| name | wendy-template-app |
| description | Use when creating a Wendy app from an existing Wendy template or sample, especially when the user names an app archetype such as realsense-camera, camera-feed, camera-feed-yolo, voice-assistant, audio, fullstack, simple-api, or asks to create a Wendy app in a new directory. |
Wendy Template-First App Workflow
Prefer adapting known Wendy templates before hand-writing a new scaffold. If the requested app sounds like an existing Wendy archetype, inspect templates first, then build from the closest match.
Find templates
Search in this order:
- Local sibling repo:
../templates from a Wendy workspace, or /Users/maximilianalexander/wendylabsinc/templates when available.
- A
templates/ directory in the current workspace.
- GitHub repo
wendylabsinc/templates if local source is missing or stale.
Useful searches:
rg -n "realsense|camera|yolo|voice|audio|fullstack|simple-api" ../templates
find ../templates -name template.json -o -name wendy.json -o -name Dockerfile
Read the candidate template's template.json, wendy.json, Dockerfile, and main source files before copying or rewriting code. Use meta.json to discover template names and descriptions when present.
If no local templates repo is available, clone or inspect the GitHub source in a temporary location before building:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wendylabsinc/templates /tmp/wendy-templates
Create from a template
When the template is available through wendy init, prefer explicit non-interactive flags:
mkdir -p <destination>
cd <destination>
wendy init \
--app-id <app-id> \
--target wendyos \
--language <language> \
--template <template-name> \
--var APP_ID=<app-id> \
--var PORT=<port> \
--assistant skip \
--git-init no
Pass every required template.json variable with --var; otherwise the command may prompt. If wendy init cannot express the needed customization, copy the closest template into the requested destination and adapt it directly.
Adapt safely
- Preserve the template's proven Dockerfile, entrypoint, readiness probe, hooks, and entitlements unless the requested app needs a real change.
- Validate
wendy.json after edits.
- If hardware is involved, use
wendy-device-ops to inspect device capabilities before changing entitlements.
- If source behavior is unclear, inspect
wendylabsinc/templates before inventing a replacement.
- Keep template-derived app IDs, ports, README text, and paths consistent with the user's requested directory.
RealSense note
For a prompt like "make me a Wendy app with the realsense-camera app in ./foo-bar", first look for python/realsense-camera in wendylabsinc/templates. Its template declares APP_ID and PORT variables and uses USB plus host networking for the RealSense multi-stream viewer.
