Option to download templates to a local cache

[tristanpoland]

Source note: "Provide an option to DL templates to a cache"

Proposal

Add an option to download project templates into a local cache so they're available offline and load faster on subsequent use.

Open questions

• Cache location (per-user vs per-project)?
• How/when the cache updates or invalidates?

Related

• Add a template / sample game project #370 (template game)

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Filed from handwritten planning notes (2026-07-23). Description expanded for clarity — technical suggestions are marked as such and are not confirmed against the codebase.

[tristanpoland]

@PhantomDotDev Anything on this yet? should it be moved from in progress?

[tristanpoland]

@PhantomDotDev I'm going to go ahead and remove you from assignees for now just so that people know that this is still looking for somebody to work on it If you decide that you still want to work on it let me know here and I can reassign you!