find-template

Find Template

Propose the best-fit workspace scaffold for a described use case. This is an advisory skill — it does not create a repo. When the user then wants to spin one up, delegate to the appropriate cluster plugin's new-workspace skill (e.g. /research-space:new-workspace, /workspace-foundational:new-workspace, etc.) with the chosen variant.

Background

This skill absorbs the recommender from the retired new-repo-from-template plugin. In the new model, each of the ~27 cluster plugins in the danielrosehill marketplace bundles its own variants; this skill's job is to route the user to the right plugin + variant, not to enumerate 111 standalone template repos.

Inputs

The user describes what they want to do — e.g.:

• "what template should I use to research distribution platforms for Suno-created music?"
• "got a template for tracking expenses across multiple family members?"
• "which scaffold fits best for a single-company deep dive on a potential acquisition target?"
• "I want to map the AI coding assistant ecosystem — anything for that?"
• "I need to parse a stack of PDF reports and pull out the key claims."

Extract the intent (what the workspace is for), not just surface keywords.

Steps

1. Classify the intent

Bucket the request into one of:

• Research / investigation → likely research-space plugin
• Report parsing / document triage → workspace-foundational (report-parsing variant)
• Context / RAG maintenance → workspace-foundational (context-management variant)
• Inventory / asset tracking → workspace-foundational (inventory-analysis variant)
• Web analytics → workspace-foundational (web-analytics variant)
• Career / job search / salary → career plugin
• Purchasing / procurement → purchasing plugin
• Region-specific shopping → shopping plugin
• Knowledge base / wiki / SOP → knowledge-documentation plugin
• Content writing / blog / thinkpiece → content-writing plugin
• Household / personal finance → personal-finance plugin
• Filesystem organisation → filesystem-organiser plugin
• Generic ongoing workspace → workspace-foundational (generic-workspace variant)

If the request genuinely doesn't fit, say so and suggest the generic-workspace variant as a starting point.

2. Return a shortlist

Output 2–4 ranked recommendations. Each entry:

**<plugin-name>:<variant>** — <one-line purpose>
Why: <rationale tying the variant's purpose to the user's stated intent>

• Top pick with a 1–2 sentence rationale.
• Runner-ups with one line each on why they might also fit and why they're ranked below.
• If nothing fits well: suggest workspace-foundational:generic-workspace and note the user could always adopt a more specific cluster later.

3. Offer the next step

End with a single line offering to proceed: "Want me to spin up <plugin-name>:<variant> as a new repo? (I'll hand off to /<plugin-name>:new-workspace.)"

Do not auto-invoke any new-workspace skill — wait for the user to confirm.

Guardrails

• Never invent plugins or variants that don't exist in the danielrosehill marketplace.
• If the user's description is ambiguous, ask one clarifying question before recommending (e.g. "Is this a one-off report or an ongoing workspace?").
• Don't dump the full cluster map — shortlist only.
• Prefer narrower variants (e.g. inventory-analysis) over generic ones (generic-workspace) when the intent clearly fits.