aem-desktop CLAUDE.md

aem-desktop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from adobe/aem-desktop. It costs 3,717 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for AEM Desktop, an Electron desktop application for Adobe Experience Manager Edge Delivery Services. They describe the project structure, tools, and release rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing, testing, packaging, signing, notarizing, or releasing the AEM Desktop application.
Why use it?
They give an unfamiliar contributor the constraints needed to make compatible changes and maintain testing, packaging, signing, and update workflows.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adobe/aem-desktop

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Grade A, and why

aem-desktop CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Navigation hub and working agreement for the AEM Desktop app — a desktop shell for Adobe Experience Manager Edge Delivery Services. This file is the first thing to read before making changes.

AGENTS.md is a symlink to this file.

What this is

An Electron desktop application. Today it is an empty shell (window + version readout); the point of this repository is the development environment around it: auto-update and a signed, notarized release pipeline so feature work can start on a solid foundation.

Deliberate stack choices (kept close to @adobe/aem-cli / helix-cli, not slicc):

  • Pure ESM JavaScript — no TypeScript, no bundler. The renderer is plain ESM over file://; the main process is ESM run directly by Electron.
  • No Vite / webpack. No bundler runtime; reload the renderer with Cmd+R (see below).
  • node --test for unit and integration tests (no Mocha/Vitest).
  • ESLint with @adobe/eslint-config-helix (Apache headers enforced). No Prettier.
  • electron-builder for packaging/signing/notarization, electron-updater for in-app updates, semantic-release to drive versioning and releases.

Module map

Path Purpose
src/main/index.js App entry: lifecycle, BrowserWindow, IPC, menu, updater, UA, dev console
src/main/window-options.js Pure builder of secure BrowserWindow options (unit tested)
src/main/update-policy.js Pure shouldAutoUpdate() decision (unit tested)
src/main/updater.js electron-updater wiring against the GitHub release feed
src/main/logger.js Shared electron-log logger (use instead of console.log)
src/main/dev-config.js Pure dev helpers: CDP port + screenshot filename (unit tested)
src/main/dev-console.js Forwards the renderer console to the dev terminal (dev only)
src/main/cli-install.js Installs the content CLI launcher on PATH (pure builders unit tested)
src/main/source-log.js Pure reducer of api.aem.live audit-log entries → source changes (tested)
src/main/user-agent.js Pure builder of the AEM-Desktop user-agent token (unit tested)
src/main/aem-guard.js Guards the .aem pristine store: read-only originals + README/.gitignore deterrents (tested)
src/preload/index.cjs Sandboxed contextBridge API — the only CommonJS file (see note)
src/renderer/ index.html + renderer.js + styles.css — the UI shell
src/cli/content.js The content CLI entry (sites/download/update/upload); Node-only
src/cli/cli-lib.js Pure CLI arg parser + site selector (unit tested)
scripts/dev.js Dev launcher: runs Electron once with CDP (no auto-reload; Cmd+R instead)
test/ node --test unit + config integration tests
build/ electron-builder resources (entitlements; add icons here)
electron-builder.yml Packaging, signing, notarization, DMG layout, GitHub publish target
.releaserc.cjs semantic-release plugin chain (build → attach artifacts → tag)
.github/workflows/ main.yaml (lint/test/build smoke on mac+win), release.yaml (mac+win release)

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 lines

Changes

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aem-desktop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository adobe/aem-desktop (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,717 tokens to every session, about $0.0186 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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