canned-prompts/reference/README.md
tegwick dc615ef530 Register with Custodian State Hub and seed format open-questions workplan
Register canned-prompts under agents / practice (topic
c1d199b6-55ee-4db6-b49e-257a9f0f15ac, workplan prefix CANP-WP) via
`statehub register`, then replace the generated placeholders with
repo-specific facts.

- SCOPE.md: real boundaries drawn from INTENT.md's deliberate boundary,
  current state (spec v0.1 + reference CLI, 3/3 tests pass, example
  round-trips), and the developer workflow.
- AGENTS.md: drop the unresolved {CREDENTIAL_ROUTING} template token left
  by the generator.
- CANP-WP-0001: bootstrap tasks closed.
- CANP-WP-0002: new workplan carrying the five § 23 open questions promoted
  from "experience will decide" to "decide for v0.2" — optional-input
  defaults (static or derived), registry namespaces/ownership, prompt
  composition, canonical eval schemas, typed context/dependency contracts —
  plus two reference-implementation conformance defects found in review
  (prerelease versions sort as newest; copy_immutable packages the whole
  source directory).

Also lands the previously untracked seed: INTENT.md, the CPF v0.1 spec,
the reference CLI, and examples/pqrst-estimate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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canned-prompts reference CLI

This is intentionally a small reference implementation, not the intended final architecture.

It demonstrates six verbs:

add      PATH
search   QUERY
show     ID
render   ID --set key=value
install  ID [--version VERSION]
publish  PATH

The implementation uses a local catalog plus a filesystem registry and performs no model calls.

Stores

Default locations:

~/.canned-prompts/catalog
~/.canned-prompts/registry

Catalog and registry both store packages as:

<store>/<id path>/<version>/...

For example:

~/.canned-prompts/catalog/practice/pqrst-estimate/0.1.0/

Design choices

  • YAML manifest via PyYAML.
  • {{ name }} template substitution only.
  • No arbitrary expression/code execution.
  • Published versions are immutable by default.
  • install copies from registry to catalog.
  • add copies a package directly to catalog.
  • search, show, and render operate on catalog packages.

Use this implementation to challenge the format. Replace it once real usage reveals the right architecture.