In README.md, the Generating a New Theme instruction places the new theme in the wrong directory: themes rather than themes/custom
Navigate to the contrib prototype theme folder and run the suggested
php generator.php -n custom_theme -d 'Custom Theme' -p themes -a short
Replace thee suggestion with
php generator.php -n custom_theme -d 'Custom Theme' -p themes/custom -a short
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