Sidekick for InDesign

Get the Sidekick plugin from Adobe Exchange. It adds a small panel to InDesign that connects to your AI assistant.

Download the extension for Claude Desktop (or set up manually for Cursor, Windsurf, and others). Now your AI can talk to InDesign.

Open your AI assistant and InDesign, then just ask: "Help me fix the spacing on page 3" or "Make all my headings blue."

Anything you can do in InDesign, you can ask Claude to help with.

Describe what you want and Claude builds it—text frames, image boxes, grids, and more.

Apply styles, adjust typography, fix formatting issues—just tell Claude what you need.

Batch operations, repetitive edits, data-driven layouts—let Claude handle the tedious work.

As an engineer, I like using InDesign for construction specifications booklets, final reports, proposals, etc. Between Claude handling the tedious repetitive items and the quality control reviews, it's like having an expert on my shoulder every step of the way and making the updates/changes for me. It's not perfect, but it makes mistakes about as often as I do… it's a great tool!

This works way better than I could have imagined. As with any AI, once you get the hang of describing what you're needing, it feels like an in-house proofer and intern you can hand off grunt work to. After 6 weeks, it's saved me countless hours and taken over much of the mind numbing tedious tasks to free me up for what I'm good at — the creative side. Also, the errors and revisions are down by around 50% as it catches things 4+ proof readers miss on technical documents.

If you use InDesign and use Claude, this is a total no-brainer. My first several designs were pretty mediocre, but then I realized that, like with all LLMs, you have to tell it what you want. If you manage Sidekick like you would manage your in-house or external designer, you'll get much better results. Tell it what you want, give it screenshots, give it directions on layout and margins, and poof, it's there. Really wonderful.

Sidekick runs entirely on your machine. Your documents never leave your computer—the plugin just lets Claude see and edit what's in InDesign.

Which versions of InDesign are supported?

Sidekick requires InDesign 2024 or later, as it uses Adobe's UXP plugin architecture.

Auditing Alt Text in InDesign, in One Pass

Accessible PDFs need alt text on every image—and InDesign's AI now stamps 'AI generated' placeholders on your client photos. Sidekick lets Claude audit and fix the alt text across a whole document, describing only what's actually visible.

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