# writing-mappings

Writes field mappings and transforms for Celigo integrations: Mapper 2.0, Transformation 2.0, lookups and response mapping.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3000 installs · ★ 4
- 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/writing-mappings/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/writing-mappings

## What it does

The skill covers the data reshaping layer in Celigo: how fields from one system become fields for another. Four systems are in scope — Mapper 2.0 on imports, Mapper 1.0 for NetSuite DA, Salesforce and `WrapperImport`, Transformation 2.0 on exports, and response mapping on `pageProcessors[]`. Lookups get their own section, split into static, cached and live.

One rule runs through the whole thing: take every source path from a real record. Read the import's `sampleData`, the export's `mockOutput`, or the retry data of a failing record before writing an `extract`. A name the user mentions is not the source field's name, and a path that doesn't exist maps nothing without raising an error. There's a second trap worth knowing. The platform has no single-field update, so every save replaces the whole import, export or flow document — start from the current document and send all of it back.

Before editing an existing import, check which syntax it uses: `mappings[]` is Mapper 2.0, `mapping.fields[]` is Mapper 1.0. Plenty of older HTTP and RDBMS imports still run 1.0, and the two must never be mixed. Transformations pay off in two situations: several sources feeding one pipeline, or genuinely messy source data. With a single well-shaped source there's no reason to add one.

## Requirements
- Works with: Salesforce

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install celigo/ai writing-mappings
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill writing-mappings -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/writing-mappings/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map import fields through `mappings[]` in Mapper 2.0
- migrate an old import from Mapper 1.0 to 2.0 without mixing syntaxes
- set up a static or cached lookup to translate values
- carry a lookup response value into later steps with `responseMapping`
- build a Transformation 2.0 rule in create or modify mode

## Example prompts
- read the `sampleData` for this import and write the mapping for the `email` field
- rewrite this import's `mapping.fields[]` as Mapper 2.0 `mappings[]`
- add a cached lookup that translates status codes

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: writing-mappings
description: Write field mappings and transforms in Celigo integrations. Covers Mapper 2.0 (imports), Transformation 2.0 (exports), lookups, response mapping, and Mapper 1.0 (NetSuite DA/Salesforce). Use when editing mappings[], transform{}, responseMapping, or lookup configurations.
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# Writing Mappings and Transforms

Mappings and transforms are the **data reshaping layer** in Celigo integrations. They control how fields from one system translate into fields for another. Mappings are used across flows, APIs, and tools.

**Take every source path from a real record.** Read what the step receives -- the import's `sampleData`, the source export's `mockOutput` or a recent run's records, or a failing record's retry data -- before writing an `extract`. A name the user mentions, or the destination field's name, isn't the source field's name, and a path that doesn't exist maps nothing, with no error ([Understand the source data shape](#2-understand-the-source-data-shape)).

## How to Run the Steps

This skill names each step by what it reads or changes; the exact calls depend on how you reach the account. Read the one reference that matches your tools -- both follow the workflows and sections below, and add how to save and check a change:

- **Celigo MCP tools** (`list_imports`, `upsert_import`, `get_schema`, ...) -- [references/mcp.md](references/mcp.md)
- **The `celigo` CLI** -- [references/cli.md](references/cli.md)

Reading resources, sample records, and metadata is read-only; saving a mapping, transform, or response mapping writes to the account. The platform has no single-field update for any of them, so every save replaces the whole import, export, or flow document -- start from the current document and send all of it back. To check a saved change, test-run the flow: a test run never executes the flow's imports and doesn't advance its delta state, but it still calls the systems behind the steps it runs.

## Mapping Systems

Four systems handle data reshaping:
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