Release notes

DataDriver v0.3.3

New

• The Agent tab works without a dev setup — it now finds its server from the installed Valet panel, shows which server it's running ("Agent server: Valet v1.0.3"), and shows an honest "Install Valet to enable the agent" step when it's missing (Valet is macOS-only for now).
• Every setup check points at its fix — failing checks for Claude Code, Node.js, Higgsfield, and Firecrawl now link the exact step in the online setup guide at data-driver.ca/setup. The checks also refresh themselves when you come back to the panel after installing something.
• Manual: new "Agent tab & AI features" chapter — what the agent can do, what it needs, and how approvals work.

Fixed

• Narration checks your Higgsfield connection before asking to spend credits — on previews, batch runs, and URL tours alike. No more confirming a spend that couldn't work.
• The ✨ Sharpen button now explains itself when Claude Code is missing instead of silently greying out.
• The focal-point editor is now honestly manual-only. Its face-detection option never worked in shipped builds and has been removed rather than left as a dead switch.

DataDriver v0.3.2

New

• Check this comp — one-click health check on the Batch tab: four sweeps over your rig (orphaned bindings, stale mappings, and more) with a verdict chip and a collapsible report that names every problem it finds.
• Archetypes, two tiers — capture reusable rigs per-project, then Promote the good ones to your shared library. Reads are project-scoped so one project's archetypes never bleed into another.
• Batch renders from the panel — start a batch render directly, with clear refusals up front and real on-disk output paths reported back when it's done.
• Tour wizard upgrades — camera columns in the preset, dwell-time conversion via a timing column, and two-phase playback arming so the wizard respects the solve before it plays.
• Trivia quiz starter — a new ready-made starter card + template asset.

Fixed

• Toast notifications render (and self-dismiss) again.
• Batch replicate resolves media against the asset library and re-runs text-fit.
• Column auto-matching no longer guesses — it refuses honestly when unsure, and the stem fallback stops stripping digits it shouldn't.
• Dots in substituted values can no longer corrupt the output file extension.
• Render output-folder probe reads the path the picker actually stored.
• A superseded panel page goes silent instead of double-driving the newer one.
• Sign-in targets the production auth host by default (carries the 0.3.1 hotfix forward).

Hotfix: v0.3.0 shipped with a dev-only auth host baked in, breaking sign-in with a network error. Sign-in and update checks now target app.data-driver.ca.

Charts row-animation, Motion mode, Seed mode, aeft facade split, reload/announce reliability

In-panel update banner + chart type-switch + replicate improvements

First hosted release — chart type-switch + replicate improvements

CameraOp v0.2.1

New

• Slot content swap — select an item in the Project panel and swap it into any slot straight from the Inspector.
• Populate slots & re-pose layout — fill empty slots from your data and re-pose an existing layout while preserving media, with loud per-slot outcomes when something can't be placed.
• Scene building, frame-all, and morphs — build scenes from sources, frame every slot, and apply/remove/promote morphs, all with dry-run previews before anything touches the comp.
• Focus read-out — inspect Focus Blur and camera depth-of-field state at a glance.
• Per-slot feel — set a slot's motion feel individually, with honest refusals for field-less entries.
• Slot playback triggers — tours can enroll a slot's in-frame trigger, so playback starts when the camera arrives.
• Verb flight recorder — every panel verb is logged to a project-scoped audit trail for easier troubleshooting.

Fixed

• Linear easing no longer crashes keyframe consumers (influence floor + true LINEAR keys).
• Frame-all survives a partial rig (missing Dolly no longer null-crashes the free camera).
• Verb-driven morphs keep the panel's morph state in sync — no more stuck "morph active".
• Re-pose derives sensible layout defaults when parameters are omitted, and flags degenerate/destructive re-poses loudly.
• Panel IPC ack-path hardening + CEF anti-throttling flags for reliability under load.

• Refine an applied tour — a new Refine strip with four dials (Framing, Life, Spacing, Pace) nudges any preset on the current comp, non-destructively; Reset returns to the preset.
• Better default framing — spatial layouts (ring, sphere, wave, scatter, random, helix) now pull back to show the composition instead of filling a single card.
• Format-anchored tours — tours anchor to a target format (resolution × aspect), with consistent format-relative spacing across every layout.
• Panel reliability — stays responsive to the automation bridge even as a background tab, and recovers cleanly from reloads.

First CameraOp release — auth gate + update banner

Valet v1.1.0

New

• Skills ship with Valet. The agent's playbooks now install themselves on panel start: driving DataDriver, authoring expressions, capturing components, decompiling comps, and debugging After Effects. Your agent follows the same practiced routines here as on a developer's machine — and they work in your own terminal Claude sessions too.
• Your edits are safe. If you've customized a skill, Valet leaves it alone and says so on the setup screen. It only updates copies it installed itself.
• The setup screen reports what it manages — for example "Skills: 5 managed (v1.1.0)" — so you always know which playbooks your agent is running.

Fixed

• Renders find your After Effects version automatically (2024 and 2025 included) instead of assuming 2026.
• Missing Firecrawl credentials now report themselves clearly instead of looking like a network failure.

Valet v1.0.3

New

• Setup guide, one click away — the setup screen now links the online guide at data-driver.ca/setup, alongside the existing install buttons.
• Renders find your After Effects version — aerender now resolves the newest installed AE automatically (2024 and 2025 included), instead of assuming 2026.

Fixed

• Missing Firecrawl credentials say so — screenshot captures without a Firecrawl login now report a clear "no credentials" error with the fix, instead of looking like a network failure.
• Batch renders with a missing aerender refuse once, cleanly, instead of failing on every row.

Valet v1.0.2

New

• One-click installs on the setup screen — when Claude Code or Node.js is missing, the check row now carries a Get Claude Code / Get Node.js button that opens the official download page in your browser.
• The setup screen re-checks itself — come back to the panel after installing and the checklist updates on its own; no more hunting for Retry or reopening the panel.

Fixed

• Asking the agent about connected panels ("is DataDriver connected?") no longer dead-ends on a permission error — the read-only panel-discovery tools are now available to the agent out of the box.

Valet v1.0.1

Fixed

• Installs now work out of the box on downloaded copies. v1.0.0's bundled render engine could be blocked by macOS Gatekeeper on files downloaded from the web; the engine is now fully portable code with no native binaries, immune to quarantine (and Intel Macs work too).
• The setup screen tells the truth about Node. It now checks for the actual node your system provides; if it's missing, you get a clear install instruction instead of a false green check.
• Clearer first-run errors. "Claude Code not found" now leads with how to install and sign in, and reminds you to reopen the panel afterward.

Valet v1.0.0

The first release of Valet — the agent concierge for After Effects.

What it is

• One signed panel that carries everything: the agent, the AE bridge, and its own MCP server. No terminal setup inside After Effects.
• Connect your own Claude Code account and Claude can see your comp, propose changes you approve, and render proof frames.
• Every write is gated behind your approval, logged, and verifiable. The bridge also powers DataDriver and CameraOp — one install serves all three.

Requirements

• macOS (Apple Silicon), After Effects 2019 or later
• Your own Claude Code account (your usage, your billing) and Node 18+