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Adobe's Firefly Creative Agent Now Shows Its Plan and Picks the Model: What Plan Mode Changes for Editors

12 November 2026 · RenderBob team

At Adobe MAX, Firefly's Creative Agent gained a plan you can edit before it runs, and a model selector. The assistant is in beta. Always-on agents are still a preview.

At Adobe MAX on 10 November, Adobe's press release said the Creative Agent that powers Firefly AI Assistant (beta) now has Plan Mode and a Model Selector. The Next Web's same-day report, from Adobe's briefing, describes how those controls work. Most of the new Firefly tools are still in beta or preview.

What was announced

• Plan Mode. The Next Web says the agent can lay out its plan first. The creator can edit and approve it, or let the agent run on its own.
• A model selector. The same report says the agent can pick the model for each job, or the creator can choose. Adobe's release names the partners: models from Adobe, Topaz Labs and partners including ByteDance, Google, Kling, OpenAI and ElevenLabs.
• Names, checked against Adobe's partner page. The Next Web lists Dreamina Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0, Nano Banana 2.1 and two versions of GPT Image 2.6. Adobe's partner-models page lists Dreamina Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 Omni, GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst and Flare, and Gemini 3.1 with Nano Banana 2. It does not list a model called Nano Banana 2.1. A credit row on that page is labelled Kling 4.0.
• Status. The assistant is in beta, per Adobe. Always-on background agents are a preview in the press release. The Next Web says they reach beta in early 2027, citing an Adobe blog post. The Next Web also says Edit Text, Retouch, Relight and Quick Actions are available to all Firefly users now. Adobe's release lists Relight, Retouch, Edit Object and Quick Actions without that availability line.
• Credits. The Next Web quotes Zorana Gee, a senior director of product at Adobe: extra AI credits are sold only as a monthly add-on. Adobe is evaluating one-off top-ups and has made no decision.

What is still unclear

The Next Web notes that most of the briefing is Adobe's account, including an Adobe-commissioned survey, and is not independently verified. We have not seen how the agent chooses a model, whether an approved plan is stored, or a credit estimate for a whole agent job before you approve it. Adobe's partner page does publish per-model rates, covered in the note on Firefly Design, Graph and Builder. For Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Kling 3.0 Omni and Kling 4.0 Omni, that page says prompts and reference files are sent to the companies that developed the models, and that the content is not used to train partner or Adobe models.

What a readable plan changes

An agent that acts before anyone can read the steps is hard to supervise. A plan the creator can edit is a checkpoint before any media is generated or any file is changed. It also puts the model choice where a supervisor can see it.

Questions to ask before relying on a model-picking agent

• Can you override the model per step, or only for the whole job?
• What does each step cost in credits, and is the estimate shown before approval?
• Is the approved plan stored, so a producer can see later what was agreed?
• Which partner models are allowed under the client's contract and your own licensing rules?
• What happens when a partner model is withdrawn? Adobe's page already notes that Gemini 2.5 (Nano Banana) is being deprecated and removed from apps.
• Where do outputs and prompts live once the job is done, including when a prompt is sent to a partner?

What to watch

Whether one-off credit top-ups arrive, the early-2027 beta for background agents, and whether an approved plan can be saved and read later.

RenderBob 3 and this story

RenderBob 3 treats the model as a per-clip choice that you make, with generated clips on their own timeline lane and references and prompt logs kept with the studio, so the record of who picked what stays with your team.