User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Template Types: A Smarter Categorization System/@comment-24473195-20151121101200/@comment--20151121153738

Hello, there is no API for this at this time. I would also disagree that it should be horrifying to do this for dozens of templates. Each template should take a few seconds to add a type. So you're looking at a few minutes at max to add types to a few dozen templates.

Your other two points - about Starter and inherited tags - are good points and we will consider this feedback as part of our review process.