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Alan Wizemann fb7a80f191 fix: Run Now agent-run timing + non-404 webview placeholder
Two independent fixes that both blocked the "install → Run Now → see
the Site tab render" loop.

1. CronViewModel.runNow stopped blocking on `cron tick`. Previously
   the UI waited up to 60 s on the tick before deciding whether the
   job succeeded, so any agent run that did real work (an LLM call +
   a few HTTP GETs + a file write = easily 90 s+) surfaced a false
   "Run failed" toast while the job kept running in the background.
   Dashboard updates landed minutes later, confusing the user.

   New shape: show "Agent started — dashboard will update when it
   finishes" the instant `cron run` queues the job, then call `cron
   tick` with a 300 s timeout to force execution. Tick failures are
   logged but don't overwrite the started-toast — HermesFileWatcher
   picks up the dashboard.json rewrite automatically when the agent
   finishes.

2. site-status-checker's webview widget pointed at
   `github.com/awizemann/scarf/tree/main/templates/awizemann/...`.
   The templates/ path only exists on project-sharing, not main, so
   GitHub returned 404 in the Site tab until the first cron run
   replaced the URL with the user's configured site. Switched the
   placeholder to `awizemann.github.io/scarf/` which always renders.

Bundle + catalog rebuilt against the updated dashboard.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-23 17:14:29 +02:00
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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.