setup-template-store

Setup Template Store

Configure where the user keeps their license templates. Templates are user-owned content — never store them inside the plugin install path. Default to a folder under $CLAUDE_USER_DATA, but offer to point at a user-chosen path (e.g. a dotfiles or notes repo).

Resolver

The plugin config lives at:

${CLAUDE_USER_DATA:-${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/claude-plugins}/license-populator/config.json

Template store default path:

${CLAUDE_USER_DATA:-${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/claude-plugins}/license-populator/templates/

Steps

1. Resolve the config path above. If config.json already exists and contains a valid template_store_path, report it and exit unless the user explicitly asks to reconfigure.
2. Ask the user: "Where would you like to keep your license templates? (Press enter for the default plugin data path, or provide an absolute path — e.g. a folder inside your dotfiles or notes repo.)"
3. Create the chosen directory if it does not exist.
4. Write config.json:

   {
     "template_store_path": "<absolute path>",
     "created_at": "<ISO 8601 date>"
   }
   

5. Seed the store with a README.md explaining the expected file layout:
   • One file per template, e.g. mit.md, apache-2.0.md, custom-strict-attribution.md.
   • Optional frontmatter with name, summary, permissions, conditions, limitations, placeholders (list of {{tokens}}).
   • Body is the license text with {{year}}, {{copyright_holder}}, etc. tokens for population.
6. If the user has no templates yet, offer to seed the store with stock SPDX templates (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, MPL-2.0, BSD-3-Clause, Unlicense, CC0-1.0, CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0). Fetch from https://spdx.org/licenses/<id>.json (licenseText field) and convert standard tokens (<year>, <copyright holders>) to {{year}} / {{copyright_holder}}.
7. Report the final config path and template store path.

Notes

• Never write user templates under ~/.claude/plugins/.
• Treat template_store_path as a pointer; the actual files belong to the user.