
Kition
Desktop AI workspace for connected documents, structured tables, editable designs, whiteboards, visual workflows and reviewable AI agents.
Motion graphics with compositions, keyframes, masks and effects, a free After Effects alternative.
Kition Video · Video Cluster
effect builds motion graphics: compositions, layers, keyframes, effects, masks and text. It swaps timelines with editors and exports MP4 without touching your saved project.
Each building is something this kit really does. Click a building to read about it.
Keyframe Launchpad
Compositions, precomps, layers, keyframes and markers.
Title Fireworks
Text, shape, solid and null layers with layer styles.
Mask Foundry
Masks and track mattes.
Roto Lab
Roto tools and face model management.
Timeline Dock
Import and export XML, FCPXML, OTIO, EDL, AAF and OMF; save a frame as a layered PSD; render MP4 from a scratch copy.
The holograms over the city. Each one only uses what the kit can do today; the ones marked Template open a published Kition template.
Example
A composition with text and shape layers moving on keyframes, rendered to MP4.
Uses: Compositions and keyframes · Text · Timelines in and out
Example
A name bar that wipes in through a mask, with layer styles, ready to drop on any interview.
Uses: Text · Masks and mattes
Example
Roto tools cut the subject out, and a track matte keeps the glow behind them.
Uses: Roto · Masks and mattes
Products built with this kit. Same size for every settlement, no paid spots.

Desktop AI workspace for connected documents, structured tables, editable designs, whiteboards, visual workflows and reviewable AI agents.
These are real commands from this kit’s engine. An agent sends them over the Kit Harness Protocol and gets the edited file back.
comp.newStart a compositionlayer.newSolidAdd a solid layerlayer.newTextAdd a text layerlayer.addMaskAdd a masklayer.precomposePrecompose layersfile.importTimelineImport a timelineKition ships an MCP server for its kits. Run it over stdio against a folder, without the app open, and your agent gets tools like effect_inspect, effect_run and effect_check for every kit.
# Claude Code
claude mcp add kition -- kition-kits-mcp --workspace /path/to/your/folder
# Any MCP client (mcpServers config)
{
"mcpServers": {
"kition": {
"command": "kition-kits-mcp",
"args": ["--workspace", "/path/to/your/folder"]
}
}
}The kition-kits-mcp binary comes with Kition. Without a licence key it runs in development and evaluation mode.
.keffect.xml.fcpxml.otio.edl.aafKition launches with 1,300+ official Skills, at least 100 for every kit, each one run for real with a preview image. Browse them on kition.ai.
Browse Skills on kition.aiYes. Kition is open source under Apache-2.0 and the software is free. There are no personal subscriptions, memberships or ads; you only pay for AI compute if you choose hosted AI.
Yes. Every Kition kit speaks the Kit Harness Protocol (KHP), so an agent can open a file, run commands such as comp.new, layer.newSolid, and save the result. MCP connects AI to tools; KHP lets AI operate professional software.
Kition effect saves .keffect. It also opens .xml, .fcpxml, .otio, .edl, .aaf.
Kition effect is in Beta. The kit version shipped with Kition right now is 0.3.17.
KitionAI/kition-effect
crates/kition-kits/src/manager.rsdocs/kit-sdk.mdsrc/lib/sdk/kits/effect.tskits/kits.lock.json