Preset Creator

Use the current contract

Treat packages/preset/src/preset.contract.ts as the contract and packages/preset/assets/software-coding/presets/standard-task/preset.json as the minimal bundled example. Presets are declaration-first packages. Keep preset-specific behavior in package assets or scripts; never add a CLI core branch keyed by preset id, title, or action name.

A self-contained package contains:

<preset-id>/
  preset.json
  PRESET.md
  policy.json       # only when policyPath declares it
  scripts/          # only when an entrypoint declares a script

PRESET.md uses this frontmatter:

---
schema: preset-document/v1
description: One sentence describing the supplied workflow or shape.
whenToUse: One sentence naming the triggering situation.
---

Manifest v3

Use schema: "preset-manifest/v3". Required top-level keys are exactly:

• schema, id, title, vertical, version, kind, and outputShape
• kernelVersionRange and capabilityImports
• profiles and defaultProfile

Optional top-level keys are extends, policyPath, and entrypoints. No other top-level key is accepted. kind is template-content or process-action. outputShape is a required non-empty string.

Each profile requires id, title, completionGates, and templateSelections; it may add checkerProfile and capabilityImports. completionGates is an array of gate-id strings, including an explicit empty array when the profile has no gates. defaultProfile must name one declared profile.

Each template selection is exactly:

{
  "slot": "task.plan",
  "templateRef": "template://planning/task-plan@1",
  "materializeAs": "task_plan.md",
  "localePolicy": { "prefer": "project", "fallback": "en-US" }
}

localePolicy.prefer is project, preset, or explicit; fallback is zh-CN or en-US.

Top-level capabilityImports items require id, kind, version, and a boolean required. Profile and entrypoint capability items use id, kind, and version, with an optional boolean required. Valid kinds are checker, scaffold, projection, command, template, and raw-fs.

Minimal valid package

Use this manifest shape:

{
  "schema": "preset-manifest/v3",
  "id": "example-note",
  "title": "Example Note",
  "vertical": "software/coding",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "kind": "template-content",
  "outputShape": "repository-diff",
  "kernelVersionRange": { "min": "1.0.0", "maxExclusive": "2.0.0" },
  "capabilityImports": [],
  "profiles": [
    {
      "id": "baseline",
      "title": "Baseline",
      "checkerProfile": "standard",
      "completionGates": ["ci", "code-doc-reconciliation"],
      "templateSelections": []
    }
  ],
  "defaultProfile": "baseline"
}

Validate the package directory, not an individual manifest file:

ha preset validate --source /path/to/example-note --json

Continue only when the report has "valid": true and an empty issues array.

Script entrypoints

A v3 entrypoint is a named object with exactly these fields:

{
  "type": "script",
  "intent": "Produce a bounded preset result.",
  "inputs": [
    { "name": "title", "type": "string", "required": true }
  ],
  "requires": [
    { "id": "capability:input/v1", "kind": "command", "version": "1" }
  ],
  "produces": [
    { "id": "capability:result/v1", "kind": "projection", "version": "1" }
  ],
  "sideEffects": [],
  "command": "scripts/run.mjs"
}

Input types are string, number, boolean, or json. intent is a plain string. requires, produces, and sideEffects are flat capability-ref arrays. The command path must name a regular package-local file. The script reads its context from HARNESSPRESETCONTEXT; do not invent undeclared filesystem permissions.

Migrating v2 packages

Do not relabel a v2 object and leave its fields in place. Apply these mappings:

• Add the required top-level outputShape when absent.
• Keep profile ids, titles, optional checker profile, string completion-gate

ids, and valid current template selections.

• Convert script inputs from an object/map to the v3 array of

{name,type,required} only when the types and requiredness are explicit.

• Convert a structured/object intent to one plain string only when its exact

user-visible meaning is present.

• Replace nested capability selectors with flat requires, produces, and

sideEffects refs only when current providers are explicitly known.

• Discard v2 raw-filesystem reads and writes path-glob fields. They have no

v3 manifest counterpart. A raw-fs capability ref names a provider; it does not restore those old path scopes.

• Remove any entrypoint whose authority or input meaning cannot be expressed

without guessing. Preserve its user-visible procedure in PRESET.md and report the removed behavior to the owner.

• Delete all unknown v2 keys. Validation is exact-field and fails closed.

Template assets

Preset manifests select templates; the vertical template catalog owns template metadata and Markdown assets own bodies. Use template://<id>@<version> references. Do not inline template bodies in the manifest. Run ha template list to discover current builtin declarations and validate that every selected slot, path, locale policy, and required anchor resolves.

Workflow

1. State the preset job in one sentence and choose template-content or

process-action.

1. Read the v3 contract and a nearby bundled manifest; do not copy a v2 schema.
2. Create preset.json and PRESET.md, then add only declared policy, template,

or script files.

1. Run ha preset validate --source <package-directory> --json.
2. Run ha preset install --source <package-directory> --dry-run --json before an

installation and inspect its issues.

1. Add resolver, materialization, permission, or execution tests at the tier

matching the behavior. Put exactly one // harness-test-tier: declaration on the first line of every new Node test file.

Review checklist

• The schema is preset-manifest/v3; outputShape is present.
• Top-level, profile, selection, capability, input, and entrypoint fields are

exact current-contract fields.

• profiles is non-empty and defaultProfile resolves.
• Completion gates are string ids; template selections use the current nested

locale policy.

• No v2 reads, writes, object input/intent, or nested capability selector

survives.

• PRESET.md has valid preset-document/v1 frontmatter.
• Package validation reports valid with no issues.
• No preset-specific behavior was added to generic CLI dispatch.