Not sure which account to tag, but @Clint Valentine @Clint Valentine has written this plugin for collating topic versions: https://github.com/fulcrumgenomics/nf-versions Could be useful for the nf-core template perhaps?

I'm not entirely sure on this one TBH, it seems like an extra layer we would need to update for every new tool we add. I think the current topics approach handles this pretty well already. But still a nice project 👀

we thought of something similar with @Edmund

Yeah, I do think that topics removes quite a bit of the need here

The plugin does take advantage of topics already. It just hardcodes the shell commands that are repeated everywhere in a single place that you can more easily import from. It also builds up the MultiQC YAML dynamically and doesn't do it through a bunch of

.yml

files everywhere. It be nice if there were native Nextflow features for introspecting environment metadata and passing that along, but that'd be a much bigger endeavour.