Help with Referencing a Variable in Template

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Hello All,

I am trying to make a script that will check that an item isn’t already in a to do list before adding it. I am having trouble referencing the Fields in three template checking if the item is already in the list. this is what I have so far:

sequence:
  - action: todo.get_items
    metadata: {}
    data:
      status: needs_action
    response_variable: todo
    target:
      entity_id: "{{ to_do_list }}"
    enabled: true
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ todo['{{ to_do_list }}']['items']|selectattr('summary','search','{{
          list_item }}')|list|count > 0 }}
    then: []
    enabled: true
    else:
      - data:
          item: "{{ list_item }}"
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ to_do_list }}"
        action: todo.add_item
fields:
  to_do_list:
    selector:
      entity:
        multiple: false
        filter:
          - domain: todo
    required: true
    description: To Do List
  list_item:
    selector:
      text: null
    description: To Do List Item
    required: true
alias: "To Do: Check then Add"
description: ""

I am getting the error:

Error: In 'not': In 'template' condition: UndefinedError: 'dict object' has no attribute '{{to_do_list}}'

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

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  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ todo[to_do_list]['items']
            | selectattr('summary', 'search', list_item)
            | list | count == 0 }}
    then:
      - action: todo.add_item
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ to_do_list }}"
      - data:
          item: "{{ list_item }}"
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That works great, thank you!

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