not at all, except maybe by using a prototype. even with rescripting the abstraction to thispatcher of the parent you wont get the manually created instance away.

Yeah, I've been wanting this feature myself badly

clippings are a way maybe, btw, i'd love clippings to be a bit more supported in general. eg. sseing custom icons of clippings in the object palette, in a clippings rider.. what a dream. nord modular workflow whohoo!

i use copy and paste in this situation.

Yes, so do I. I'd like to not have to do that, hence the request.

I just wanted to put a reference here to another discussion that I had started recently where in fact a way was found, using a little javascript, to be able to have the border color (better than nothing) set automatically when an abstractions is loaded. (https://cycling74.com/forums/programmatic-control-of-abstraction-color)