scitex-template

name	scitex-template
description	[WHAT] Project scaffolding cloner + code snippet library for the SciTeX ecosystem — 6 templates (pip-project, minimal, cloud-module, research, singularity, paper) vendored in a single monorepo and populated into user targets via a `~/.scitex/template/cache/` shallow-clone. [WHEN] Starting a new SciTeX-flavored project (pip package, research repo, paper, container, or cloud module) and you want the canonical layout. [HOW] `scitex-template clone <id> <target>`, or `from scitex_template import clone_template_from_cache`. MCP: `template_clone`, `template_list`.
user-invocable	false
tags	["scitex-template"]
invocation	["clone a scitex research template","create a new scitex-* package skeleton","scaffold a pip project"]

scitex-template

Standalone cloner for the SciTeX ecosystem's six project templates. Every template lives vendored under templates/<id>/ in this monorepo. Wheel stays ~100 KB; content populated on first use by a shallow-clone into ~/.scitex/template/cache/.

The six templates

id	purpose
pip-project	Generic Python pip package (CI, tests, docs)
minimal	Minimal scitex-* starter (src/tests/pyproject only)
cloud-module	SciTeX Cloud workspace module (TS + Python)
research	Full research project + writer + scholar + MNIST
singularity	Apptainer/Singularity recipe + build scripts
paper	LaTeX manuscript scaffold

Public surface

scitex-template list-templates            # enumerate templates
scitex-template show-info research        # one template's metadata
scitex-template clone research ./my-proj  # populate from cache
scitex-template refresh-cache             # re-clone monorepo

from scitex_template import clone_template_from_cache, load_registry

clone_template_from_cache("research", "./my-proj")
for entry in load_registry():
    print(entry.id, entry.version, entry.description)

MCP tools: template_list, template_info, template_clone, template_cache_refresh.

Sub-skills

• 01_installation.md, 02_quick-start.md, 03_python-api.md, 04_cli-reference.md, 05_mcp-tools.md
• 10_project-templates.md, 11_code-templates.md, 12_git-strategies.md, 13_config-generators.md, 14_scholar-writer-integration.md
• 20_env-vars.md

Architecture

• Wheel small, content in git. templates/<id>/ excluded from wheel (~22 MB); first clone_* runs git clone --depth 1 into ~/.scitex/template/cache/.
• Local-state per 01_arch_06 — cache at ~/.scitex/template/cache/ (honors SCITEX_DIR).
• Downstream-clean per 01_arch_02 — zero runtime dep on the scitex umbrella for the cache fast-path; legacy remote-clone uses scitex.git via [legacy] extra.