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Experience Modernization Console console-reference

Last update: Mon Mar 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Reference guide for the Experience Modernization Console interface and capabilities

NOTE
If you are interested in using the Experience Modernization Console, you can request access to ensure a smooth onboarding experience.

Overview overview

The Experience Modernization Console is a hosted, AI-assisted development environment for Edge Delivery Services, exposed as a web interface at aemcoder.adobe.io. After connecting to their GitHub project, you can immediately start prompting changes in natural language without any further setup or local environment configuration.

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If you are interested in getting started right away with the console, check out the document Getting Started with the Experience Modernization Agent.

Capabilities capabilities

Core capabilities of the console:

  • Interactive chat panel with the agent and its skills
  • Live AEM preview for immediate visual feedback on changes
  • Content file browser and markdown viewer
  • Content synchronization with Document Authoring
  • Code browser and diff viewer for reviewing changes made
  • GitHub integration with ability to create pull requests from changes

Developers retain full control over what ships. All changes made through the console require review and approval before deployment, ensuring governance, brand consistency, and security.

After signing into the console at aemcoder.adobe.io, you arrive on the home screen of the console.

Home screen of console

The top menu bar provides:

  • An Open menu button on the left to expand and collapse the detail of the left side panel
  • An Account button on the right for switching to dark mode and signing out of the console

The left sidebar allows quick access to important views of the console.

  • Home View (house icon) - Your starting point for using the console
  • Content View (file icon) - Content that you have imported
  • Code View (</> icon) - Code of the site that you are working on
  • Settings View (gear icon) - Settings of the console

Home View home-view

The Home view is your starting point for using the console.

  • At the top is a prompt input for making requests of the console.
  • Below the prompt panel are suggested prompts for getting started with your project.

Prompt input prompt-input

The prompt input provides controls for interacting with the AI.

  • Plan / Execute modes (light bulb and magic wand icons): Toggle between planning and execution modes, respectively

    • Plan mode: The AI analyzes requests and outlines an approach without making changes, which is useful for understanding strategy before committing.
    • Execute mode: The AI carries out the plan and makes actual file changes.

  • Attach files (paperclip icon): Upload and attach files to the prompt for additional context (e.g. reference designs, screenshots, specs)

Content View content-view

The Content view provides tools for browsing and previewing content. By default the view is split into three panels, left-to-right:

  • Prompt panel for interacting with the console and project
  • File browser for an overview of your content files (toggle showing this panel with the chevron icon)
  • Preview panel for visualizing content selected in the file browser

Content view

Chat panel chat-panel

The chat panel allows you to view and continue your conversation with the Experience Modernization agent. The chat panel includes the chat message history and a prompt input for making additional requests of the console.

  • Chat actions

    • Clear chat: This resets the conversation and clears the AI’s context window. Use this option when starting a new task unrelated to the previous conversation.
    • Download chat: This downloads the conversation history as a markdown file.

Preview panel preview-panel

The preview panel offers up to four modes:

  • Preview (document with magnifying glass icon) to view the rendered HTML content

    • Responsive view to view the rendered HTML content in a desktop, tablet, or mobile view
    • Design mode (paintbrush icon) to add elements of the page to your prompt for additional context

  • Document view (document icon) to view the underlying document authoring content structure, respectively

  • Markdown view (AEM authoring) (code icon) to view the underlying markdown content structure

  • JCR XML view (AEM authoring) (data icon) to view the resulting JCR XML content structure

You can always click the Refresh preview icon to update the preview panel.

The Delete button removes the selected page from the workspace. Previewed or published content will not be deleted.

The Errors button (AEM authoring) opens a modal window to view the errors on the selected page.

The Upload content button opens a modal window to upload files to AEM.

  • Organization and Repository field are prepopulated if your project has an fstab.yaml file
  • File selection provides editable target paths
  • Upload to JCR (for Universal Editor) is not supported

Upload content

Code View code-view

The Code view provides tools for browsing code and managing code changes. The view is split into three panels, left-to-right:

  • Chat panel for interacting with the console and project
  • File browser for an overview of your code files or changes as diffs
  • Preview panel for viewing a code file or changes selected in the file browser

Code view

The preview panel offers two different modes:

  • Workspace files to browse the code files in the current workspace

    • Use the Add to chat button to add the file to the chat panel for context.

  • Git Changes to view the diffs of files changes created by your work on the project

    • Click the + icon to stage the changed file
    • Click the arrow icon to discard the changed file

The Information icon lists your currently connected GitHub account and project.

The GitHub actions menu (top right) provides repository operations.

  • Connect / Reconnect: Initiates GitHub OAuth
  • Switch Repository: Replaces the workspace with a different repository. Any uncommitted work will be lost.
  • Switch Branch: Switches branches within the same repository
  • Sync: Pulls the latest changes from the remote origin
  • Push: Opens a modal to push workspace changes to GitHub
  • Logout: Disconnects from GitHub

When pushing changes, you must have first staged changes to include in the push. When pushing you can choose to create a new PR or push directly to the current branch

Push changes

Settings View settings-view

The settings view allows you to manage basic settings of the console.

Settings view

  • Project allows you to view and edit project settings such as customizing the library URL.

  • Support allows you to request help from the AEM support team.

  • Credentials allows you to specify a personal access token for Figma so the console can access design blocks for your project.

    • The token requires the following read-only scopes:

      • file_content:read
      • file_metadata:read
      • library_assets:read
      • library_content:read
      • team_library_content:read
      • file_dev_resources:read
      • projects:read

    • See the Figma documentation for more information about setting up personal access tokens.

  • Reset workspace reverts the console to its starting state and all un-pushed or un-uploaded changes will be lost.

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