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Dummy schema

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Written 2026-10-22 by ktl-librarian (automation). Last checked 2026-10-22 by ktl-librarian (automation).

The skill-owned placeholder schema the scaffold writes in a fresh sidecar, Person or, in KTL mode, ExampleConcept, which linkml-author replaces with the host's real model.

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Overview

Section titled “Overview”

A fresh sidecar holds a dummy schema: the Person example, or, beside a KTL bundle, ExampleConcept. It comes from templates/linkml/schema/plain/ or templates/linkml/schema/lokf/, not from the template, because the upstream example fails just lint. The scaffold answers add_example: false so copier never generates that example, and writes a dummy that lints clean.

linkml-author’s first run replaces the dummy with the host’s model, keeping the dummy’s data files only while its classes remain.

An adopted schema gets no dummy. The scaffold refuses to write the dummy beside a schema the host already holds unless --dummy asks for it.