A practical recipe for keeping the authored parts of your AI tools (instructions, skills, agents, commands, prompts, settings) in git while leaving the runtime junk (chat history, project caches, transcripts, telemetry, plugins) out of it.
This guide is written for both humans and agents handed the job "set up dotfile management for my AI tools." Follow it top-to-bottom on a fresh machine, or jump to Adding a new AI tool if chezmoi is already initialized.
Keep all your local clones up to date in the background, so you never cd into a stale checkout. A launchd agent fires on an interval and fast-forwards each repo, and pops a notification if any repo can't update.
Two versions:
git pull --ff-only loop. No dependencies beyond git. Start here.gitup to update every tracking branch, not just the checked-out one. More powerful, but fragile around git worktrees (see the warning).Both rely on the same discipline: only edit inside a git worktree so your primary checkouts stay clean mirrors of origin. --ff-only (and gitup) refuse to clobber a dirty or diverged tree — they skip it. The flip side: a repo you've left dirty silently stops auto-updating until you clean it, so the notifier tells you when that happens.
A language-agnostic guide for implementing hot-reloadable MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that update tools without process restarts.
When building MCP servers for AI agents (Claude, GPT, etc.), code changes typically require:
| @Composable | |
| fun SafeTextField(modifier = Modifier){ | |
| TextField( | |
| modifier = modifier.onPreviewKeyEvent { | |
| it.nativeKeyEvent.keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL | |
| } | |
| ) |
| codesign -d --extract-certificates ./[App Name Here].app; | |
| openssl x509 -inform DER -in codesign0 -out codesign0.pem; | |
| openssl x509 -inform DER -in codesign1 -out codesign1.pem; | |
| openssl x509 -inform DER -in codesign2 -out codesign2.pem; | |
| cat codesign1.pem codesign2.pem > cachain.pem; | |
| openssl x509 -inform DER -in codesign0 -noout -nameopt -oneline -subject -serial -dates; |
| /^((\b(localhost)\b:[0-9]+)|([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{1,61}[a-z0-9](?:\.[a-z]{2,})+(:[0-9]+)?))$/ |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop tomcat | |
| cd /opt/bitnami | |
| sudo cp -f apache-tomcat/webapps/jenkins.war apps/jenkins/jenkins.war.bak | |
| sudo rm -r apache-tomcat/webapps/jenkins | |
| sudo rm -r apache-tomcat/webapps/jenkins.war | |
| sudo rm -r apache-tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/jenkins | |
| sudo wget http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/latest/jenkins.war | |
| sudo mv jenkins.war apache-tomcat/webapps/ |
| // Available variables which can be used inside of strings. | |
| // ${workspaceRoot}: the root folder of the team | |
| // ${file}: the current opened file | |
| // ${fileBasename}: the current opened file's basename | |
| // ${fileDirname}: the current opened file's dirname | |
| // ${fileExtname}: the current opened file's extension | |
| // ${cwd}: the current working directory of the spawned process | |
| { | |
| "version": "0.1.0", | |
| "command": "cargo", |
| { | |
| // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes. | |
| // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes. | |
| // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387 | |
| "version": "0.2.0", | |
| "configurations": [ | |
| { | |
| "name": "Debug", | |
| "type": "lldb", |
| USE master | |
| GO | |
| IF OBJECT_ID('sp_helpindex2', 'P') IS NOT NULL | |
| BEGIN | |
| DROP PROCEDURE sp_helpindex2 | |
| END | |
| IF OBJECT_ID('sp_helpindex3', 'P') IS NOT NULL | |
| BEGIN | |
| DROP PROCEDURE sp_helpindex3 | |
| END |