Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics application. Its developer platform offers scripting APIs, UXP plugins, CEP extensions, and a C++ SDK for building custom integrations and automating workflows.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Adobe Illustrator the way a machine reads it — 84 machine-readable artifacts across 11 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Adobe Illustrator scores 64.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Adobe Illustrator
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Adobe Illustrator. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 11
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Adobe Illustrator Plugin SDK
The Adobe Illustrator Plugin SDK enables developers to build native C++ plug-ins for Illustrator on Windows and macOS. The SDK opens the entire application to developer control,...
Adobe Illustrator CEP Extensions API
The Adobe Illustrator Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) allows developers to build panels and extensions using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. CEP extensions run inside Illustrator...
Adobe Illustrator Application API
Access to the Illustrator application object, including preferences, version information, and global settings.
Adobe Illustrator Artboards API
Manage artboards within an Illustrator document, including creating, resizing, reordering, and removing artboards.
Adobe Illustrator Documents API
Manage Illustrator documents, including opening, creating, saving, closing, and exporting documents in various formats.
Adobe Illustrator Graphic Styles API
Manage graphic styles that can be applied to artwork for consistent appearance across multiple objects.
Adobe Illustrator Layers API
Create, manage, and manipulate layers within an Illustrator document, including visibility, locking, and ordering.
Adobe Illustrator Path Items API
Create and manipulate vector path items, including shapes, lines, and complex paths with anchor points and control handles.
Adobe Illustrator Swatches API
Manage color swatches, including spot colors, process colors, gradients, and patterns stored in the document.
Adobe Illustrator Symbols API
Manage symbol definitions and symbol instances, enabling reuse of artwork across documents.
Adobe Illustrator Text Frames API
Create and manipulate text frames, including point text, area text, and text on a path, with full typography control.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Adobe Illustrator Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Adobe Illustrator Finops
FINOPSFeatures 10
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Vector Document Automation
Create, modify, and export vector artwork programmatically via scripting APIs.
UXP Plugin Framework
Build modern plugins using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Adobe Spectrum UI components.
Text Manipulation
Create, edit, and format text frames, paragraphs, and character styles.
Path and Shape Operations
Create and manipulate vector paths, compound shapes, and bezier curves.
Color Management
Work with swatches, gradients, patterns, and color spaces programmatically.
Artboard Management
Create, resize, reorder, and export individual artboards.
SVG Export
Export artwork as optimized SVG for web and interactive use.
Data-Driven Graphics
Generate artwork variations from data using variables and data sets.
Batch Processing
Process multiple files with consistent operations using Actions and scripts.
Symbol Libraries
Create, manage, and reuse symbol instances across documents.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Adobe Illustrator Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Adobe Illustrator API Rules
SPECTRALAdobe Illustrator API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 15
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Application
JSON SCHEMAArtboardCreate
JSON SCHEMAArtboard
JSON SCHEMAColor
JSON SCHEMADocumentCreate
JSON SCHEMADocument
JSON SCHEMAExportOptions
JSON SCHEMALayerCreate
JSON SCHEMALayer
JSON SCHEMAPathItemCreate
JSON SCHEMAPathItem
JSON SCHEMAPathPoint
JSON SCHEMAPreferences
JSON SCHEMATextFrameCreate
JSON SCHEMATextFrame
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JSON Structure 15
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Adobe Illustrator Scripting Application Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Artboard Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Artboard Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Color Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Document Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Document Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Export Options Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Layer Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Layer Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Path Item Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Path Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Path Point Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Preferences Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Text Frame Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAdobe Illustrator Scripting Text Frame Structure
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Examples 15
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Design System Automation
Generate icon sets, component libraries, and design tokens from data.
Brand Asset Production
Batch produce branded materials with consistent styling and color palettes.
Print Production
Automate print-ready output with bleed, crop marks, and color separation.
SVG Asset Pipeline
Export optimized SVGs for web applications from Illustrator artwork.
Data Visualization
Create charts, maps, and infographics from data using scripting.
Custom Tool Panels
Build UXP plugin panels for specialized workflows and asset management.
Solutions 3
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Illustrator UXP Plugins
Modern plugin platform for extending Illustrator with JavaScript and HTML.
Illustrator Scripting
Automation via JavaScript, AppleScript, or VBScript for batch workflows.
Illustrator C++ SDK
Native plugin SDK for performance-critical tools and filters.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Adobe Illustrator — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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