diff --git a/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/StatementsLoader.java b/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/StatementsLoader.java
index e2f3d984b..6ba75635a 100644
--- a/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/StatementsLoader.java
+++ b/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/StatementsLoader.java
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ public class StatementsLoader {
         StmtsDocList layered = new StmtsDocList(rawDocList);
         transformer.checkpointAccesses().forEach((k,v) -> {
             layered.addTemplateVariable(k,v);
-            params.remove(k);
+            if (params.containsKey(k)) {
+                 params.remove(k);
+            }
         });
         return layered;
     }
@@ -59,7 +61,9 @@ public class StatementsLoader {
         StmtsDocList layered = new StmtsDocList(rawStmtsDocList);
         transformer.checkpointAccesses().forEach((k,v) -> {
             layered.addTemplateVariable(k,v);
-            params.remove(k);
+            if (params.containsKey(k)) {
+                 params.remove(k);
+            }
         });
         return layered;
     }
diff --git a/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/uniform/decorators/SyntheticOpTemplateProvider.java b/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/uniform/decorators/SyntheticOpTemplateProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a795db098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/adapters-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/uniform/decorators/SyntheticOpTemplateProvider.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityimpl.uniform.decorators;
+
+import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityconfig.yaml.OpTemplate;
+import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityconfig.yaml.StmtsDocList;
+import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.templating.DriverAdapterDecorators;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * In the case that no statements are provided for an activity, but a workload
+ * description is provided, and the result for no found statements is not
+ * simply a matter of tag filtering, an activity may provide its own
+ * synthetic ops. This is here primarily to support the classic behavior of stdout
+ * until it's functionality is subsumed by standard diagnostic features.
+ *
+ * Note that this is only valid while an activity uses a single driver, which will
+ * change with upcoming API updates.
+ */
+public interface SyntheticOpTemplateProvider extends DriverAdapterDecorators {
+
+    /**
+     * If a driver adapter supports creating example op templates from bindings,
+     * it must implement this method to do so.
+     * @param stmtsDocList The existing doc structure, which should contain no fully defined op templates, but may contain other elements like bindings
+     * @return A list of op templates, size zero or more
+     */
+    List<OpTemplate> getSyntheticOpTemplates(StmtsDocList stmtsDocList, Map<String,Object> params);
+}