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      "Title": "UXP bridge panel never registers: manifest.json missing manifestVersion, main points at main.js",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`uxp-plugin/manifest.json` never registers its panel entrypoint, so the UXP bridge cannot load and `photoshop_neural_filter` is unreachable on a clean install of v1.5.0.\n\n## Symptom\n\nAfter `Add Plugin` → `Load` in UXP Developer Tool, the plugin shows **State: Watching** (so the manifest parses and the plugin loads), but in Photoshop:\n\n- `Plugins → Photoshop MCP UXP Bridge` is **greyed out** with an empty submenu\n- the panel is absent from `Window → Extensions`\n- `photoshop_get_capabi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-08T15:55:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "JSX bridge broken",
      "Excerpt": "Claude says:\nConfirmed: execute_script writes still don't land even after the restart — the JSX bridge in this build is just broken.\n\nUpdate: Claude found this out when I told him to fix the JSX bridge:\nThe \"undefined\" symptom was not a dead bridge — it's the wrapper's documented contract: your code runs inside an IIFE, so you must use an explicit return. A bare trailing expression or an assignment like app.activeDocument.activeLayer.name = \"X\" evaluates to undefined, so the result is \"undefined",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-19T09:14:46.000Z",
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      "Title": "JSON modification described for Claude Desktop but not Claude Code/the Claude SDK",
      "Excerpt": "I see in the readme it shows what JSON file where to add what to for Claude Desktop, but not for Claude Code/the Claude SDK, which I assume is something different because the directory given for Claude Desktop doesn't exist on my computer, and I've already installed two other MCP servers. But I don't remember exactly how I did it, and now I guess I have to go back and retrace my steps to add this one..",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-18T21:43:17.000Z",
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      "Title": "\"not_authenticated\" when I am authenticated.",
      "Excerpt": "I ran `npx -p @alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp photoshop-mcp-ui`, it gave me a webpage for selecting my account, I selected Anthropic, then \"Uses your account\", and it said \"not_authenticated.\" I already am authenticated, I'm using Claude on multiple accounts with a custom client using their SDK right now (Claude Code works too, or did the last time I tried--it should), but just to be sure, I ran ` claude auth login` like it said and successfully logged in and clicked \"Check connection & continue\" aga",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/17",
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      "Title": "Photoshop MCP `DoJavaScript` Broken on Photoshop 2026 (Windows)",
      "Excerpt": "# Fix: Photoshop MCP `DoJavaScript` Broken on Photoshop 2026 (Windows)\n\n## Issue\n\nAll tools fail on Windows with Photoshop 2026 (v27.7.0). The VBS wrapper generated by `WindowsExecutor` executes via `cscript` and returns:\n\n```\nERROR: The request to the Photoshop object was denied. This functionality may not be available in this version of Photoshop.\n- Line 30: Illegal return statement after properties.\n```\n\nThe `photoshop_ping` tool succeeds, but all other tools (`get_state`, `get_document_info`",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-15T18:24:43.000Z",
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      "Title": "Very wonderful project! but Some problems I found during use (summarized using agent)",
      "Excerpt": "# Photoshop MCP Tool Issues Report\n\n> Encountered while designing a 1680×1024 anime-style birthday event UI with multi-layer PSD output.\n\n---\n\n## 🔴 P0 — Critical\n\n### 1. `photoshop_place_image` — False Error with Successful Execution\n\n**Parameters used:**\n```js\nphotoshop_place_image({\n  filePath: \"C:/path/to/file.png\",\n  x: 100,\n  y: 200\n})\n```\n\n**Issue:** Every call returns `Error placing image: No such element` while the image **is actually placed correctly** as a Smart Object layer at the spe",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-18T20:44:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "getContextInfo() throws \"No such element\" on documents without active selection - breaks get_document_info, get_layers, and many other tools",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug\n\nMost tools that read or modify a layer (`photoshop_get_document_info`, `photoshop_get_layers`, `photoshop_create_text_layer`, `photoshop_set_layer_opacity`, layer-ordering tools, history tools, etc.) fail with the error:\n\n```\nError getting document info: No such element\n```\n\n…whenever the active document does **not** have an active selection (which is the default state right after creating or opening a document).\n\n## Root Cause\n\nIn `src/api/extendscript.ts`, the shared `getContextInfo` s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-05T20:37:36.000Z",
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