Skeleton

Portable repository archetypes installed by Copier or composed offline by rune init.

Portable base

Copier installs templates/base directly and records the template release in answers.yaml:

copier copy https://github.com/runedeck/skeleton.git weather-stats

Later updates arrive through copier update, from a tag or from a skeleton commit. make install needs the full pinned toolchain, Copier included. make validate and the review lanes run without it.

Composable templates

A repository created by Rune is the union of templates applied in order: base always, then every template named with --with. Later templates override earlier files. One exception is .gitignore, whose fragments concatenate across templates.

Template	Contents
templates/base/	hooks, CI, Makefile, license, KEYS, editor and git config, agent briefs, schemas
templates/rust/, python/, shell/, node/	toolchain files and the toolchain's .gitignore fragment
templates/tool/, module/, spine/	README shape and role-specific files

The directory is flat and open: a new template is a new directory. Composition is idempotent because existing files are never overwritten. .gitignore accumulates missing fragment entries without duplicating existing ones.

The toolchain .gitignore fragments come from github/gitignore. For toolchains without a curated template, composition uses the matching file from a local clone of that repository.

Rune usage

rune init weather-stats --with rust,tool
rune init --with python
rune init weather-stats

Without --with, rune init opens a picker over the available templates. Rune embeds the same portable base for offline scaffolding and writes Copier-compatible answers metadata.

Placeholders

Template files carry ${VARIABLE} placeholders resolved at scaffold time:

Variable	Content
${NAME}	repo slug, kebab-case (weather-stats)
${TITLE}	human title (Weather Stats)
${BRIEF}	one-sentence description
${OWNER}	GitHub owner

Copier-rendered files use the .jinja suffix, which is removed in generated repositories. Files without the suffix are copied verbatim, including GitHub Actions expressions such as ${{ github.ref }}.

License

Every generated repository defaults to EUPL-1.2. The license file is part of templates/base/.