These are my dotfiles. Take anything you want, but at your own risk.

It mainly targets macOS systems, but it works on at least Ubuntu as well.

Warning The Linux is not working in the moment, beacuse the $HOME will change to /root

• Minimal efforts to install everything, using a Makefile
• Mostly based around Homebrew, Cask, ASDF, NPM, latest Bash + GNU Utils
• Fast and colored prompt
• Updated macOS defaults (Dock, Systen)
• Interactive macOS setup now prompts for computer name (with fallback and env override)
• GitHub Copilot custom instructions, custom agent files, and chat modes (plan, agent, review, test, document) for enhanced AI assistance
• The installation and runcom setup is tested on real Ubuntu and macOS machines using a GitHub Action
• Post install dotfiles command line to restall, update packages, etc.

• Homebrew (packages: Brewfile)
• Homebrew Cask (packages: Caskfile)
• asdf (packages: .tool-versions)
• Vs Code (packages: VSCodefile)
• Latest Git, Bash 4, GNU coreutils, curl

Flexible AI customization with selectable workspace instruction files, task-specific chat modes, and optional global agent/persona linking.

Loaded from:

• .github/copilot-instructions.md (always loaded)
• .github/instructions/ (your active subset)

Selection source (catalog) is config/copilot/instructions/. The make copilot target invokes the interactive selector (bin/copilot-select).

Interactive selection:

make copilot            # shows list; enter numbers or filenames

Non-interactive (indexes):

COPILOT_INSTRUCTIONS="1,3" make copilot

Non-interactive (filenames):

COPILOT_INSTRUCTIONS="shell-scripts.instructions.md,documentation.instructions.md" make copilot

Behavior: Only the selected files are copied (added/overwritten) into .github/instructions/; existing instruction files not in the selection are preserved (non‑destructive update).

Located in .github/chatmodes/:

• agent.chatmode.md – Implementation & handoffs
• plan.chatmode.md – Planning only, no edits
• review.chatmode.md – Code quality & security review
• test.chatmode.md – Test case generation (bats focus)
• document.chatmode.md – Documentation generation

Make them available in all VS Code (Insiders) workspaces:

make copilot-global

This symlinks files from config/copilot/{instructions,chatmodes,agents} into the user prompts directory. Omit if you want per‑project isolation only.

Add custom personas:

echo "# My reviewer" > config/copilot/agents/security.agent.md
make copilot-global

make copilot                # choose/update active instructions
dotfiles copilot            # inspect workspace Copilot status
COPILOT_INSTRUCTIONS="1,3" make copilot  # scripted update
make copilot-global         # (optional) enable globally

On a sparkling fresh installation of macOS:

sudo softwareupdate -i -a
xcode-select --install

The Xcode Command Line Tools includes git and make (not available on stock macOS). Now there are two options:

1. Install this repo with curl available:

bash -c "`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ntsd/dotfiles/master/remote-install.sh`"

This will clone or download, this repo to ~/.dotfiles depending on the availability of git, curl or wget.

1. Alternatively, clone manually into the desired location:

git clone https://github.com/ntsd/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Use the Makefile to install everything listed above, and symlink runcom and config (using stow):

cd ~/.dotfiles
COMPUTER_NAME="MyMac" make

# During `make macos` the defaults script will prompt:
#   Enter desired computer name [CurrentName] (leave blank to keep):
# You can automate this by providing an environment variable:
#   COMPUTER_NAME="MyMac" make macos
# If omitted, existing ComputerName or hostname is used.

$ dotfiles help
Usage: dotfiles <command>

Commands:
  help             This help message
  clean            Clean up caches (brew)
  copilot          Show workspace Copilot instruction/chatmode usage
  copilot-global   Link user-level Copilot prompt files (advanced)
   dock             Apply macOS Dock settings
   macos            Apply macOS system defaults
   test             Run tests
   asdf             Update asdf global packages
   brew             Update Homebrew/Cask packages
   node             Update Node packages
   update           Update packages and pkg managers (OS, brew, npm)

You can put your custom settings, such as Git credentials in the system/.custom file which will be sourced from .bash_profile automatically. This file is in .gitignore.

Alternatively, you can have an additional, personal dotfiles repo at ~/.extra. The runcom .bash_profile sources all ~/.extra/*.sh files.

Workspace-only:

make copilot

Global (user-level prompts):

make copilot-global

Add a custom agent persona:

echo "# Incident responder" > config/copilot/agents/pagerduty.agent.md
make copilot-global

To script instruction activation in CI (non-interactive):

COPILOT_INSTRUCTIONS="general.instructions.md,markdown.instructions.md" make copilot

This dotfile is fork from @webpro Dotfiles.

Many thanks to the dotfiles community.