Workflow Model Design (Cloud Service)

Design workflow models for AEM as a Cloud Service: step structure, transitions, OR/AND splits, variables, and model XML deployment.

Audience

Developers (and the IDE LLM acting on their behalf) authoring AEM workflow models for AEM as a Cloud Service — designing the step graph, splits, joins, transitions, and the model XML that ships through the Cloud Manager pipeline.

Variant Scope

• AEM as a Cloud Service only.
• Models are stored at /conf/global/settings/workflow/models/. Do not write to /libs or /etc — /libs is immutable and /etc/workflow/models/ is the legacy 6.5 path, deprecated on AEMaaCS.
• Deploy via Cloud Manager pipeline; design-time → runtime sync is required after deploy (Tools → Workflow → Models → Sync).
• Not for AEM 6.5 LTS. If the target is 6.5 LTS, stop and use the 6.5-lts variant of this skill — /etc/workflow/models/ legacy auto-deploy and mvn install -PautoInstallPackage deploys documented there do not apply on AEMaaCS.

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