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Found while verifying the repo against INTENT.md's eight success criteria for a first practical release, after CANP-WP-0002 finished. Criterion 5 is "publish a version to a registry and install it elsewhere". Installing practice/pqrst-estimate into a fresh catalog reported success, and rendering it then failed with "included package not found: practice/house-style". CANP-WP-0002-T03 introduced this — composition made a package installable but unrenderable, and nothing said so at install time. The error was honest, but reaching it after a successful-looking install is the silently-incomplete failure section 23 now names as the thing this format avoids. `add` and `install` now name declared prompt dependencies the target catalog cannot satisfy, including a package present at no matching version. They do not fetch anything: section 10 leaves dependency resolution to the consumer, and auto-installing transitively is a resolver — a separate decision from refusing to hand over a package that looks fine and is not. Whether `install` should offer `--with-dependencies` is left open as a design question rather than smuggled in as a bug fix. Tests 81 -> 84. Recorded as CANP-WP-ADHOC-2026-09-06. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bjefh8NUiEiahN4JLwoSKM Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: opus Assistant-Process: 388925@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 3507023f-e0fd-4a1e-9d90-a0d4217d1502
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# canned-prompts reference CLI
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This is intentionally a **small reference implementation**, not the intended final architecture.
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It demonstrates eight verbs:
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```text
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add PATH
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search QUERY
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show ID
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resolve ID --set key=value
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render ID --set key=value
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eval ID
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install ID [--version VERSION]
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publish PATH
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```
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The implementation uses a local catalog plus a filesystem registry and performs no model calls.
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`resolve` and `render` are separate because the specification separates them
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(§ 5.1): resolution decides each value and may be non-deterministic, rendering
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substitutes and always is. `resolve` prints where every value came from —
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supplied, default, or fallback — before any prompt is produced.
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## Stores
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Default locations:
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```text
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~/.canned-prompts/catalog
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~/.canned-prompts/registry
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```
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A **registry** stores packages flat, because an id is unambiguous within one
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registry:
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```text
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<registry>/<id path>/<version>/...
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```
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A **catalog** is namespaced by registry, because identity is registry-scoped
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(§ 3.2) and the same id may be installed from more than one place:
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```text
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<catalog>/<registry name>/<id path>/<version>/...
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```
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For example:
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```text
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~/.canned-prompts/catalog/house/practice/pqrst-estimate/0.1.0/
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~/.canned-prompts/catalog/local/practice/pqrst-estimate/0.1.0/
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```
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A registry's name comes from its optional `registry.yaml`, and otherwise from
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its directory basename. `add` takes a package from a path rather than a
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registry, so it files it under `local` (override with `--as`).
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Commands that take an ID accept a bare id or a qualified `<registry>:<id>`.
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A bare id installed from more than one registry is reported as ambiguous
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rather than resolved by guessing.
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## Design choices
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- YAML manifest via PyYAML.
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- `{{ name }}` template substitution only.
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- No arbitrary expression/code execution.
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- Published versions are immutable by default.
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- `add`, `publish` and `install` copy only reserved paths and manifest-
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referenced files. A working directory's `.git`, virtualenv or scratch files
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never ship; whatever is left out is named on stderr.
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- Version precedence follows SemVer: a prerelease ranks below its release, and
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`any`, `newest` and `>=` skip prereleases entirely. Only an exact pin
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selects one.
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- `install` copies from registry to catalog.
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- `add` copies a package directly to catalog.
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- `search`, `show`, `resolve`, and `render` operate on catalog packages, and
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print qualified `<registry>:<id>` references.
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- `include` defaults are satisfied (inclusion is deterministic); `derive`
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defaults are reported, not run. Inclusion cycles are detected and named.
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- `eval` runs the deterministic render checks of any eval declaring the
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`canned-prompts/eval-rubric/v0.1` schema, and reports output criteria as
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declared but not run. Unrecognized schemas are skipped, not rejected. A
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failed render check exits non-zero.
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- `resolve` lists required capabilities and context dependencies, which this
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tool cannot verify, rather than implying it checked them.
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- `add` and `install` name declared prompt dependencies the catalog cannot
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satisfy. They do not fetch them — resolution is the consumer's job (§ 10) —
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but a package that looks installed and cannot render should say so.
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- An optional `registry.yaml` names a registry and records namespace claims.
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`publish` warns when a namespace is declared `closed` — it cannot
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authenticate a publisher, and says so rather than implying it checked.
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- Static input defaults are applied; **derived** defaults (§ 6.1) are not. This
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tool never calls a model, so a derived default is satisfied only by its
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static fallback `value`. Without one, `resolve` reports the input as
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unresolved and `render` refuses rather than substituting empty text.
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Use this implementation to challenge the format. Replace it once real usage reveals the right architecture.
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