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BPA code INST: Custom and third-party packages and bundles
When Adobe's Best Practices Analyzer reports INST, it has found custom and third-party packages and bundles on your AEM instance. Here is what that means for a move to AEM as a Cloud Service.
What to do
Confirm each package has a Cloud Service compatible version and is deployed through Cloud Manager.
Can it be fixed automatically?
- Not by Adobe's Content Transformer, which only handles content findings (ACV, CAV, DOPI, OAUI, PCX, REP and URS).
- In our pipeline, automation for this pattern is rated partial: agents prepare part of the change; design decisions stay with an engineer.
How much work is it?
Our readiness scan plans about 1 hour per finding at MAJOR importance (1.5× for CRITICAL, 0.5× for ADVISORY), plus a small fixed cost, capped at 120 hours for this code. INFO rows are treated as inventory and not costed. These are planning figures, not a quote.
Reading the row in results.csv
Filter the code column for INST. The importance column says how urgent each row is, identifier usually holds the repository path, and message describes the finding. See how to read a BPA report for every column.
Source: Adobe Pattern Detector documentation for INST. Checked 19 October 2026.