emdash-cms--emdash/templates/blank/AGENTS-template.md

This Template

The most minimal template. A single index.astro page with EmDash wired up and nothing else: no collections, no seed, no styles, no components, no layouts beyond what Astro provides by default.

Start here if you want full control from the beginning -- no schema or design decisions made for you.

Pages

Page	Path	What it shows
Home	/	A single Astro page with EmDash wiring

Schema

None. There are no collections, taxonomies, or menus seeded. You define everything via the admin UI (Schema -> Add collection) or by editing seed/seed.json once you create one.

What to do here

This template is a substrate, not a starting design. The natural first steps are:

1. Decide what content types the site needs (posts? events? products?) and define them in the admin under Schema, or by adding a seed/seed.json.
2. Add the pages that render that content (e.g. src/pages/posts/index.astro).
3. Add a layout in src/layouts/ for shared chrome.
4. Add styles -- this template has no theme.css and no fonts configured.

If any of that sounds like work you don't want to do, start from starter, blog, portfolio, or marketing instead. They make these decisions for you.

What not to do

• Don't expect this template to render a designed site out of the box. It won't.
• Don't add features here that should live in the EmDash core or in a plugin. This template is meant to stay small.