Alan Wizemann
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A new .scarftemplate in the public catalog whose only content is
a Hermes skill that teaches an agent how to scaffold a new
Scarf-compatible project — dashboard, optional configuration
schema, optional cron job, AGENTS.md — from a short conversational
interview. Scaffolded projects are usable locally and cleanly
exportable as .scarftemplate bundles later.
The skill itself (~400 lines of structured markdown at
skills/scarf-template-author/SKILL.md) covers:
- When to invoke vs. when to answer inline
- The on-disk project shape Scarf expects
- A 5-question interview flow
- Full widget catalog (all 7 widget types) with JSON shapes
- Config schema design + hard invariants (no defaults on secrets,
`contents.config` must match field count, etc.)
- Cron-job design including the {{PROJECT_DIR}} gotcha
- Step-by-step file writing (dashboard, manifest, AGENTS.md, README)
- Testing + catalog validation instructions
- Common pitfalls + source-of-truth references
Delivered as a .scarftemplate so the install flow's normal
safeguards apply: preview sheet shows one project + one skill
+ zero cron jobs + no config step, uninstall drops both the
project dir and the namespaced skill folder via the existing
lock-file mechanism.
Scope per user sign-off: blank-slate / fully conversational for
v1. Pre-baked archetypes (`monitor`, `dev-dashboard`, etc.) are
deferred to v1.1 pending real usage data on what shapes users
actually ask for.
New Swift test exercises the bundle through the installer's
plan builder — asserts manifest shape, that the skill lands at
~/.hermes/skills/templates/awizemann-template-author/scarf-template-author/SKILL.md,
and that no-config templates correctly skip the manifest cache.
58/58 Swift tests pass; 24/24 Python tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scarf Templates
The community template catalog for Scarf — a macOS GUI for the Hermes AI agent. Each subdirectory here is one installable project template. Browse the live catalog with live dashboard previews at https://awizemann.github.io/scarf/templates/.
What's a template?
A .scarftemplate bundle ships:
- A pre-configured project dashboard (widgets for stats, lists, text, charts).
- A cross-agent
AGENTS.md(agents.md standard) that tells Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, Jules, Copilot, Zed, etc. how to work with the project. - Optional skills, cron jobs, optional per-agent instruction shims (
CLAUDE.md,GEMINI.md,.cursorrules,.github/copilot-instructions.md), and an optional memory appendix.
Users install with one click from the catalog site or by opening a .scarftemplate file in Scarf.
Layout
Each template lives at templates/<github-handle>/<template-name>/ with:
templates/<github-handle>/<template-name>/
├── staging/ source tree
│ ├── template.json manifest (id, name, version, contents claim)
│ ├── README.md shown on catalog detail page
│ ├── AGENTS.md required cross-agent instructions
│ ├── dashboard.json rendered as a live preview on the catalog site
│ ├── instructions/… optional per-agent shims
│ ├── skills/… optional namespaced skills
│ ├── cron/jobs.json optional cron job definitions
│ └── memory/append.md optional memory appendix
├── <template-name>.scarftemplate built bundle (zipped staging/), committed as-is
└── screenshots/ optional PNGs for the detail page
The built .scarftemplate is served directly from raw.githubusercontent.com — the catalog's Install button links at:
scarf://install?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awizemann/scarf/main/templates/<author>/<name>/<name>.scarftemplate
Contributing a template
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full submission walkthrough. tl;dr: fork, drop a template under templates/<your-handle>/<your-name>/, open a PR. A CI check validates the bundle; a maintainer reviews the content.
Catalog metadata
catalog.json at this directory is the aggregate index that the website reads. It's regenerated by the maintainer on merge — do not modify it in your PR, the build script will take care of it.
Current templates
| Template | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| site-status-checker | awizemann | Daily HTTP uptime check for a user-editable list of URLs. Dashboard + cron + AGENTS.md. |