How "Auto-fix" works

One of the benefits of AI is that it understands the context it's operating in. A downside is that it sometimes "hallucinates", it comes up with code that is not supported by Illustrator (e.g. a wrong API call) With Auto-fix MATE can detect and try to fix this kind of scripting errors in one go.

The process

1. MATE produces a script. Let's say, this script has an error.

2. It detects that error and presents a "Script Error" warning.

3. If Auto-fix is on then MATE automatically tries to understand and fix the error. Most of the time it will work right away.

4. It will try to fix it 10 times. After that it will give up (to prevent not running into a loop of fixing attempts). After that you can still trigger a fix manually with the button "Try to fix it".
   
   

NOTE
Due to how JavaScript is handled in Illustrator, MATE can only detect API errors—such as incorrect spelling or calls to non-existent official Adobe API functions. It cannot detect logical errors or issues that simply result in undefined. In Illustrator, undefined is not treated as an error by JavaScript.

(If your script is still not working as expected, use this prompt to better understand what is going on: "Add alerts for debugging". And later, "Remove debugging alerts". These alerts will help you to understand better the inner workings of the script. Remember, it's a chat. You can ask MATE anytime for help!)

Step 1: Error detected and an Auto-fix is running

Step 2: The result

Toggle "Auto-fix" in a chat

You can turn Auto-fix on/off for every message.

Configure the default state for new chats

In Settings > Chats you define the default state for Auto-fix for new chats. If you don't like it, you can turn it here off forever. In each chat you can still turn Auto-fix on or off at any time.