mini-dotfiles

A friendly terminal setup for using Claude Code at November Five. Designed for everyone — no developer experience needed.

What you get

• Ghostty — a fast, beautiful terminal
• Claude Code — AI assistant in your terminal
• GitHub Desktop — simple Git GUI for cloning, committing, and pushing
• Starship — a clean, colorful prompt
• Finder actions — right-click any folder to open Ghostty or Claude there
• N5 skills — Claude Code skills shared across the company

Install

Option A: Double-click (easiest)

1. Download Install Mini-Dotfiles.app (from Slack or this repo's app/ folder)
2. Double-click it
3. If macOS warns about an unidentified developer, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway"

That's it — a Terminal window opens and walks you through everything.

Option B: One-liner

Open Terminal (Spotlight → type "Terminal") and paste:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/novemberfiveco/mini-dotfiles/main/bootstrap.sh | zsh

This installs developer tools, clones the repo, and runs the interactive setup.

After install

1. Open Ghostty (Spotlight → type "Ghostty")
2. Type claude to start Claude Code
3. Right-click any folder in Finder → Open Ghostty Here or Open Claude Here
4. Read the documentation / learning track in the docs folder

Updating skills

Open Ghostty and run:

git -C ~/code/skills pull

Skills are symlinked — pulling updates them immediately.

Files

File	Purpose
bootstrap.sh	First-run bootstrap (installs Xcode tools, clones repo, runs setup)
setup.sh	Interactive installer
zshrc	Shell configuration (symlinked to ~/.zshrc)
gitconfig.template	Git config template (filled during setup)
gitignore	Global git ignore rules
config/ghostty/config	Ghostty terminal theme & settings
config/starship.toml	Prompt configuration
Brewfile	Homebrew packages, casks, and extensions
app/	Double-clickable macOS installer app