diff --git a/Sources/TuistKit/Services/ScaffoldService.swift b/Sources/TuistKit/Services/ScaffoldService.swift
index dba3008d19d..3e43367ba07 100644
--- a/Sources/TuistKit/Services/ScaffoldService.swift
+++ b/Sources/TuistKit/Services/ScaffoldService.swift
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ final class ScaffoldService {
         var attributes: [Template.Attribute] = []
 
         if let templateUrl = url, templateUrl.isGitURL {
-            try await templateGitLoader.loadTemplate(from: templateUrl, templateName: templateName, plugins: plugins) { template in
+            try await templateGitLoader.loadTemplate(from: templateUrl, templateName: templateName) { template in
                 attributes = template.attributes
             }
         } else {
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ final class ScaffoldService {
             let template = try await templateLoader.loadTemplate(at: templateDirectory, plugins: plugins)
             attributes = template.attributes
         }
-        return template.attributes.reduce(into: (required: [], optional: [])) { currentValue, attribute in
+        return attributes.reduce(into: (required: [], optional: [])) { currentValue, attribute in
             switch attribute {
             case let .optional(name, default: _):
                 currentValue.optional.append(name)
@@ -102,13 +102,13 @@ final class ScaffoldService {
 
         if let templateUrl = templateUrl, templateUrl.isGitURL {
             try await templateGitLoader.loadTemplate(from: templateUrl, templateName: templateName, closure: { template in
-                let parsedAttributes = try parseAttributes(
+                let parsedAttributes = try self.parseAttributes(
                     requiredTemplateOptions: requiredTemplateOptions,
                     optionalTemplateOptions: optionalTemplateOptions,
                     template: template
                 )
 
-                try await templateGenerator.generate(
+                try await self.templateGenerator.generate(
                     template: template,
                     to: path,
                     attributes: parsedAttributes
diff --git a/Sources/TuistLoader/Loaders/ManifestLoader.swift b/Sources/TuistLoader/Loaders/ManifestLoader.swift
index 6db6f8a456d..4214d1e8569 100644
--- a/Sources/TuistLoader/Loaders/ManifestLoader.swift
+++ b/Sources/TuistLoader/Loaders/ManifestLoader.swift
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@ public class ManifestLoader: ManifestLoading {
         return !manifests.isDisjoint(with: rootManifests)
     }
 
-    public func loadProject(at path: AbsolutePath) throws -> ProjectDescription.Project {
-        try loadManifest(.project, at: path)
+    public func loadConfig(at path: AbsolutePath) async throws -> ProjectDescription.Config {
+        try await loadManifest(.config, at: path)
     }
 
-    public func loadProject(at path: AbsolutePath) async throws -> ProjectDescription.Project {
-        try await loadManifest(.project, at: path)
+    public func loadProject(at path: AbsolutePath, rootPath: AbsolutePath? = nil) async throws -> ProjectDescription.Project {
+        try await loadManifest(.project, at: path, rootPath: rootPath)
     }
 
     public func loadWorkspace(at path: AbsolutePath) async throws -> ProjectDescription.Workspace {
@@ -219,14 +219,18 @@ public class ManifestLoader: ManifestLoading {
     // swiftlint:disable:next function_body_length
     private func loadManifest<T: Decodable>(
         _ manifest: Manifest,
-        at path: AbsolutePath
-    ) throws -> T {
+        at path: AbsolutePath,
+        rootPath: AbsolutePath? = nil
+    ) async throws -> T {
         let manifestPath = try manifestPath(
             manifest,
             at: path
         )
 
-        let data = try loadDataForManifest(manifest, at: manifestPath)
+        // build root manifest file path
+        let rootManifestPath = try rootManifestPath(manifest, at: rootPath)
+
+        let data = try await loadDataForManifest(manifest, at: manifestPath, rootPath: rootManifestPath)
 
         do {
             return try decoder.decode(T.self, from: data)
@@ -314,9 +318,10 @@ public class ManifestLoader: ManifestLoading {
 
     private func loadDataForManifest(
         _ manifest: Manifest,
-        at path: AbsolutePath
-    ) throws -> Data {
-        let arguments = try buildArguments(
+        at path: AbsolutePath,
+        rootPath: AbsolutePath? = nil
+    ) async throws -> Data {
+        let arguments = try await buildArguments(
             manifest,
             at: path
         ) + ["--tuist-dump"]
diff --git a/Sources/TuistLoaderTesting/Loaders/Mocks/MockTemplateGitLoader.swift b/Sources/TuistLoaderTesting/Loaders/Mocks/MockTemplateGitLoader.swift
index da4ef5f2119..ee8507059cd 100644
--- a/Sources/TuistLoaderTesting/Loaders/Mocks/MockTemplateGitLoader.swift
+++ b/Sources/TuistLoaderTesting/Loaders/Mocks/MockTemplateGitLoader.swift
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import TuistLoader
 
 public final class MockTemplateGitLoader: TemplateGitLoading {
     public var loadTemplateStub: ((String) throws -> Template)?
-    public func loadTemplate(from templateURL: String, closure: @escaping (Template) async throws -> Void) async throws {
+    public func loadTemplate(from templateURL: String, templateName: String, closure: @escaping (Template) async throws -> Void) async throws {
         let template = try loadTemplateStub?(templateURL) ?? Template(description: "", attributes: [], items: [])
         try await closure(template)
     }
diff --git a/Tests/TuistKitTests/Services/ScaffoldServiceTests.swift b/Tests/TuistKitTests/Services/ScaffoldServiceTests.swift
index f0ac7dfc5e5..440c28d60e9 100644
--- a/Tests/TuistKitTests/Services/ScaffoldServiceTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/TuistKitTests/Services/ScaffoldServiceTests.swift
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ final class ScaffoldServiceTests: TuistUnitTestCase {
         // When
         let options = try await subject.loadTemplateOptions(
             templateName: "template",
-            path: nil
+            path: nil,
+            url: nil
         )
 
         // Then
@@ -107,7 +108,8 @@ final class ScaffoldServiceTests: TuistUnitTestCase {
         // When
         let options = try await subject.loadTemplateOptions(
             templateName: "PluginTemplate",
-            path: nil
+            path: nil,
+            url: nil
         )
 
         // Then
@@ -269,6 +271,7 @@ extension ScaffoldService {
     ) async throws {
         try await run(
             path: path,
+            templateUrl: nil,
             templateName: templateName,
             requiredTemplateOptions: requiredTemplateOptions,
             optionalTemplateOptions: optionalTemplateOptions
diff --git a/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/CachedManifestLoaderTests.swift b/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/CachedManifestLoaderTests.swift
index 2b4a54e9aaf..2402c53ae40 100644
--- a/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/CachedManifestLoaderTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/CachedManifestLoaderTests.swift
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ final class CachedManifestLoaderTests: TuistUnitTestCase {
             }
 
         given(manifestLoader)
-            .loadProject(at: .any)
-            .willProduce { [unowned self] path in
+            .loadProject(at: .any, rootPath: .any)
+            .willProduce { [unowned self] path, rootPath in
                 guard let manifest = projectManifests[path] else {
                     throw ManifestLoaderError.manifestNotFound(.project, path)
                 }
diff --git a/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/ManifestModelConverterTests.swift b/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/ManifestModelConverterTests.swift
index 8ef1e45f92a..77e9838d652 100644
--- a/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/ManifestModelConverterTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/ManifestModelConverterTests.swift
@@ -323,8 +323,8 @@ class ManifestModelConverterTests: TuistUnitTestCase {
     ) -> ManifestLoading {
         let manifestLoader = MockManifestLoading()
         given(manifestLoader)
-            .loadProject(at: .any)
-            .willProduce { path in
+            .loadProject(at: .any, rootPath: .any)
+            .willProduce { path, rootPath in
                 guard let manifest = projects[path] else {
                     throw ManifestLoaderError.manifestNotFound(path)
                 }
diff --git a/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/RecursiveManifestLoaderTests.swift b/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/RecursiveManifestLoaderTests.swift
index fd7549d9db3..8b760656663 100644
--- a/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/RecursiveManifestLoaderTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/TuistLoaderTests/Loaders/RecursiveManifestLoaderTests.swift
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ final class RecursiveManifestLoaderTests: TuistUnitTestCase {
     private func createManifestLoader() -> MockManifestLoading {
         let manifestLoader = MockManifestLoading()
         given(manifestLoader)
-            .loadProject(at: .any)
-            .willProduce { [unowned self] path in
+            .loadProject(at: .any, rootPath: .any)
+            .willProduce { [unowned self] path, rootPath in
                 guard let manifest = projectManifests[path] else {
                     throw ManifestLoaderError.manifestNotFound(.project, path)
                 }