This is related to how the publishing system work in AYON’s Pipeline.
where publish process exports the files to an intermediate location called Staging Directory and then move it to the publish location Publish Directory as explained here.
In the project anatomy there should be settings for staging and publish where you can specify templates for each of them.
It’s also worth mentioning that some integration addons don’t support staging directory templates and in this case the staging directory can be a hard coded value.
Additionally, in node-based apps, if the staging templates are supported, they are applied to the node on creation. however, I’m not sure if we provide validators to check whether or not users modified the path value.
Yes. however, any data in staging directory can be deleted once publish is finished.