Using Templates

The Templates panel lets you browse the catalog, preview any template, and apply it to the active workspace in a single click.

Templates panel

Applying a template

Open the Templates panel from the primary sidebar.
Browse or search for a template.
Click Preview to inspect the files and prompts it will add.
Click Apply to workspace.
Fill in any template variables (name, target folder, options).
Ptah writes the files and — if the template contains agent or skill definitions — registers them with the current session.

Template variables

Most templates declare variables in their metadata, for example:

variables:
  - name: featureName
    prompt: 'Feature name (kebab-case)'
    required: true
  - name: useSignals
    prompt: 'Use Angular signals?'
    type: boolean
    default: true

You’ll be prompted for each variable before the template is applied.

Agent templates

Agent templates are a special case: applying one installs the agent into the workspace’s .claude/agents/ folder so it becomes spawnable via the orchestrator and visible to third-party AI clients that read that folder.

<workspace>/.claude/agents/
├── frontend-developer.md
├── backend-developer.md
└── security-auditor.md

Chaining templates with orchestration

Templates pair well with the /orchestrate skill from ptah-core. A common pattern:

Apply a project scaffold template.
Apply one or more agent templates for the stack.
Run /orchestrate <task> to let the orchestrator delegate to those agents.