Adobe Skills for AI Coding Agents

Repository of Adobe skills for AI coding agents.

Installation

Claude Code Plugins

/plugin marketplace add adobe/skills
/plugin install adobe-analytics@adobe-skills
/plugin install adobe-cja@adobe-skills
/plugin install aem-design@adobe-skills
/plugin install aem-edge-delivery-services@adobe-skills
/plugin install aem-project-management@adobe-skills
/plugin install app-builder@adobe-skills
/plugin install aem-cloud-service@adobe-skills
/plugin install aem-6-5-lts@adobe-skills

Vercel Skills (npx skills)

npx skills add adobe/skills --all

upskill (GitHub CLI Extension)

gh extension install ai-ecoverse/gh-upskill
gh upskill adobe/skills --all

Cursor (preview)

The app-builder plugin includes a Cursor-native manifest at plugins/app-builder/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json as the pilot for Cursor distribution. Other plugins will gain Cursor support once the pattern is validated. To install locally for development:

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/plugins/local/app-builder
cp -R plugins/app-builder/. ~/.cursor/plugins/local/app-builder/
# Then in Cursor: Cmd+Shift+P → Developer: Reload Window

Verify the plugin loaded via Cursor Settings → Plugins (it should appear with all six App Builder skills). The skills are also visible in Settings → Rules under "Agent Decides".

Available Skills

For Business

Analytics

Practitioner-focused skills for Adobe's analytics products — KPI monitoring, funnel and dimension analysis, segment comparison, and stakeholder readouts. Each product has a dedicated plugin and a dedicated MCP server. Requests require IMS auth headers (Authorization, x-gw-ims-org-id, x-gw-ims-user-id); an OAuth proxy may inject these.

Adobe Analytics

Available via the adobe-analytics plugin. Talks to the AA MCP server at https://aa-mcp.adobe.io/mcp.

/plugin install adobe-analytics@adobe-skills

Skill	Description
aa-kpi-pulse	KPI digest with period-over-period change and top mover callout • How are our KPIs looking this week? • Compare last month's KPIs to the same month last year
aa-top-movers-watchlist	Ranks dimension items by biggest gain or loss for a metric • Top gaining and declining pages this week • Which marketing channels grew or shrank most this month?
aa-conversion-funnel-analysis	Step-by-step fallout analysis across a multi-step conversion funnel • Analyze our checkout funnel • Where do mobile users drop off in the signup flow?
aa-segment-performance-comparator	Side-by-side KPI comparison across two or more audience segments • Compare mobile vs desktop performance • How do US visitors compare to UK visitors on key KPIs?
aa-executive-briefing	Narrative performance summary ready for leadership or QBR • Write last week's performance briefing for leadership • Draft a monthly business review for the board

See the adobe-analytics doc for the full plugin description, MCP server template, and skill index.

Customer Journey Analytics

Available via the adobe-cja plugin. Talks to the CJA MCP server at https://cja-mcp.adobe.io/mcp.

/plugin install adobe-cja@adobe-skills

Skill	Description
cja-kpi-pulse	KPI digest with period-over-period change, trend direction, and dimension breakdown • How are our KPIs looking this week? • Compare last month's KPIs to the same month last year
cja-top-movers-watchlist	Ranks dimension items by biggest gain or loss for a metric • Top gaining and declining pages this week • Which marketing channels grew or shrank most this month?
cja-funnel-health-check	Step-by-step fallout analysis across a multi-step conversion funnel • Check the health of our purchase funnel • Where do users drop off in our onboarding journey?
cja-dimension-analysis	Cardinality, distribution, trends, anomalies, and data quality for a dimension • Analyze the Page Name dimension • Audit our Marketing Channel values — any spelling variations or duplicates?
cja-segment-performance-comparator	Side-by-side KPI comparison across two or more audience segments • Compare mobile vs desktop performance • How do US visitors compare to UK visitors on key KPIs?
cja-executive-briefing	Narrative performance summary ready for leadership or QBR • Write last week's performance briefing for leadership • Draft a monthly business review for the board

See the adobe-cja doc for the full plugin description, MCP server template, and skill index.

Adobe Experience Manager

Designing with aem-design

Design-phase skills that run before implementation. Produces static HTML and JSON artifacts under aem-design/ — EDS-independent; no dev server or AEM instance required.

Skill	Description
aem-design	Navigator — assesses aem-design/ state and recommends the next design stage
brand	Extracts a brand profile (brand-profile.json) and visual brand board from a URL, PDF, or conversation
briefings	Captures page intent, audience, key messages, CTAs, and (optionally) final copy under aem-design/briefings/
wireframes	Produces grey structural wireframes from briefings (section order, hierarchy, spatial relationships) — optional stage
prototype	Produces branded, high-fidelity static HTML prototypes that iterate in the browser until approved

Developing with Edge Delivery Services

Skill	Description
aem-cli	Install, run, and configure the Adobe AEM CLI (aem up local dev server, .env/TLS/proxy setup, aem import, aem content da.live sync, troubleshooting); migrate from @adobe/helix-cli
create-site	Start a brand-new site from scratch: GitHub repo from boilerplate, aem-code-sync, initial DA content (nav, footer, homepage), and live URL handoff
content-driven-development	Orchestrates the CDD workflow for all code changes
analyze-and-plan	Analyze requirements and define acceptance criteria
building-blocks	Implement blocks and core functionality
testing-blocks	Browser testing and validation
content-modeling	Design author-friendly content models
code-review	Self-review and PR review

Discovering Blocks

Skill	Description
block-inventory	Survey available blocks in project and Block Collection
block-collection-and-party	Search reference implementations
docs-search	Search aem.live documentation
find-test-content	Find existing content for testing

Migrating Content

Skill	Description
page-import	Import webpages into canonical EDS block format (orchestrator)
scrape-webpage	Scrape and analyze webpage content
identify-page-structure	Analyze page sections
page-decomposition	Analyze content sequences
authoring-analysis	Determine authoring approach
generate-import-html	Generate structured HTML
preview-import	Preview imported content
snowflake	Static-to-EDS overlay conversion — preserves original DOM byte-for-byte (alternative path to page-import for AI-generated/static pages)

Content & Platform Reference

Skill	Description
da-content	Reference for DA + EDS content rules: block HTML format, metadata, media handling, DA Source API contract, and silent-failure rules

Managing Projects

Handover documentation and PDF guides generation for AEM Edge Delivery Services projects. Available via the aem-project-management plugin.

Skill	Description
handover	Orchestrates project documentation generation
authoring	Generate comprehensive authoring guide for content authors
development	Generate technical documentation for developers
admin	Generate admin guide for site administrators
whitepaper	Create professional PDF whitepapers from Markdown
auth	Authenticate with AEM Config Service API

AEM as a Cloud Service — Create Component

The create-component skill creates complete AEM components following Adobe best practices for AEM Cloud Service and AEM 6.5. It covers:

• Component definition, dialog XML, and HTL template
• Sling Model and optional child item model (multifield)
• Unit tests for models and servlets
• Clientlibs (component and dialog)
• Optional Sling Servlet for dynamic content

See plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/create-component/ for the skill and its reference files.

AEM as a Cloud Service — Ensure AGENTS.md (bootstrap)

The ensure-agents-md skill is a bootstrap skill that runs first, before any other work. When a customer opens their AEM Cloud Service project and asks the agent anything, this skill checks whether AGENTS.md exists at the repo root. If missing, it:

• Reads root pom.xml to resolve the project name and discover actual modules
• Detects add-ons (CIF, Forms, SPA type, precompiled scripts)
• Generates a tailored AGENTS.md with only the modules that exist, correct frontend variant, conditional Dispatcher MCP section, and the right resource links
• Creates CLAUDE.md (@AGENTS.md) so Claude-based tools also discover the guidance

If AGENTS.md already exists it is never overwritten.

See plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/ensure-agents-md/ for the skill, template, and module catalog.

AEM as a Cloud Service — aem-agentkit (beta)

The aem-agentkit skill complements ensure-agents-md by layering everything beyond the root AGENTS.md needed for agentic workflows across Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Continue.dev, Cline, Windsurf, and Augment Code. It writes only into agent-meta locations and never modifies customer source code. Scope: AEM as a Cloud Service only — the skill exits early on 6.5 LTS / AMS / on-premise layouts.

• Per-module AGENTS.md in each detected AEM module (focused context the agent loads only when working in that module, recursive for nested AEM monorepos)
• Machine-readable codified context under .aem/context/: component catalog, OSGi services / Sling Models / Sling Servlets index, derived conventions with evidence pointers, anti-patterns with absolute Cloud Service documentation links, glossary, test patterns, canonical API namespaces, run manifest (every file written + every heuristic decision)
• Silent IDE detection — writes project-scoped subagents (.claude/agents/aem-*.md) and slash commands (.claude/commands/*.md) for Claude, rule files (.cursor/rules/aem-*.mdc) for Cursor, scoped instructions (.github/instructions/aem-*.instructions.md) for GitHub Copilot, rules (.continue/rules/aem-*.md) for Continue, plus concatenated rule files for Cline / Windsurf / Augment. A single canonical role-prompt is projected into each format so the content is identical across IDEs.
• Non-destructive .mcp.json / .cursor/mcp.json placeholders when missing (inert by construction — no command field, _TODO_ key prefix)
• Embedded guardrails (search-before-create, verify-before-import, no /libs writes, stop-on-red, honor indexes after writing code)
• Idempotent, marker-based, byte-for-byte non-destructive — git diff after a run shows zero changes to pre-existing files. Customer opt-out via a _disable_agentkit file at the workspace root, with explicit single-archetype-vs-monorepo handling.
• Deterministic by construction — realpath + workspace boundary checks, SHA-256 canonical-body marker checksums, atomic .tmp + rename(2) writes, exhaustive Unicode sanitization, sorted-key JSON, bounded file walks (100,000 files / depth 32 / 10,000 per subtree), advisory workspace lock — all performed by the deterministic helper documented in references/helpers.md.
• Beta. Verify all outputs before applying them to production projects.

aem-agentkit does not replace ensure-agents-md; the two are complementary. When the root AGENTS.md is missing and ensure-agents-md is available, aem-agentkit defers to it as step 0. When ensure-agents-md is not installed, aem-agentkit proceeds with everything else and emits a one-line notice.

See plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/aem-agentkit/ for the skill, references, templates, and tool-specific projection rules.

AEM Workflow

Workflow skills cover the full AEM Granite Workflow Engine lifecycle — from designing and implementing workflows to production debugging and incident triaging. Like Dispatcher, they are split by runtime flavor:

• plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/aem-workflow — Cloud Service variant (no JMX, Cloud Manager logs, pipeline deploy)
• plugins/aem/6.5-lts/skills/aem-workflow — 6.5 LTS / AMS variant (JMX, Felix Console, direct log access)

Each flavor contains the same specialist sub-skills:

Sub-Skill	Purpose
workflow-model-design	Design workflow models, step types, OR/AND splits, variables
workflow-development	Implement WorkflowProcess steps, ParticipantStepChooser, OSGi services
workflow-triggering	Start workflows from UI, code, HTTP API, or Manage Publication
workflow-launchers	Configure automatic workflow launchers on JCR events
workflow-debugging	Debug stuck, failed, or stale workflows in production
workflow-triaging	Classify incidents, determine log patterns, Splunk queries
workflow-orchestrator	Full lifecycle orchestration across all sub-skills

AEM Dispatcher

Dispatcher skills are split by runtime flavor to avoid mode auto-detection and keep installation explicit. Install only one dispatcher flavor in a workspace (cloud-service or 6.5-lts).

Current dispatcher flavors:

• plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/dispatcher
• plugins/aem/6.5-lts/skills/dispatcher

Each flavor contains parallel capability groups (workflow orchestration, config authoring, technical advisory, incident response, performance tuning, and security hardening). Shared advisory logic is centralized under each flavor's dispatcher/shared/references/ to reduce duplication and drift.

AEM Replication

Replication skills for AEM 6.5 LTS cover the full content distribution lifecycle from agent configuration to troubleshooting.

Location: plugins/aem/6.5-lts/skills/aem-replication

The aem-replication skill contains four specialist sub-skills:

Sub-Skill	Purpose
configure-replication-agent	Configure replication agents for publishing, dispatcher flush, and reverse replication
replicate-content	Activate and deactivate content using UI, workflows, and package manager
replication-api	Use the Replication API programmatically in custom code with complete Java examples
troubleshoot-replication	Diagnose and fix blocked queues, connectivity failures, and distribution problems

Key features:

• All skills based on official AEM 6.5 LTS documentation
• Complete coverage of public Replication API (Replicator, ReplicationOptions, AgentManager, ReplicationQueue, etc.)
• 49 Java code examples for OSGi services, servlets, and workflow steps
• 12+ troubleshooting scenarios with step-by-step resolution
• 3,575 lines of comprehensive documentation

AEM as a Cloud Service — Rapid Development Environment (RDE) (beta)

The aem-rde skill provides expert assistance for the Adobe I/O CLI plugin @adobe/aio-cli-plugin-aem-rde — used to deploy, inspect, log-tail, snapshot, and troubleshoot AEM Rapid Development Environments via aio aem rde … commands. The skill activates only on explicit RDE references; generic AEMaaCS deployment requests are deferred to Cloud Manager skills.

Skill	Description
aem-rde (beta)	Translate goals into the right aio aem rde commands (deploy, status, history, logs, inspect, snapshot, setup); diagnose RDE problems; guide setup, experimental feature flags, and CI/build-environment usage

See plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/aem-rde/ for the skill and its reference files (commands, configuration, deployment types, troubleshooting, workflows).

AEM as a Cloud Service — Best Practices & Migration

Under plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/, best-practices/ is the general-purpose Cloud Service skill: pattern modules, Java baseline references (SCR→OSGi DS, resolver/logging, and related refs), and day-to-day Cloud Service alignment. Use it without loading migration for greenfield or maintainability work. migration/ (BPA/CAM orchestration) is scoped to legacy AEM → AEM as a Cloud Service (not Edge Delivery or 6.5 LTS); it delegates concrete refactors to best-practices (references/). Installing the AEM as a Cloud Service plugin (aem-cloud-service, or the plugins/aem/cloud-service path with npx skills / gh upskill) includes both; the agent should load the appropriate SKILL.md for the task. Use gh upskill / npx skills with --skill when you need a specific bundled skill (see Installation above).

Key features:

• Best practices: one skill for patterns, SCR→OSGi DS, and resolver/logging — applicable to Cloud Service projects generally, not only migration
• Migration: orchestration-only; pattern and transformation content lives in best-practices

App Builder

Development, customization, testing, and deployment skills for Adobe App Builder projects.

Skill chaining:

• Actions path: appbuilder-project-init → appbuilder-action-scaffolder → appbuilder-testing → appbuilder-cicd-pipeline
• UI path: appbuilder-project-init → appbuilder-ui-scaffolder → appbuilder-testing → appbuilder-cicd-pipeline
• E2E path: appbuilder-ui-scaffolder or appbuilder-testing → appbuilder-e2e-testing → appbuilder-cicd-pipeline

Skill	Description
appbuilder-project-init	Initialize new Adobe App Builder projects and choose the right bootstrap path
appbuilder-action-scaffolder	Scaffold, implement, deploy, and debug Adobe Runtime actions
appbuilder-ui-scaffolder	Generate React Spectrum UI components for ExC Shell SPAs and AEM UI Extensions
appbuilder-testing	Generate and run Jest unit, integration, and contract tests for actions and UI components
appbuilder-e2e-testing	Playwright browser E2E tests for ExC Shell SPAs and AEM extensions
appbuilder-cicd-pipeline	Set up CI/CD pipelines for GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI

Creativity & Design

Skill	Description
adobe-batch-edit-photos	Apply consistent, cohesive photo adjustments across a set of images — matched tones, presets, and cinematic looks
adobe-design-from-template	Create flyers, posters, social posts, invitations, business cards, and other visuals from Adobe Express templates
adobe-retouch-portraits	Bulk walk-away retouching for wedding and event portraits: auto-straighten, auto-tone, and auto-light across a folder
adobe-edit-quick-cut	Turn a long video into a punchy sizzle or highlight reel using Adobe Quick Cut
adobe-resize-photos-and-videos	Resize images and videos to exact pixel dimensions, aspect ratios, or named sizes (4K, HD, A4)
adobe-create-social-variations	Produce platform-ready image and video crops for Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social platforms

Repository Structure

plugins/
├── adobe-analytics/
│   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   └── plugin.json
│   ├── .mcp.json
│   └── skills/
│       ├── aa-kpi-pulse/
│       ├── aa-top-movers-watchlist/
│       ├── aa-conversion-funnel-analysis/
│       ├── aa-segment-performance-comparator/
│       └── aa-executive-briefing/
├── adobe-cja/
│   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   └── plugin.json
│   ├── .mcp.json
│   └── skills/
│       ├── cja-kpi-pulse/
│       ├── cja-top-movers-watchlist/
│       ├── cja-funnel-health-check/
│       ├── cja-dimension-analysis/
│       ├── cja-segment-performance-comparator/
│       └── cja-executive-briefing/
├── aem/
│   ├── edge-delivery-services/
│   │   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   │   └── plugin.json
│   │   └── skills/
│   │       ├── content-driven-development/
│   │       ├── building-blocks/
│   │       └── ...
│   ├── project-management/
│   │   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   │   └── plugin.json
│   │   ├── fonts/
│   │   ├── hooks/
│   │   │   └── pdf-lifecycle.js
│   │   ├── templates/
│   │   │   └── whitepaper.typ
│   │   └── skills/
│   │       ├── handover/
│   │       ├── authoring/
│   │       ├── development/
│   │       ├── admin/
│   │       ├── whitepaper/
│   │       └── auth/
│   ├── cloud-service/
│   │   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   │   └── plugin.json
│   │   └── skills/
│   │       ├── best-practices/
│   │       │   ├── README.md
│   │       │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │       │   └── references/
│   │       ├── migration/
│   │       │   ├── README.md
│   │       │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │       │   ├── references/
│   │       │   └── scripts/
│   │       ├── ensure-agents-md/
│   │       │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │       │   └── references/
│   │       │       ├── AGENTS.md.template
│   │       │       └── module-catalog.md
│   │       ├── create-component/
│   │       │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │       │   ├── assets/
│   │       │   └── references/
│   │       ├── aem-workflow/
│   │       │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │       │   ├── workflow-model-design/
│   │       │   ├── workflow-development/
│   │       │   ├── workflow-triggering/
│   │       │   ├── workflow-launchers/
│   │       │   ├── workflow-debugging/
│   │       │   ├── workflow-triaging/
│   │       │   └── workflow-orchestrator/
│   │       └── dispatcher/
│   │           ├── SKILL.md
│   │           ├── config-authoring/
│   │           ├── technical-advisory/
│   │           ├── incident-response/
│   │           ├── performance-tuning/
│   │           ├── security-hardening/
│   │           └── workflow-orchestrator/
│   └── 6.5-lts/
│       ├── .claude-plugin/
│       │   └── plugin.json
│       └── skills/
│           ├── aem-workflow/
│           │   ├── SKILL.md
│           │   ├── workflow-model-design/
│           │   ├── workflow-development/
│           │   ├── workflow-triggering/
│           │   ├── workflow-launchers/
│           │   ├── workflow-debugging/
│           │   ├── workflow-triaging/
│           │   └── workflow-orchestrator/
│           ├── aem-replication/
│           │   ├── README.md
│           │   ├── SKILL.md
│           │   ├── configure-replication-agent/
│           │   ├── replicate-content/
│           │   ├── replication-api/
│           │   └── troubleshoot-replication/
│           ├── ensure-agents-md/
│           └── dispatcher/
│               ├── SKILL.md
│               ├── config-authoring/
│               ├── technical-advisory/
│               ├── incident-response/
│               ├── performance-tuning/
│               ├── security-hardening/
│               └── workflow-orchestrator/
├── app-builder/
│   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   └── plugin.json
│   └── skills/
│       ├── _shared/
│       ├── appbuilder-project-init/
│       ├── appbuilder-action-scaffolder/
│       ├── appbuilder-ui-scaffolder/
│       ├── appbuilder-testing/
│       ├── appbuilder-e2e-testing/
│       └── appbuilder-cicd-pipeline/
└── creative-cloud/
    └── adobe-for-creativity/
        ├── .claude-plugin/
        │   └── plugin.json
        ├── skills/
        │   └── ...
        └── .mcp.json

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on adding or updating skills. Join #agentskills on Adobe Slack for questions and discussion.

Resources

• agentskills.io Specification
• Claude Code Plugins
• Vercel Skills
• upskill GitHub Extension
• #agentskills Slack Channel

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.