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I'm not entirely clear on what this tool does. Could you tell me some more about it?

It's a code scaffolding tool like Yeoman or Plop but without the overhead of writing a large template script to accompany it.

Off topic, but is the name perchance inspired by a unit of energy from a certain fantasy fiction trilogy?

Yeah, of course. "Smallest unit of magic" = "Small snippets of code-generation".