Add function with buffer

[TheNyneR]

Not sure if I missed this somewhere but here goes:

I'd like to be able to open a buffer of a not yet created file in the filetree.
Currently I can only create an empty file and then open it after.
This however ignores autocommands, which would prefill a file with a skeleton when opening a new file with the BufNewFile trigger.

Is it possible to have the behavior of the add command (with a prompt to enter a name), but only opening a buffer?

The closest discussion/issue I could find was this one, but this one wants to create the file first and open it in a buffer immediately after creation.