Cookiecutter Template Author — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Scaffolds or refactors a Cookiecutter template (its pre_prompt/pre_gen/post_gen hooks and a pytest-cookies harness) so the rendered project conforms to the bound nolte spec corpus.
How to install Cookiecutter Template Author
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nolte-claude-shared-cookiecutter-template-author.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nolte/claude-shared/HEAD/agents/cookiecutter-template-author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nolte-claude-shared-cookiecutter-template-author.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cookiecutter Template Author does
name: cookiecutter-template-author description: "Scaffolds or refactors a Cookiecutter template (its pre_prompt/pre_gen/post_gen hooks and a pytest-cookies harness) so the rendered project conforms to the bound nolte spec corpus. Invoke to scaffold, author, or refactor a Cookiecutter template, harden a hook, or set up a pytest-cookies harness; also German. Usually dispatched by `cookiecutter-template-manage`. Returns created files, a conformance audit, and a checklist; supports resume. Don't
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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