Seven Adobe-style apps, from Photoshop to Premiere, were cloned with Opus 5.5 in four days and open-sourced
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A developer group called ArtCraft ran fleets of Claude Opus 5.5 agents to rebuild seven Adobe apps and put them on GitHub as open source: PhotoCraft (Photoshop), VectorCraft (Illustrator), FilmCraft (Premiere Pro), EffectCraft (After Effects), DesignCraft (InDesign), LightCraft (Lightroom) and PrintCraft (Acrobat). The repositories were created between September 30 and October 1 and had 436 GitHub stars by October 3. The post that spread the news passed 47,000 likes.
The code is mostly Rust under MIT or Apache-2.0 licenses and runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser through WebAssembly. The builders say it is a clean-room effort based only on public documentation and observed behavior, with no Adobe code. The parity figures are the project's own: about 94% for the After Effects clone, 100% menu coverage but 65% pixel match for the Photoshop clone, and 35% for the Acrobat clone. PhotoCraft is in early alpha and not yet a replacement for daily professional work.