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Development Agent overview development-agent-overview

Last update: Fri Nov 21 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
  • Applies to:
  • Experience Manager as a Cloud Service

CREATED FOR:

  • User
  • Admin
  • Developer

The Development Agent helps AEM developers and administrators create, debug, deploy, and optimize code more efficiently.

Currently, the agent can retrieve pipeline statuses and help you troubleshoot failing build steps by suggesting fixes, saving time when debugging AEM as a Cloud Service deployments to development, stage, and production environments. It examines build logs and related code to recommend a fix that you can apply manually.

IMPORTANT
AI-generated responses may be inaccurate or misleading. Be sure you double-check suggested fixes and responses.
See also Adobe Experience Cloud Generative AI User Guidelines.

Access the Development Agent through Cloud Manager how-to-access-the-agent

You access the Development Agent through the AI Assistant found in user interfaces including Cloud Manager or Experience Hub.

To access the Development Agent through Cloud Manager:

  1. To get started, click Adobe Experience Cloud to open its home page.

    Adobe Experience Cloud home page

  2. In the left rail, under the Services heading, click Cloud Manager.

    The drop-down list showing the Content Author preset is selected

    note important
    IMPORTANT
    The widgets, tools, and artifacts shown depend on the user persona, entitlements, and AEM deployment type (AEM as a Cloud Service or Managed Services 6.5/6.5 LTS).

  3. In the left rail, under Program, click Overview icon .

  4. On the Program Overview page, in the Pipelines card, click a pipeline.

    Selected pipeline

  5. In the Build and Code Scanning page, note the failed pipeline.

    Pipeline failure as seen in the Build and Code Scanning page

  6. Near the upper-right corner of the AEM user interface (either from Cloud Manager pages or the author instance of the AEM environments), click the AI Assistant icon.

    AI Assistant icon on the toolbar

    See also AI Assistant in AEM.

  7. In the AI Assistant panel text box near the bottom, type your question or prompt, then press Enter or click Send icon .

    For example:
    In the “eda-org-01-no-access” program, analyze the failure to the “no-access” pipeline and troubleshoot.

    The prompt results in the following response.

    AI Assistant prompt and resulting response

Permissions permissions

The Development Agent’s pipeline troubleshooting job requires either the Cloud Manager - Developer role or the Cloud Manager - Program Manager role.

Sample prompts sample-prompts

Prompt
Result
List my failed pipelines for program Main Program.
While results may vary, this prompt should output a table of failed pipelines, with a follow-up suggestion to reference a specific pipeline to analyze.
Analyze my failed pipeline called “Dev Pipeline.”
This prompt should result in an analysis of the failed pipeline with suggestions to fix.

Out-of-scope features out-of-scope-features

Pipeline troubleshooting operates on the Full-Stack pipeline’s build step. For other pipeline types and steps, debug failures by downloading and inspecting the logs.

See Access and Download Logs.

Pipeline troubleshooting is not supported for programs using BYOGIT (Bring Your Own Git).

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