The curated registry for .it templates — browse agent definitions, workflow patterns, and document templates.

Built with Next.js 14, MongoDB, and Tailwind CSS.

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Copy environment variables
cp .env.local.example .env.local
# Edit .env.local with your MongoDB URI and admin token

# Run development server
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

MongoDB Setup

1. Create a DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB cluster
2. Create a database user with read/write permissions
3. Add your IP to the trusted sources (or 0.0.0.0/0 for Vercel)
4. Get your connection string from the cluster dashboard
5. Add MONGODB_URI to .env.local

Create indexes

Run this once after connecting:

db.templates.createIndex({ slug: 1 }, { unique: true });
db.templates.createIndex({ category: 1, status: 1 });
db.templates.createIndex({ tags: 1 });
db.templates.createIndex({ status: 1, createdAt: -1 });
db.templates.createIndex(
  { name: "text", description: "text", tags: "text" },
  { name: "search_index" },
);

Seed starter templates

This inserts curated templates from seeds/templates/ into MongoDB. Safe to run multiple times — existing templates are skipped.

Seeds Directory

The seeds/ directory holds all curated template content:

seeds/
├── seed.ts              # Standalone seeding script
└── templates/           # 60 .it templates + 60 .data.json files
    ├── business/        # Invoices, contracts, proposals, purchase orders, …
    ├── reports/         # Quarterly, incident, audit, compliance, …
    ├── editorial/       # Blog posts, newsletters, press releases, …
    ├── book/            # Novel outlines, technical books, children's books, …
    ├── personal/        # Résumés, cover letters, wedding plans, …
    ├── agent/           # Support, onboarding, sales, code-review agents, …
    ├── organization/    # Policies, handbooks, meeting minutes, …
    └── developer/       # API docs, changelogs, runbooks, …

Each .it file is a self-contained IntentText template. Its meta: block provides the name, description, domain, and optional theme. A paired .data.json file supplies example merge data.

The seed script (seeds/seed.ts or npm run seed) reads every template, parses its meta block, and publishes it to MongoDB under the intenttext organization account with tier: "curated" and status: "approved".

Templates are content, not code — they live here in the Hub repo, not in the core parser.

Deploy

1. Push to GitHub
2. Import repo in Vercel dashboard
3. Add environment variables:
   • MONGODB_URI
   • REQUIRE_APPROVAL=false
   • ADMIN_TOKEN
   • NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL
4. Deploy
5. Run seed: npx ts-node lib/seed.ts (with production MONGODB_URI)

API

Coming Soon

• GitHub OAuth — submit templates with your GitHub identity
• intenttext install — CLI to install templates directly into your project
• Template composition — combine multiple templates
• Star and fork — community curation
• Org templates — private template registries for teams