A manifest declares repo path -> target, and the script walks it. Symlinks, not copies, so an installed file edits the repo and one commit reaches every other machine. Idempotent — a correct link is a no-op, safe after every pull. A real file where a link should go is moved to .bak-<timestamp> and reported, because on a new machine that may be the only copy of something written by hand. Conditional targets are what make it portable: officer.dev/CLAUDE.md and the officer-chat-events hook both name ~/officer-dev/platform, so a laptop with no Officer install gets neither instead of getting a document that lies. mask-secret is a command now rather than a path only true on this machine, and user/CLAUDE.md says so. It is a generated wrapper, not a symlink, and that is forced: mask-secret.py resolves its own path to find mask-hooks.d, so a symlink would reach back into the repo and run every machine's hooks. The wrapper sets MASK_HOOKS_DIR to the ones this machine installed and still runs the script from the repo, so no code is copied. Verified against a scratch HOME: re-run is all ok, the hand-written file survives as .bak, and a machine without Officer skips both conditional lines.
claude-mds
CLAUDE.md files and Claude Code configuration, kept under version control.
Install, on any machine
git clone git@gitea.officer.dev:pastilhas/claude-mds.git ~/projects/claude-mds
~/projects/claude-mds/install.sh
--dry-run first if you want to see it before it happens.
Everything is symlinked, not copied — so editing an installed file edits the repo, and the change
is one git commit away from every other machine. Re-run it after each git pull; a correct link is
a no-op.
It will not overwrite anything in silence. A real file where a link should go is moved to
<name>.bak-<timestamp> and reported, because on a new machine that file may be the only copy of
something written by hand.
What lands where
manifest is the whole answer, and it is the only place paths are declared. Today:
| repo | target | only if |
|---|---|---|
user/CLAUDE.md |
~/.claude/CLAUDE.md |
always |
officer.dev/CLAUDE.md |
~/officer-dev/CLAUDE.md |
~/officer-dev/platform exists |
tools/mask-hooks.d/officer-chat-events |
~/.local/claude-scripts/mask-hooks.d/ |
~/officer-dev/platform exists |
Plus mask-secret on ~/.local/bin, as a command rather than a path.
Adding a file later is one manifest line, not an edit to the shell.
The two kinds of file
user/— who you are working with and how. Loads in every session on every machine.officer.dev/— one workspace on one machine. Conditional, so it never lands where it would be a lie.
mask-secret
Masks a pasted secret everywhere the chat history keeps it:
printf '%s' "$SECRET" | mask-secret
It owns Claude Code's own transcripts. Anywhere else that keeps a second copy of the chat — a
database, a mirror, a log shipper — is a hook: an executable in tools/mask-hooks.d/, listed in
the manifest with the condition that says which machines it belongs on.
The installed mask-secret is a small generated wrapper, and that is deliberate. The script finds its
hooks beside itself and resolves symlinks to do it, so a bare symlink would reach back into the repo
and run every machine's hooks. The wrapper points it at the ones this machine installed.