At Adobe MAX, Adobe announced that Firefly AI Assistant can plan and carry out multi-step work, let users review or edit plans, choose an AI model manually or automatically, and handle recurring tasks. Adobe also demonstrated background operation and said users can take over the resulting edits. The company presented expanded local Model Context Protocol integrations as a way for external agents to work with native projects in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. Availability remains unclear: CNET described the integrations as being in preview, while other reports said they were not yet open and Adobe planned a private test in early 2027. Adobe did not announce when the background-running assistant would be tested.