aem-init

aem-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from easingthemes/dx-aem-flow. It costs 44 tokens per session (7,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup workflow for detecting an Adobe Experience Manager project and adding its project-specific settings to the DX configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after DX initialization to configure AEM component paths, brands, discovery files, shared rules, templates, and Copilot instructions.
Why use it?
It reduces manual configuration and checks that related project indexes, rules, templates, and agent files stay aligned when setup is repeated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the dx-aem plugin — 12 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/easingthemes/dx-aem-flow/aem-init
Any agent
npx skills add easingthemes/dx-aem-flow --skill aem-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/easingthemes/dx-aem-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dx-aem, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00044 $0.07591
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.03795
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00759

Measured 4d ago against content hash ad19bd952375, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aem-init 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 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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.

plugins/dx-aem/skills/aem-init/SKILL.md · 629 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 629 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You configure AEM-specific settings by detecting the project structure and appending an aem: section to .ai/config.yaml.

Re-run Validation Protocol

CRITICAL: When aem-init is re-run, EVERY step MUST execute. NEVER stop early. If the user chooses "Keep as-is" for config, skip to step 6 and continue through ALL remaining steps (6→7→8→9). Each step validates:

File Category Re-run Behavior
Config (aem: section in config.yaml) Ask: keep / modify / regenerate
Component index (.ai/project/component-index.md) Offer to re-scan if stale
Component discovery (.ai/project/component-discovery.md) Offer to re-scan if stale (AEM dialog changes on QA)
Shared rule extensions (pr-review.md, pr-answer.md AEM sections) Validate sections exist, re-append if missing
Rule templates (.claude/rules/be-.md, fe-.md) Compare against plugin template → if template changed and user hasn't customized: update. If user customized: show diff, ask
Copilot instructions Read from .claude/rules/ via COPILOT_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS_DIRS — no copies needed
Copilot agents (.github/agents/AEM*.md) Compare against plugin template → update silently if changed

Inline execution from dx-init: When this skill is run inline from /dx-init step 7 (AEM auto-chain), skip Copilot-related steps: 8a (Copilot question), 8e (AEM Copilot agent templates), and 8f (copilot-instructions.md update). Also skip step 9 (Confirm). These are handled by dx-init steps 9 and 10 instead. Set COPILOT_ENABLED=false as default — dx-init handles Copilot output separately.

1. Check Prerequisites

Check if .ai/config.yaml exists. If not: "Run /dx-init first to set up the base project config."

Check if .ai/config.yaml already has an aem: section:

  • If it exists: Display current AEM config and ask: "AEM config already exists. (A) Keep as-is, (B) Modify, or (C) Regenerate?"
    • If A: Say "Config kept. Validating all AEM files..." — then CONTINUE to step 6 to validate component index, rules, and templates. DO NOT stop or exit.
    • If B/C: Continue to step 2
  • If it doesn't exist: Continue to step 2.

Read the full file on GitHub · 629 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 629 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ad19bd952375

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aem-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository easingthemes/dx-aem-flow (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 7,591 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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