ExtendScript
After Effects	after_effects_adapter/	CEP localhost to ExtendScript
Audition	audition_adapter/	CEP localhost to ExtendScript
Blender	blender_adapter/	Addon localhost to bpy
Unity	unity_adapter/	Editor package to UnityEditor and UnityEngine
3ds Max	3dsmax_adapter/	Startup Python localhost to MAXScript
Houdini	houdini_adapter/	Startup Python localhost to hou

Documentation for Agents

The source distribution and installed package include setup notes, adapter references, agent instructions, bridge contracts, coexistence guidance, and known issues. After softwire setup, each supported harness also gets its own local SoftWire docs tree so the agent does not need to shell back into the Python package just to find the docs.