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nix-config CLAUDE.md

nix-config CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from malob/nix-config. It costs 1,466 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for managing a computer’s macOS and Linux settings with Nix, a configuration system that describes software and system setup in files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building and applying the macOS setup, testing it without applying changes, updating Nix package inputs, and finding system, user, and application configuration files.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent the commands and folder structure needed to build, test, switch, and update this configuration safely.

Instructions file

not rated 462 5d ago C scan 1,466 tokens original MIT
View the source file malob/nix-config
Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/malob/nix-config/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/malob/nix-config

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Opus 5 $0.00733 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00293 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00147 $0.00147

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Security

Grade C, and why

nix-config CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/malos-plugins/<plugin-name>
CLAUDE.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Build Commands

# Build and switch to the macOS nix-darwin configuration
nh darwin switch --no-nom

# Build without switching (for testing)
nh darwin build --no-nom

# Update all flake inputs
nix flake update

# Update a specific input
nix flake update nixpkgs-unstable

Architecture

This is a Nix flake that manages system configuration for macOS (via nix-darwin) and Linux (via home-manager).

Key Structure

  • flake.nix - Main entry point defining inputs, outputs, overlays, and system configurations
  • darwin/ - nix-darwin modules for macOS system-level configuration
  • home/ - home-manager modules for user-level configuration
  • modules/ - Reusable modules (both darwin and home-manager)
  • lib/ - Helper functions including mkDarwinSystem
  • configs/ - Application configs (Claude Code) symlinked for live editing
  • overlays/ - Nixpkgs overlays

System Configurations

  • darwinConfigurations.MaloBookPro - Primary macOS config, built with lib.mkDarwinSystem
  • darwinConfigurations.githubCI - CI variant with homebrew disabled
  • homeConfigurations.malo - Standalone home-manager config for Linux

User Info Pattern

User info is defined once and referenced throughout:

  1. Passed to lib.mkDarwinSystem as username, fullName, email, nixConfigDirectory
  2. Set on users.primaryUser in darwin config
  3. Available as config.home.user-info in all home-manager modules

Example usage in a home module:

{ config, ... }:
let
  inherit (config.home.user-info) email nixConfigDirectory;
in { ... }

Live-Editable Configs

Files in configs/ are symlinked via mkOutOfStoreSymlink, allowing edits without rebuild:

  • configs/claude/ → ~/.claude/ (CLAUDE-USER.md → CLAUDE.md, settings.json, commands, plugins, etc.)

Claude Code settings use a hybrid approach:

  • managed-settings.json (Nix-generated at /Library/Application Support/ClaudeCode/): Has highest precedence. Contains only path-dependent settings needing nixConfigDirectory interpolation (additionalDirectories, nix-config permissions, extraKnownMarketplaces). Created by darwin/claude-managed-settings.nix.
  • settings.json (user-editable symlink from configs/claude/): All other settings using portable ~ paths. Edit directly without rebuild.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 132 lines · 1,466 tokens per session scan C 37b281aea22a

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nix-config CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository malob/nix-config (462 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,466 tokens to every session, about $0.0073 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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