Config Authoring

What it does

When your agent uses it

• AI & LLM Engineering work in your project

Example prompts

• “/config-authoring”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires Dispatcher MCP configured for cloud variant (`AEM_DEPLOYMENT_MODE=cloud`).
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): validate, lint, sdk, trace_request, inspect_cache, monitor_metrics, tail_logs

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cbc9952. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • validate
  • lint
  • sdk
  • trace_request
  • inspect_cache
  • monitor_metrics
  • tail_logs

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Requires Dispatcher MCP configured for cloud variant (`AEM_DEPLOYMENT_MODE=cloud`).

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Config Authoring loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~23k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 321 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~59

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~23k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from adobe/skills at commit cbc9952, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© adobe). 321 words, ~1,489 tokens.

name

config-authoring

description

Create, modify, review, and harden configuration for the Adobe Dispatcher Apache HTTP Server module and Apache HTTPD in AEM as a Cloud Service environments only. Use for `.any`, vhost, rewrite, cache, and filter changes.

allowed-tools

validate, lint, sdk, trace_request, inspect_cache, monitor_metrics, tail_logs

compatibility

Requires Dispatcher MCP configured for cloud variant (`AEM_DEPLOYMENT_MODE=cloud`).

license

Apache-2.0

metadata.mcp-tool-contract

core-7-tools

Cloud Config Progress
- [ ] 1) Confirm scope and acceptance criteria; if the repo layout is unclear, normalize it with `repo-layout-workflows.md`
- [ ] 2) Apply cloud guardrails (immutable files, required includes, symlink topology, required wildcard ServerAlias coverage, reserved probe paths, preserved cloud vhost defaults, CDN-vs-Dispatcher boundary)
- [ ] 3) Decompose target URLs (path/selectors/extension/suffix) and use that model for all URL-based rules—filters, cache rules, etc.—using `/path`, `/selectors`, `/extension`, `/suffix` or aligned globs (not raw `/url`) where applicable; then design complete section-level edits
- [ ] 4) Update config with least-privilege defaults (produce final merged section, not isolated rule snippets)
- [ ] 5) Run static checks: validate -> lint (deep/order-aware when filters changed)
- [ ] 6) Run SDK checks: `sdk({"action":"check-files","config_path":"<dispatcher src path>"})`, `sdk({"action":"diff-baseline","config_path":"<dispatcher src path>"})` as needed
- [ ] 7) Run runtime verification in container-backed environment
- [ ] 8) Return diff, evidence table, risk/rollback, and citations

© adobe, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 17 other files (references) in plugins/aem/cloud-service/skills/dispatcher/config-authoring of adobe/skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/config-authoring/config-patterns.md
• references/config-authoring/config-scenario-playbooks.md
• references/config-authoring/mcp-tool-orchestration.md
• references/config-authoring/reference-snippets.md
• references/config-authoring/validation-playbook.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/README.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/change-risk-and-rollback-template.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/cloud-service-aemaacs-guardrails.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/core-7-tools-reference.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/local-sdk-execution.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/mode-specific-verification-matrix.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/playbook-command-linkage.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/public-doc-citation-rules.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/public-docs-index.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/quick-start-execution-path.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/repo-layout-workflows.md
• references/dispatcher-foundation/test-case-catalog.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cbc9952