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+- Steven, Nico
+
+- all cdist cores change to the local or remote base dir before excution
+  of non-core (i.e. manifests, gencode, ...) executables
+
+- non-core executables get helper information via environment variables:
+
+   general explorers: __explorers
+   initial manifest: __manifests
+   type manifests:  __object, __object_id
+   type explorers:  __object, __object_id, __type_explorers
+   type codegen:  __object, __object_id
+   type code:  -
+