dotfiles

macOS config and agent skills, kept in one repo and symlinked into place.

git clone https://github.com/atulkadian/dotfiles.git ~/projects/dotfiles
cd ~/projects/dotfiles
./install.sh

The installer finds its own location, so the repo works from any path.

Layout

├── install.sh
├── home/               mirrors $HOME; every file here is symlinked
│   ├── .gitconfig
│   ├── .zshrc
│   └── .oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/derpBox.zsh-theme
├── macOS/
│   ├── Brewfile        formulae and casks
│   └── terminal/       Terminal.app profiles
└── skills/             agent skills for Claude Code and Cursor

Drop a file anywhere under home/ and the next run links it. Its path relative to home/ is its path relative to $HOME.

Commands

Flag	Does
(none) or --all	all four steps below
--dotfiles	link home/ into $HOME
--brew	install Homebrew, then the Brewfile
--skills	link each skill into Claude Code and Cursor
--terminal	import the Terminal.app profile and make it the default
--export-terminal	copy live Terminal.app settings back into the repo
--dry-run	print what would happen, change nothing

Re-running is safe. Links already pointing here are skipped, and anything else in the way moves to <file>.bak.<timestamp> first.

Terminal profiles are imported rather than symlinked, because Terminal.app keeps them in a preferences domain instead of a file. Quit and reopen Terminal if a new window still shows the old profile.

Skills

Skills are linked one at a time, so ~/.claude/skills and ~/.cursor/skills stay real directories. Skills already on a machine keep working, and skills an agent writes later land on local disk rather than in this repo. This repo is public, so that boundary matters on a work machine.

Run ./install.sh --skills after a pull brings in a new skill. Format is in skills/README.md.

Machine-specific config

Work identities, per-machine PATH entries and tokens stay out of git. Two files, both gitignored and both optional:

File	Loaded by
~/.gitconfig.local	included from home/.gitconfig
~/.zshrc.local	sourced at the end of home/.zshrc

A work identity scoped to one directory:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/abc/"]
	path = ~/projects/abc/.gitconfig