Orchard Harvest 2026 survey, Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills - This week in Orchard (27/02/2026)
This week, you can see an interesting demo of the Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills repository, which provides enhanced AI-assisted theming with agent skills. But before that, let us quickly mention allowing mailto and tel links in the HTML sanitizer configuration and allowing an override of Reverse Proxy from the configuration! Oh, and did we mention that we have just created a survey for Orchard Harvest 2026?
Orchard Core updates
Allow "mailto" and "tel" links in HTML sanitizer configuration
Imagine you have a Link Field where you want to enter a value like mailto:[email protected]. But the field validation rejects it as an invalid URL, even though mailto: is a valid and commonly used URI scheme for links. So, the Link Field should accept mailto: URLs and treat them as valid links, allowing the content item to be saved. And this is caused by HTML sanitization because the HTML Sanitizer in Orchard Core does not allow mailto: by default.
So, the fix here, by Georg von Kries, is to add mailto: and even tel: to the list of allowed URL schemes in the HTML sanitizer, enabling support for email links and phone numbers in sanitized HTML content.
Allow override Reverse Proxy from configuration
You can configure the reverse proxy settings from the admin UI by navigating to Settings -> Reverse Proxy (if you have enabled the Reverse Proxy Configuration feature under Tools -> Features, of course). The following settings are available:
- X-Forwarded-For: Enables forwarding of the client IP address.
- X-Forwarded-Host: Enables forwarding of the original host requested by the client.
- X-Forwarded-Proto: Enables forwarding of the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) used by the client.
These settings are stored in the site configuration and can be managed per tenant.
And from now on, you can use configuration values from appsettings.json to configure reverse proxy settings by calling the ConfigureReverseProxySettings() extension method on OrchardCoreBuilder when initializing the app. Check out the Reverse Proxy module's documentation to see the configuration options and configuration precedence, keeping in mind security and multi-tenant considerations. Thanks for the contributions from Georg von Kries and Hisham Bin Ateya!
Demos
Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills
We would like to show you our agent skills for Orchard Core (a simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise) that can help you with many Orchard Core-related tasks, such as implementing appropriate shape templates with correct alternates. It can update recipes and even create workflows for you. So, there are a lot of features in our repository, as you can see in the screen below, too!
In this demo, Márk Bartha from Lombiq shows you how he re-implemented his own personal website using agents, but agents still can't really implement Orchard Core shapes/recipes/etc. reliably. One reason is that the documentation is still not ideal for them to consume and learn from. An option would be to let the agent explore the Orchard Core source itself and figure things out, but that would require a lot of context.
How about recreating the documentation brick by brick and optimizing it for agents? Well, that's what you will find in this solution. The heart of this solution is this TASK-MAP.md file.
This is something the agent must read and consume continuously. It provides agents with a map of scenario types the user might request. Like, create content type/part/field definitions, or use particular templates to create shapes and things like these. It can even connect to a SQLite database to retrieve content items, so you can export them to recipes without using deployment plans.
The way Márk built this is that he told the agent to implement an actual task, discover all related information (like all the Liquid filters), and put everything into an agent-optimized Markdown template. The same goes for every other piece of knowledge he needed to develop his personal site, such as Bag Parts and Flow Parts.
Are you curious about how Márk built his personal website that is completely generated by AI? And the showcase of our Lombiq Tailwind Agent Skills repository, which contains agent skills for Tailwind v4 development tasks? Then head to YouTube for a demo!
Share your experience, feedback, and contributions so we can keep refining the skills in the open and roll improvements back based on real project usage.
News from the community
Orchard Harvest 2026 survey
After last year, the Orchard Harvest Conference will be held again in 2026. Last time, it was held in Prague, and for this year, we're planning to bring it to North America.
To make that decision with real community input, we've put together a short questionnaire about where you'd be interested in attending Orchard Harvest in principle, and what you'd need to make it work (location, travel, budget, etc.).
If you've ever attended Harvest, thought about attending, or are just active in the Orchard Core community, your answers would really help us shape the event. You can fill out the questionnaire here.
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