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Ae Expression Reference — Development skill for Claude Code

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Quick reference card for After Effects expression syntax: global objects, methods, functions, and common patterns at a glance.

How to install Ae Expression Reference

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/dvschultz-adobe-hut-ae-expression-reference/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dvschultz-adobe-hut-ae-expression-reference && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dvschultz/adobe-hut/HEAD/.claude/skills/ae-expression-reference.md -o ~/.claude/skills/dvschultz-adobe-hut-ae-expression-reference/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Ae Expression Reference does

name: ae-expression-reference description: "Quick reference card for After Effects expression syntax: global objects, methods, functions, and common patterns at a glance."

AE Expression Quick Reference

A compact reference for After Effects expression syntax.

Global Objects

Object	Description
`thisComp`	Current composition
`thisLayer`	Current layer
`thisProperty`	Current property
`time`	Current time (seconds)
`value`	Prop

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