chore: add prepare script

template/prepare.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Function to check if a command exists
+command_exists () {
+  command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+missing_deps=0
+
+# Check for Cargo
+if ! (command_exists cargo); then
+  missing_deps=1
+  echo "❌ Cargo/rust is not installed."
+  echo ""
+  echo "To install Rust, visit the official download page:"
+  echo "👉 https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install"
+  echo ""
+  echo "Or install it using a package manager:"
+  echo ""
+  echo "🔹 macOS (Homebrew):"
+  echo "    brew install cargo"
+  echo ""
+  echo "🔹 Ubuntu/Debian:"
+  echo "    sudo apt-get install -y cargo"
+  echo ""
+  echo "🔹 Arch Linux:"
+  echo "    sudo pacman -S rust"
+  echo ""
+fi
+
+# Exit with a bad exit code if any dependencies are missing
+if [ "$missing_deps" -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "Install the missing dependencies and ensure they are on your path. Then run this command again."
+  # TODO: remove sleep when cli bug is fixed
+  sleep 2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+
+

template/xtp.toml.ejs

@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ build = "cargo build --release --target wasm32-wasi"
 format = "cargo fmt"
 
 # xtp plugin init runs this script before running the format script
-# prepare = ""
+prepare = "bash prepare.sh"