Is this organization official, semi-official, or what? I'm confused

[ThioJoe]

I'm mostly just curious. And to be clear the confusion stems from Adobe's side, not yours.

The first thing in the organization readme says

We're an independent community of artists & developers focused on Adobe Creative Cloud extensibility.
And on the docsforadobe.dev site it says:
docsforadobe and the docsforadobe.dev community community are not and do not claim to be legally affiliated with Adobe.

So that would seem very cut and dry.

But then on a bunch of different official Adobe pages this org and its repos are linked very prominently, like the "Start Scripting" button here which is basically the primary featured button: https://developer.adobe.com/premiere-pro/

Similarly on the SDK download page: https://developer.adobe.com/console/1851500/servicesandapis/pr
The "Learn More" link goes to docsforadobe.dev with no mention of it being a 3rd party site.

Is there like an official partnership, or something like that?

[zwettemaan]

Hey @ThioJoe! @zlovatt can speak to this more authoritatively, but AFAIK docsforadobe.dev is independent from Adobe. There's no official partnership. However, individual Adobe employees recognize it as a valuable resource that fills gaps in official documentation, so they often link to it from Adobe sites.

Parallel/related to what Zack's been doing, we have a collective of about 700 developers and automation specialists working around Adobe Creative Cloud. I call it "the swarm."

We've been operating as a community for over a decade, including the Creative Developer Summit (a yearly physical/online gathering running for 16 years now).

At our recent summit in Phoenix, we decided it was time to become more proactive and harness our collective power.

We just held our inaugural organizational meeting where we discussed coordinated initiatives like quality testing Adobe releases before they break everyone's workflows, collaborative bug tracking, and better community resources.

If you're interested in the Adobe automation space, you might find our approach interesting.

We're applying disaster response coordination principles to organize our swarm of independent developers:

https://hub.creativecodingcollective.org/2025/06/26/meeting-20250627-transcript/