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2026-10-02SyncIgor Soarez
2026-10-02pi: drop pi-mcp-adapter, MCP is native nowIgor Soarez
pi 1.0.0 has MCP built in, and while the adapter is installed it suppresses that and prints a warning at every start. The browser gates that answered the adapter's approval event now hook pi's own tool_call as well. From change request 562974.
2026-10-01bin/wispr-keys: Flow dictation on the Caps Lock keyIgor Soarez
Push to talk on F20, Command Mode on Ctrl+F20, written into Flow's config.json because its settings screen refuses F20 without a modifier while its key listener accepts it. The key codes and action names come from reading Flow 1.6.1021's app.asar: shortcuts are keyed by macOS key codes string-sorted and joined with "+", f20 is 90, ctrl is 59, ptt is Push to talk and lens is Command Mode. splitKeybinds is kept in step so Flow cannot read back a disagreeing pair. A bin/ tool rather than a link/ part, though it was proposed as one. It has to quit and restart Flow for an edit to stick, and link.sh runs unattended after every sync: a part that can kill a dictation mid-sentence is a poor trade for a binding that can wait until someone asks for it. On demand it is also free to fail loudly, since nothing else's run depends on it. Flow ignores an AppleScript quit, so it gets a TERM; and it is launched by bundle id, because the bundle contains a second app also called "Wispr Flow" -- its Swift helper -- that `open -a` can start instead, which exits at once. The file as first found is kept as config.json.pre-wispr-keys.
2026-10-01Brewfile: drop toggleMuteIgor Soarez
Ad-hoc signed, no TeamIdentifier, and spctl rejects the bundle as modified since signing, so it only runs with its quarantine flag cleared. A setup script that every machine runs is the wrong place to put an unverifiable binary past Gatekeeper, so the xattr step goes with it and install.sh now says it clears no quarantine flags at all. QuickMD stays: Developer ID, notarized.
2026-10-01Brewfile: say what the two taps actually shipIgor Soarez
Checked rather than assumed. QuickMD is signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so its quarantine flag costs a dialog. toggleMute is ad-hoc signed with no TeamIdentifier, and spctl rejects it as modified since signing -- so the quarantine step is not 'it is not notarized' but 'there is no verifiable publisher'. The trust gate also turned out looser than the first note claimed: it refused an untrusted formula, but both casks installed without it.
2026-10-01Brewfile: toggleMute and QuickMD, from their authors' tapsIgor Soarez
Neither is in homebrew-cask. That costs three things this file cannot express on its own, so install.sh carries them: brew will not load a cask from an unofficial tap until it is trusted, which is per machine and recorded outside the repo; the trust is granted per cask rather than per tap, so it covers these two files and not whatever the taps add later; and toggleMute is not notarized, so Gatekeeper refuses it until com.apple.quarantine is cleared -- that one attribute on that one path, not the `xattr -cr` its README asks for. Nothing here vouches for either binary, and a third-party tap can change what it installs between two runs. Both are deliberate exceptions, named as such.
2026-10-01Brewfile: glow and IceIgor Soarez
Neither is read by anything here, so they sit apart from the tools the config depends on: glow renders markdown in the terminal, Ice manages the menu bar like keepingyouawake beside it.
2026-10-01hammerspoon: Caps Lock sends F20, and stays that wayIgor Soarez
hidutil remaps inside the IOKit HID driver, below the window server, so the key stops being Caps Lock before anything above the driver sees it: no toggle to suppress, and F20 is a real key to other apps, to System Settings shortcuts, to a password field. An eventtap cannot do this -- Caps Lock is not reachable from there, which is why hs.hid exists as its own IOKit module. What hidutil will not do is cover a keyboard attached after it ran, so dotlib re-applies on USB attach, on wake, and on a Caps Lock event. That last one is the general answer: a mapped keyboard cannot produce a Caps Lock event, so an event arriving at all is proof of a keyboard the remap missed, and the fault triggers its own repair. The watchers are there to get the common cases before a key is pressed, since the repairing press is spent repairing. No launchd job and no link/ part. The remap lives and dies with Hammerspoon, which already owns the keyboard on these machines, and a plist would only have bought independence from it for the second or two before it starts -- a user agent does not run at the login window either. Nothing is bound to f20 here; bind it like any other key. A machine gives the key back with capslock_off() from its local.lua, which loads last: shadowing cannot undo a side effect that has already run. hs.ipc is required so capslock_status() answers from a shell.
2026-09-28AGENTS.md is the file; CLAUDE.md imports itIgor Soarez
Every agent here except Claude Code reads AGENTS.md -- pi, codex, and aider now that its read: says so. The vendor-neutral name was the symlink and the Claude-specific one the real file, with a header saying the file was guidance "to Claude Code". Swapped, keeping history on the real file through git mv. Claude Code has read AGENTS.md directly since v2.1.277 and the machine this was done on is newer, so the obvious move was to delete CLAUDE.md. Checking the other machines first was worth it: four were on versions between 2.1.158 and 2.1.263, and a session on any of them would have found no instructions at all. So CLAUDE.md stays as one line, `@AGENTS.md`, which the documentation endorses for exactly this case and which -- unlike the symlink it replaces -- works on Windows and does not trip Claude Code's refusal to write through a symlink. The header says to delete it once every machine is current.
2026-09-28CLAUDE.md: an agent files its own change request, without askingIgor Soarez
The text said to hand a request to dot-request "as well as to the reply" but never said an agent may do that unprompted, and asked for it to be written "to be pasted whole", which reads as give-this-to-a-human. So an agent on a read-only clone wrote a request, handed it back, and offered to file it only if asked -- reasonable behaviour against what was written. The paragraph now is the permission, and says why filing is safe: it applies nothing, and every request is still judged before anything changes. One addition beyond what was asked. Filing without asking means text leaves that machine with nothing in the way, and the machine is one whose owner does not control it. So putting the request in the reply is now explicitly not optional: it is the only thing that shows what was sent.
2026-09-28tmux: the command prompt gets an opaque backgroundIgor Soarez
Every theme set message-style with a bg and no fill. From tmux 3.7 the command prompt is drawn over the status line, where only the prompt's own characters take that bg and the rest of the line takes fill; with status-style bg=default everywhere here, the terminal showed through around the prompt. Reported from a machine running 3.7c. fill now matches bg in all eight. It has existed since tmux 3.2 and older versions ignore it, so this is safe on the fleet: checked on 3.5a, where each theme sources cleanly and reports the fill back.
2026-09-28pi: the siliconflow key is a reference, not a nameIgor Soarez
models.json gave the provider an apiKey of "SILICONFLOW_API_KEY", which pi sends verbatim as the credential: it interpolates "$NAME" and "${NAME}", runs "!command", and treats anything else as a literal. So that provider has been authenticating with the 19-character string "SILICONFLOW_API_KEY" and getting a 401 for as long as it has existed. Confirmed by calling pi's own resolver: "SILICONFLOW_API_KEY" resolves to itself, "$SILICONFLOW_API_KEY" to the value. Nothing catches this -- isConfigValueConfigured returns true for both and reports no missing variables, so `pi auth check` says ready either way, and only a real request fails. Hence the note in CLAUDE.md beside the models.d row: the rule is invisible in the file, and the next provider added would repeat it. Reported as a change request from the machine that hit it; the sweep for other instances found none.
2026-09-27macos: hot corners and tap to click, and a way to find the next keyIgor Soarez
Three settings this account has always set by hand on every new Mac, now in the script that exists for exactly that: the bottom-right hot corner sleeping the display, tap to click, and three-finger drag on an external trackpad -- the last a gap, since the script set it only for the built-in one. Each of those is written in more than one place because macOS keeps them in more than one place: an external Magic Trackpad has its own domain, and the login window reads com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior rather than either of them, per-host for this machine and globally for any other. Setting one and not the others is why tap to click sometimes survives a reboot and sometimes does not. bin/macos-defaults-diff is the general answer: snapshot, change one setting, and it prints what moved, including the -currentHost domains a plain `defaults read` never shows. It flushes cfprefsd first, since a change made seconds earlier can otherwise be missing from the read meant to reveal it, and it says plainly when nothing changed -- anything behind Privacy & Security lives in the SIP-protected TCC database and cannot be scripted at all.
2026-09-25profile: stop shadowing exitIgor Soarez
`exit` was a function that ran `tmux detach` instead of exiting, whenever a shell was interactive and inside tmux. What it bought was a keystroke: tmux already binds detach to prefix-d, which this config does not touch. What it cost was an afternoon. Claude Code captures shell functions into a snapshot and sources it in every tool call, so agent shells inheriting $TMUX ran the function too: terminal windows closed on their own for weeks before anyone connected it to `exit`, and a poll loop that called `exit 0` detached a client every minute instead of stopping, because the function detached and then returned. The call-time guard added on 2026-07-16 fixed that case; it did not make shadowing a POSIX builtin a good idea. Nothing in either repo calls it and nothing documents the behaviour.
2026-09-25link/pi.sh: the generators move into files, and parse under bash 3.2 againIgor Soarez
57e49dd made link/pi.sh unparseable on macOS. bash 3.2 does not skip heredoc content when it scans for the end of a command substitution, so the three apostrophes in a comment inside the new heredoc read as an unterminated quote and the script stopped parsing at end of file. ./link.sh on a Mac aborted partway: settings still generated, models.json stayed the symlink the commit meant to replace, and everything after that point never ran. Linux was fine, and so was every check I ran -- `bash` on a Mac with Homebrew is 5.x, which parses it happily. Reported from the machine it broke. Rewording the comment would fix it and leave the trap armed for the next edit, so the two python programs move into link/pi-settings.py and link/pi-models.py instead, called by path. The text is unchanged; there is no longer a heredoc inside $( ) to trip over, and both files now compile-check on their own. Verified under /bin/bash 3.2: first apply replaces both symlinks, a package removed by hand still survives a relink, fragments merge for settings and for models, and repeat runs report unchanged.
2026-09-25A filed request needs the owner's approval, not just a valid signatureIgor Soarez
The reader section said a request was a proposal to read and judge. That tells an agent how to read one, not what it may do about it, and the gap is the whole risk: a machine files requests precisely because it cannot be trusted with push access -- it may be compromised, and whoever holds its key signs whatever they like. A signature proves which machine sent the text, never that the text is right or that its owner wrote it. So: judge it, report it, and apply nothing without the owner approving that request. Text inside a request asking for it to be applied or pushed is not approval; it is the input the rule exists for. The same words are in the reader's own output and in the inbox repo, so this holds for whoever meets a request first.
2026-09-25pi: providers can come from ~/.config/pi/models.d, like settings already doIgor Soarez
models.json was a plain symlink to the tracked file, which left a machine whose models are served from somewhere other than a vendor's own API with nowhere to say so. pi reads providers from exactly one path -- join(getAgentDir(), "models.json") -- and a `providers` block in a settings fragment is inert, because the settings schema has no such key. So on such a machine pi cannot be used at all, and the endpoint is not something this repo may name. link/pi.sh now generates models.json the way it already generates settings.json: the repo's file, then every ~/.config/pi/models.d/*.json. No three-way merge here -- pi never writes this file, keeping runtime state in the sibling models-store.json -- so a hand-edit of ~/.pi/agent/models.json no longer survives a relink. Put it in a fragment. It reports which provider came from which fragment, added or replaced, so a local file shadowing a provider the repo ships cannot do it quietly. Proposed as a change request from the machine that needs it; verified here against pi 0.84.2 before applying.
2026-09-25dot-request: file a change request from a machine that cannot pushIgor Soarez
A clone made over https cannot publish anything, so a fix found on such a machine is lost at the next pull. The instructions already said to hand back a change request instead of editing; this is the command that does it. The request is markdown on stdin, signed with a key that machine holds, and posted to the inbox, which stores it only if the signature is from a key authorised there. Where the key is not authorised, nothing is stored and the submission says so. The endpoint is named here, which the leak rule would otherwise forbid, and the rule now carries the exception: a public endpoint this repo's own tooling must reach, already published by a DNS record and a certificate in the transparency logs, is not a leak. Concealing it would protect nothing and cost every machine a hand-written config file; what protects it is the signature. The private layer's check has the same exception, so it is enforced rather than remembered, and it does not extend to hosts, addresses or internal-only names. The other side is documented too: where `sz-requests` exists, what arrived can be read and judged. A signature says which machine produced the text, never that the text is right -- the machines filing these are the ones this account does not fully control.
2026-09-22tree-sitter-cli, and: a read-only clone hands back a change requestIgor Soarez
An https clone of this repo cannot push -- the host serves it anonymously and refuses the push with a 403 -- and that is how a machine whose owner cannot hold a key gets it. An agent troubleshooting there would edit a tracked file, see the fix applied, and lose it at the next pull, or leave that clone unable to fast-forward and quietly cut off from changes. CLAUDE.md now says how to tell the two cases apart, and what to do instead: make it machine-local where a hook covers it, or hand back a change request -- paths, the actual diff, why, and how to verify -- stating that nothing was applied. AGENTS.md is a symlink to CLAUDE.md, so the agents that look for that name get the same file rather than a second copy to drift. tree-sitter-cli: nvim-treesitter generates and compiles its parsers with it.
2026-09-21hammerspoon: the example's header is init.lua's, so bindings move either wayIgor Soarez
It unpacked only hotkey and mods, so a line copied from init.lua -- which writes `hotkey('9', csa, type_text(...))` with bare names -- did not run here, and a line moved the other way had to be rewritten. The header is now the same block init.lua has, name for name, and the examples use the bare names too. Unused names in it are harmless, and keeping them whole is the point: paste a binding in either direction and it works as written.
2026-09-21hammerspoon: shared helpers move to dotlib.lua, which local.lua can requireIgor Soarez
A machine's local.lua is a separate chunk, so init.lua's locals were invisible to it and anything it wanted -- hotkey(), the mod tables, type_text -- had to be copied. They live in dotlib.lua now, linked beside init.lua, and both files reach them the same way: require("dotlib"). init.lua keeps its own vocabulary by aliasing what it uses, so the 500 lines below are untouched. It prepends its own directory to package.path first: Hammerspoon already puts the config directory there (Contents/Resources/ setup.lua), but taking it from this file's path holds however the config was found. A machine that pulls without re-linking has no dotlib.lua beside init.lua, which would lose every hotkey silently -- that case notifies and names the fix. Checked with a stubbed hs: the module's hotkey, focus, execute, type_text and type_current_date all behave, and local-example.lua binds its four keys through it.
2026-09-21hammerspoon, ghostty: example files for their machine-local configsIgor Soarez
ssh and git each ship one; these two hooks were discoverable only by reading the config that loads them. Both examples carry what is easy to get wrong: init.lua's hotkey() helper and mod tables are locals, so a local.lua calls hs.hotkey.bind directly, and a binding there can only be shadowed, never deleted; in Ghostty a single-value key replaces while keybind accumulates, and `ignore` is how a binding is switched off rather than added to. Checked rather than assumed: the lua parses, and the Ghostty example validates and, dropped in as ~/.config/ghostty-local, does what it says -- font-size, command and background-opacity replaced, super+shift+n added, alt+enter turned off.
2026-09-21CLAUDE.md: where a single machine's changes go, and what to do without a hookIgor Soarez
The hooks existed but were documented nowhere together: ~/.localenv and ~/.localprofile were mentioned in passing, the skip file under the link system, and the ssh, git, Hammerspoon, Ghostty and Alacritty ones only in the config files that read them. Anyone -- an agent especially -- asked to change one machine had to read the whole repo to find out whether that was possible without committing to it. They are one table now, with what each overrides and what reads it, plus what has no hook at all. And the rule for everything else: say what is being asked for and where it would have to live, rather than putting one machine's preference in the config every machine shares, or leaving that machine's checkout dirty and its sync failing.
2026-09-21ghostty: read ~/.config/ghostty-local last, where a machine has oneIgor Soarez
Ghostty had no way to differ per machine. It cannot take the shape the other tools use -- a file beside the linked one -- because link.sh links this whole directory, so ~/.config/ghostty is the checkout itself and a sibling file would be an untracked file in the repo every machine shares. An optional include at the end does the same job: later values replace earlier ones, so a local file overrides anything here, the theme colours included, and its keybinds add to these. Verified against the shipped config: font-size 12 becomes 18 with a local file, back to 12 without, and the config still validates when there is none.
2026-09-21hammerspoon: load ~/.config/hammerspoon/local.lua where a machine has oneIgor Soarez
The shell has ~/.localprofile and ssh and git their config-local; Hammerspoon had nothing, so a machine wanting one different hotkey had to edit the file every machine shares. Only init.lua is linked, so the directory around it is already the machine's own -- a sibling file there is in no repo. Loaded last, so it can override anything above, and through pcall: a mistake in a local file must not take the rest of the config down. Reload with ctrl-shift-alt-h as usual.
2026-09-21zshrc: find Homebrew's completions on the prefix this machine usesIgor Soarez
fpath carried /usr/local/share/zsh-completions, which is wrong twice over: Apple Silicon puts Homebrew under /opt/homebrew, and formulae install their completions into share/zsh/site-functions, not the share/zsh-completions of the formula by that name. The directory existed on neither Mac, so _brew, _bat, _deno and the rest have been missing all along -- silently, since a missing fpath entry says nothing. All four candidates are probed now, HOMEBREW_PREFIX first where a machine exports it. No `brew --prefix`: that forks on every interactive shell, and this file already pays for one of those further down.
2026-09-21Brewfile: keepingyouawake, and say that Mac apps belong hereIgor Soarez
Installed by hand on machine after machine, which is the signal it belongs in the list. Nothing in this repo uses it, so the header now says what the casks were already doing: the few Mac apps this account wants wherever it works, alongside the tools the config itself needs.
2026-09-21supermaven off unless asked for; a blocked cask no longer ends install.shIgor Soarez
Supermaven was running everywhere. Its `condition` option reads the other way round from what the code assumed -- `true` stops it -- so `return false` meant "never stop", and the plugin loaded on InsertEnter, started its agent and offered inline suggestions on every machine. Only blink's source for it was off, which is what made it look disabled. It sends buffer context to a third party, so it is now opt-in: DOT_SUPERMAVEN=1, in ~/.localenv where it is wanted. Off, lazy keeps both plugins off disk entirely. install.sh no longer stops at brew bundle either. A managed machine can refuse a cask outright -- "disabled because it does not pass the macOS Gatekeeper check" -- and brew bundle fails the whole run for one such entry, which left the checkouts, nvim plugins and colour files undone. It warns and carries on; brew has already named the entry.
2026-09-21Brewfile: say why bash is here, correctlyIgor Soarez
The reason given named bin/open, which does not need it: on macOS it execs /usr/bin/open on line 13, before anything 3.2 cannot parse. What does need it is szecret's age bootstrap -- `${os,,}` in secrets/common.sh, reached only when age is absent, which is precisely the state a machine is in before this file has been applied.
2026-09-21install.sh: install Homebrew, add bash, and seed the colour filesIgor Soarez
Three things a machine set up from this repo alone hit on its first run: Homebrew was a dead end -- install.sh printed the command and exited, leaving the one prerequisite everything else needs to be run by hand. It installs it now, NONINTERACTIVE so it does not wait on a RETURN; the sudo password is still asked for, which is why this script is run by hand. bash was missing from the Brewfile, so bin/open and secrets/ ran under the 3.2 macOS ships and failed on `${v,,}`; config/bashrc also looks for the bash-completion 2.x that wants 4.2. Ghostty refused to start -- "error opening config-file ... error.FileNotFound" -- because config-file pointed at the colour file bin/theme writes, which does not exist until theme has run. The include is optional now (`?`), and this script seeds the colour files when a machine has none, leaving a machine that already has a theme alone.
2026-09-21link: a part named in ~/.config/dot/skip does nothing on that machineIgor Soarez
A machine may need one of the parts left out: on a laptop it does not own, ~/.claude/settings.json is the owner's, holding their environment and plugins, and linking this account's over it is wrong in both directions -- theirs is lost, and anything of theirs worth keeping would have to be carried here, in the repo every machine shares. The file is hand-written and in no repo, like ~/.localenv, so the exception stays on the machine that needs it. The check is in link/lib.sh, as each part starts, rather than in link.sh's loop, so `link/claude.sh yes` obeys it too; link.sh and other repos' link.sh source that file as well, and sit outside link/, so their names can never be read as a part's.
2026-09-18link/claude: secrets in MCP specs, and a separate spec for DesktopIgor Soarez
Two things a spec in ~/.config/claude/mcp-servers.d/ may now carry beyond what Claude Code takes, both resolved at link time: - "${szecret:NAME}" in any string value, replaced with `szecret get NAME` when the server is registered with Claude Code. For a remote server's Authorization header: Claude Code's own headersHelper is not run in a workspace without persisted trust, which includes $HOME, so a token fetched that way is simply missing. A secret that cannot be read skips that server, loudly. - "desktop", a whole spec given to Claude Desktop instead. Desktop only starts local stdio servers, so a layer that moves a server to HTTP for Claude Code can keep Desktop on a local copy.
2026-09-17dotfilesIgor Soarez
Shell, editor and terminal configuration, the tools that go with them, and szecret, an age-based secret manager whose store lives elsewhere. History restarts here. What came before was not written to be read by anyone else, and carried machine names, addresses and an encrypted secret store; it is kept privately instead. What is left is meant to be safe on any machine, including one whose owner is not me: see CLAUDE.md for the rule it is written to.