Make Essential Graphics fully accessible to scripting and AI

Please expand the Essential Graphics Panel scripting API to support:

• creating and managing groups and comments
• reordering, moving and removing controllers
• reading the complete panel hierarchy
• configuring Source Text “Edit Properties” options
• accessing other Essential Graphics functionality currently available only through the user interface

These features are essential for workflows that generate or maintain MOGRTs at scale, including third-party localization and rendering platforms, data-driven video tools and organizations managing large numbers of complex templates. Groups and comments are not merely visual formatting: they provide the structure and instructions needed to make complex templates understandable. In some workflows, they are essential parts of the template interface rather than optional organizational features.

Adobe’s AI Assistant and MCP-based tools can already automate many After Effects tasks through the currently exposed scripting interfaces. However, they cannot fully build, restructure or validate an Essential Graphics interface when key panel functionality is unavailable through the API. Expanding the API would remove this limitation and enable end-to-end template creation, maintenance and validation.