diff --git a/Control/AthenaCommon/share/ThinCAWrapper.sh b/Control/AthenaCommon/share/ThinCAWrapper.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10d4ee14c69582548abf152c2f50fd366d71bea3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Control/AthenaCommon/share/ThinCAWrapper.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2002-2019 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+#
+# Demonstator for a thin wrapper to execute configurations with the CA
+#
+
+topScriptSearchPath="."
+
+if [ ! -z "${WorkDir_DIR}" ]
+ then
+    topScriptSearchPath="$topScriptSearchPath $WorkDir_DIR_DIR/python" 
+fi
+
+if [ ! -z "${Athena_DIR}" ]
+ then
+    topScriptSearchPath="$topScriptSearchPath $Athena_DIR/python" 
+fi
+
+topscriptfile=`echo $otherargs | cut -d " " -f 1`
+scriptargs=`echo $otherargs | cut -d " " -f 2-`
+
+
+for pp in $topScriptSearchPath
+do
+    if [ -f "$pp/$topscriptfile" ]
+	then
+	topscript="$pp/$topscriptfile"
+	break
+    fi
+done
+
+
+if [[ -z $topscript  ]];
+    then
+    echo "Could not find python script $topscriptfile"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+python $topscript $scriptargs
+
+
+
diff --git a/Control/AthenaCommon/share/athena.py b/Control/AthenaCommon/share/athena.py
index 1cc99b8102a5f5f78df4a64fff8b78c52062fb44..4efe84d8b7477633b8a8cbbc6a01c9fed6192dcb 100755
--- a/Control/AthenaCommon/share/athena.py
+++ b/Control/AthenaCommon/share/athena.py
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 # defaults
 export USETCMALLOC=0
 export USEIMF=0
-
+USECA=0
+otherargs=""
 # but use tcmalloc by default if TCMALLOCDIR is defined
 if [ -n "$TCMALLOCDIR" ]; then
     export USETCMALLOC=1
@@ -27,12 +28,20 @@ do
 	--imf)           USEIMF=1;;
 	--preloadlib*)     export ATHENA_ADD_PRELOAD=${a#*=};;
 	--drop-and-reload) export ATHENA_DROP_RELOAD=1;;
+	--CA)              USECA=1;;
+	*)               otherargs="$otherargs $a";;
     esac
 done
 
 # Do the actual preloading via LD_PRELOAD
 source `which athena_preload.sh `
 
+if [ $USECA -eq 1 ] 
+then
+    source `which ThinCAWrapper.sh` 
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 # Now resurrect ourselves as python script
 python_path=`which python`
 "exec" "$python_path" "-tt" "$0" "$@";