Filter in aem package manger has 1:1 mapping with its filter node. It will never automatically pulls the references via package manager. So you need to update the filter to include assets and experience fragments 

401 resolves to authentication error.can you share the curl log that you are getting after executing the curl command on step9

It seems the aem ask api that you are using on your Pom. Xml doesn’t exist.latest aem sdk that I can see on maven repo is https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.adobe.aem/aem-sdk-api/2023.7.12549.20230704T084019Z-230601try using this one 

Follow this document for creating a new site. I am expecting that you already have template and component already created for new site or you might be using the template, component of existing site.https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/sites/administering/s...

Offline compaction and data store garbage collection will help you in solving 503 missing authentication exception.the thing that you explained above leads to conclusion that you cling operations is corrupting your repository so would suggest you to check your cloning activity about the negative res...

Doesn’t you should either work with resource.adaptTo() or resourceresolver.adapto() instead of request.adaptTo() ?please check this https://wcm.io/testing/aem-mock/usage.html

You will have group coming from ldap managed via aem admin console , similar group you also need to create on aem user groups with appropriate acts and map the ldap user group in member section of the aem user group. 

All the selector pages should flush automatically with publishing of main page. You might check the /statfileslevel and  /invalidatesection of your dispatcher configuration which works for doing the auto invalidation of the resource if certain node is activated/deactivated. check this blog.  https:/...

Yes, In Touch UI , there is resourceType "granite/ui/components/foundation/include" which is equivalent of cq include of classic UI.create node in aem that needs to be included in each dialog and include it on all components and you can use sling:order before to align it after some tab in your compo...

Your aem instance there should be out of the box rendition being generated, you can customize that to create the rendition size that you intended to work with. Next on html you can work with image tag with data-interchange option which will automatically loads the image as per device