If your team uses the App Repository to manage scoped applications, you know the post-clone cleanup process can be a real headache. After cloning an instance, an admin has to manually open each app, switch to its scope, and click a UI action to convert it back to development mode — one at a time. For teams with dozens or even hundreds of apps, this can take days.

To solve this, I built two tools (with a big assist from my friend and fellow ServiceNow developer Eric Riemer) that automate both steps: