Chezmoi Dotfiles Management

About

This skill provides a safe and structured workflow for managing configuration files using chezmoi. It enables Claude to track local changes, compare differences between system files and stored configurations, and work with sophisticated Go-style templates while preserving environment-specific logic. By enforcing critical safety rules—such as prioritizing local additions over destructive overwrites—it ensures that user modifications are correctly captured and integrated into dotfiles repositories without the risk of accidental data loss.

Key Features

• Analyzes file modification timestamps to guide synchronization decisions.
• Validates template rendering to preview changes before they are finalized.
• Safely compares local files with managed versions using diff and status commands.
• Tracks local configuration changes by adding files to chezmoi source control.
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• Handles complex Go template logic and environment-specific conditionals.

Use Cases

• Synchronizing local configuration edits into a managed dotfiles repository.
• Reviewing differences between current system state and version-controlled config files.
• Updating and debugging complex .tmpl files without overwriting local modifications.