env

My development environment configurations and setup. Nice and simple, can be run with one script.

git clone git@github.com:robertbenjamin/env.git ~/Documents/Work/env
cd~/Documents/Work/env
./install.sh # --dry-run to see what it would do
./verify.sh # check the machine matches the repo

How it works

home/ mirrors $HOME, so the directory structure is the mapping — install.sh walks the tree and symlinks every file it finds. Editing ~/.config/fish/config.fishis editing home/.config/fish/config.fish, so git status always shows what has drifted.

Replaced files are moved to ~/.env-backup/<timestamp>/ first. Re-running is safe.

What's here

• Fish — Git abbreviations, show/hide hidden files, sfish to reload, autojump, paths
• Starship — minimal two-line prompt with Git status
• Claude Code — CLAUDE.md, RTK.md, settings and the rtk hook
• iTerm2 — full profile, Material Palenight
• Brewfile — CLI tools and apps, all from homebrew-core
• Zsh — a fallback shell only; fish is the login shell
• mise — pins node plus global typescript / typescript-language-server
• Git — user, autoSetupRemote, ff = only, global gitignore
• gh — co alias, ssh git protocol

Setup

install.sh runs six stages — brew, links, runtimes, claude, iterm, shell — any of which can be run alone with --only <stage>. runtimes follows links because mise reads the symlinked config.

Then the things that need a browser or a credential:

• gh auth login --git-protocol ssh — also generates and uploads the SSH key
• gcloud auth login && gcloud auth application-default login
• colima start before first container use
• claude, then /login
• VS Code — sign in, turn on Settings Sync
• Restart iTerm2 to pick up the repo prefs folder

Deliberately not here

• VS Code config — Settings Sync already does it
• .npmrc, .yarnrc.yml, gh hosts.yml, SSH keys — tokens and credentials
• ~/.ssh/config — id_ed25519 is already in ssh's default identity list
• macOS defaults — still by hand, see below

Todo

• macos-defaults.sh for keyboard repeat, Finder, Dock and screenshot settings