One on-demand bridge between AI agents and 13 ArtCraft application families. Create and edit real documents, discover native capabilities, save editable projects and export deliverables — through a native Hermes plugin, a CLI, or a stdio MCP server.
Built by kosecom. Independent integration; not an official ArtCraft or Hermes product. Applications and their licenses are separate. Third-party notice →
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Download the release ZIP, extract it, and tell your agent:
Read
START-HERE.md. Inspect this package, check my native ArtCraft CLIs, and install ART-CLI into the profile I choose. Use the Hermes plugin if available; otherwise configure stdio MCP or the CLI. Do not download software or change app permissions without asking. Verify the connection and show me which apps are ready.
You do not need all 13 apps. Use the installed subset. Missing apps are reported, not silently replaced with another app or host.
Requires native Windows or macOS and Python 3.10+. For Hermes, use its Python environment and a compatible native-plugin runtime. On macOS the interpreter is often called python3.
# Read-only check: no apps launched, no downloads, no installation.
python setup_art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" --agent hermes --check
# Install into the same explicitly selected home.
python setup_art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" --agent hermes --installChoose --agent mcp for a generated stdio configuration or --agent cli for direct commands. Follow the setup report for Hermes activation and start a new agent session. Never select another profile by accident.
GUI app installed ≠ native CLI installed. macOS may need separate official CLI assets. Setup reports missing components; it never silently downloads or installs vendor software. Dependency setup and activation →
| Work | Applications | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics & photography | VectorCraft, PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FigCraft | Vector logos, layered edits, photo adjustments, layouts |
| Page design & documents | DesignCraft, WordCraft, PdfCraft | Page layouts, text documents, supported PDF edits |
| Presentations & data | DeckCraft, GridCraft | Slide decks, spreadsheets, formulas, tabular exports |
| Motion, video & audio | EffectCraft, FilmCraft, SoundCraft | Compositions, timelines, offline processing, supported exports |
| Technical drawing | CADCraft | Drawings, geometry, supported CAD exports |
Capabilities and formats come from your installed app version, not invented commands. Search and describe the exact tool before execution.
Try: “Create a geometric logo in VectorCraft. Save an editable project and export SVG and PNG. Reopen the project and check the export.”
Or: “Inspect this workbook, update these cells, save to a new file and verify the values.” These are task examples, not a guarantee for every version, codec or export option.
Hermes: eight progressive tools, not hundreds of permanently loaded schemas.
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
art_catalog |
App inventory; explicit doctor and refresh operations |
art_search |
Paginated tool and editor-command discovery |
art_describe |
Exact schemas, arguments and invocation mapping |
art_execute |
One native action |
art_batch |
Ordered actions in the same job; prior-result references |
art_guide |
Usage and app guidance |
art_native |
Original native CLI arguments and optional stdin |
art_rpc |
Native MCP resources/prompts or configured GUI control |
CLI: the same backend without a Hermes chat. From an extracted package:
python art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" catalog
python art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" doctor
python art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" refresh --app vectorcraft
python art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" search --app vectorcraft --scope tools
python art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" guide --app vectorcraftMCP: python art.py --home "<absolute-target-home>" mcp exposes one generic art tool. Setup generates absolute interpreter/script paths. Clients must support stdio MCP and answer server ping requests. No public HTTP listener is created. The protocol is tested; compatibility with every agent UI is not claimed.
Explicit ownership, not hidden background services
- Lazy by default: registration and cached discovery do not launch apps.
- Real files: explicitly save/export, then reopen and verify the artifact.
- Owned-process cleanup: Windows Job Objects and macOS process groups isolate job-owned children. Pre-existing GUIs are not swept up by app-name kills.
- No silent edit retries: interrupted mutations may be partial. Batches are not transactions.
- No approval invention: native callbacks are not auto-granted. File roots, permissions and GUI credentials remain operator decisions.
- No private machine state in the ZIP: no vendor binaries, credentials, personal paths, live profiles or SSH routes.
Headless jobs use the actual native engine but do not automatically edit your visible document or populate “recent projects.” Open the saved native project to continue manually. GUI attachment and remote routing are separately configured advanced features. GUI control → · Architecture →
Native Windows and macOS tests cover plugin discovery, app reads, both remote directions, process lifecycle, malformed frames, cancellation, package integrity and installer behavior. An audited snapshot contained 728 native tool schemas and 6,704 editor entries across 13 apps per host.
Schema coverage is not execution coverage. These figures do not mean every editor action, GUI gesture or export combination was executed. This release includes fixes for malformed cancellation and heartbeat-response IDs. Verification and limitations →
- Upgrade: add
--upgradeto the setup installation command. Managed previous installs are backed up. - Removal: disable the Hermes plugin in its owning profile first, then
python install.py uninstall --home "<absolute-target-home>". Apps are not removed; retained data is explained in the setup guide. - Report a bug with OS, Python/agent version, app CLI version, command and redacted errors. Never attach tokens, private documents or personal configurations.
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The banner and explanation graphics were created through ART-CLI with the native VectorCraft engine. Editable sources are distributed separately with the release. They demonstrate this workflow, not a GUI session.
MIT-licensed integration code. Third-party apps and assets retain their respective licenses.