AIO App Init: Parameterization of input

[cmrockwell]

Provide parameterization of the input for aio app init to unlock AI code assistant tools to be more effective. All template input data currently needs to be collected interactively. This makes aio app init awkward to call from MCP code generators. For example, in the Assets View UIX MCP (Model Context Protocol) use-case, the following input is collected via interactive CLI

• Organization
• Project
• Extension name
• Extension description
• Starting version
• Server side action
• Modal
• Icon
• Template

As far as I am aware only --template=${template} can be provided via argument. Other data is gathered interactively even if the user had already entered this information into the initial code assistant prompt.

Please add a feature such that arbitrary data can be provided to templates either by providing an args for key/value pairs, or a config parameter which could accept a file path to a yaml file

• --args='key1=value1,key2=value2'
• --config=./config.yaml options

The release timeline for the Assets View UIX MCP is Nov. 1, 2025

https://developer.adobe.com/uix/docs/services/aem-assets-view/code-generation/
https://github.com/adobe/aio-cli-plugin-app?tab=readme-ov-file#aio-app-init-path

[aiojbot]

JIRA issue created: https://jira.corp.adobe.com/browse/ACNA-3984

[shazron]

@cmrockwell
For the CLI, we can add flags for these:

• Organization
• Project

For Org: it can either be --org-id (this is the AMS id), --org-code (e.g. alphanumberic_number@AdobeOrg), or --org-name (e.g. Adobe IO) - or all of them (with precedence)
For Project: it can either be --project-id, or --project-name. We can't use Project Title because it is not unique (it is possible for two projects to have the same title in the same Org).

If you are in the web browser at the project's page in Developer Console - the url will give the org-id and project-id, in the form:
https://developer.adobe.com/console/projects/ORG-ID/PROJECT-ID/overview

Any template arguments will have to be handled by the template via --template-options: https://github.com/adobe/aio-cli-plugin-app-templates#aio-templates-install-path

The aio app init command does not have a flag that passes on the options to the template plugin, that will be added as well.

[shazron]

Looks like I won't need to implement the project or org flags, they are actually already there as --project (projectId or projectName) and --org (orgId or orgCode). They are hidden flags, that I will unhide for this feature, and better document them.

[shazron]

PR adobe/aio-cli-plugin-app#883