# configuring-imports

A skill for configuring Celigo imports, the destination step that writes records to external systems. Useful when you pick an adaptor type, set up lookups or wire an upsert.

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- Author: celigo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/celigo/ai/tree/HEAD/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

An import is the destination in a Celigo integration. It takes records from an upstream step and writes them to a REST API, database, ERP, file server or AI model. Every import has one adaptor type and, apart from the connection-less kinds, exactly one connection. The skill covers six areas: field mapping, operation logic (create, update, upsert, delete, attach/detach), JavaScript hooks, one-to-many fan-out, response mapping and the `postResponseMap` hook.

The import pipeline runs in a strict order: input filter, `preMap`, field mapping, `postMap`, submit, `postSubmit`, response transform, response mapping, `postResponseMap`. Response mapping lives on the flow's `pageProcessors[]` entry, not on the import resource, so plan it while designing the flow. Fields added in steps 2–4 never reach the next step.

There are traps. `http.relativeURI` and header templates render against the record before mapping, and an undefined path fails the request with `handlebars_template_parse_error`. That is missing data, so a retry fails the same way. A field holding `""` is defined and renders empty; a field holding null renders the text `null`. Mapping rules belong to the `writing-mappings` skill, AI agent steps to `configuring-ai-agents`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill configuring-imports -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/configuring-imports/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill configuring-imports -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill configuring-imports -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install celigo/ai configuring-imports
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill configuring-imports -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/celigo/ai --path skills/configuring-imports
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill configuring-imports -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/celigo/ai/tree/HEAD/skills/configuring-imports/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick an adaptor type for a new import
- set up an upsert or an exactly-once write
- fan out a child array with one-to-many
- pull the created record's id out of the API response
- debug a URL template that fails on an undefined field

## Example prompts
- Set up a NetSuite import that upserts on the external id
- Fan out `lineItems` with one-to-many and reference `{{record._PARENT.id}}`
- Add a `postSubmit` hook that logs the status code

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: configuring-imports
description: Configure Celigo imports -- the destination step that writes records to external systems. Use when creating or editing imports, choosing the adaptor type, setting up lookups, upsert or exactly-once writes, or file-based imports. For mapping rules, use writing-mappings; for AI agent steps, configuring-ai-agents.
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# Configuring Imports

An import is the **data destination** in a Celigo integration. It takes records from an upstream step and writes them to an external system -- REST APIs, databases, ERPs, file servers, or AI models. Every import has one adaptor type and, apart from the connection-less kinds in [Minimum Required Fields](#minimum-required-fields), is bound to exactly one connection.

Imports handle six concerns:

- **Field mapping** -- transforming source fields into the destination system's expected format (including value resolution via static maps and lookup tables). Uses Mapper 2.0 (`mappings[]` array) by default, including `NetSuiteHTTPImport`. `SalesforceImport` and `WrapperImport` support only Mapper 1.0 (`mapping.fields[]` / `mapping.lists[]`), and `NetSuiteDistributedImport` uses its own Mapper 1.0 dialect at `netsuite_da.mapping`
- **Operation logic** -- create, update, upsert, delete, attach/detach
- **Hooks** -- JavaScript pre/post processing at various pipeline stages (preMap, postMap, postSubmit). File-based imports that generate files from records also support postAggregate; an HTTP records import refuses it (422 `invalid_hook`)
- **One-to-many** -- fan out a child array already on the input record. Set `oneToMany: true` and `pathToMany` to that path (e.g., `"lineItems"`) when one source record should create one import operation per child. After fan-out the child is `record` (`{{record.sku}}`) and the parent (without the array) is `record._PARENT` (`{{record._PARENT.id}}`). Leave `pathToMany` blank when the arriving record is itself an array (grouped rows from a `groupByFields` export or a file group) -- each element then becomes the record, with no `_PARENT`. A path on an array record processes zero children and still reports success; a blank path on an object record fails with `oneToMany_error`. `oneToMany` doesn't batch by itself: templates see `batch_of_records` only when `http.batchSize` is above 1 (the default varies by API) or an RDBMS query runs `per_page`
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