mac/CLAUDE.md

mac

Ops home for Seth's MacBook Pro — debloat, Linux-feel, Ableton-first.

Start Here

Read the latest handoff first: .claude/handoffs/ (most recent file). It has session state, in-progress work, and ordered next steps.

Then check IDEA.md for the project brief and DECISIONS.md for settled choices.

Project Identity

Configuration + scripts for Seth's MacBook Pro (arrived 2026-09-15). Three goals, in priority order: (1) Ableton Live 12 runs clean — this is the DAW box now that Wine on steel141 is abandoned; (2) feels like Linux to a Linux user — GNU coreutils, ip, familiar shell, ssh-able from steel141; (3) stock macOS noise turned off. Sibling of ~/bin/ableton/ (which is now an archive of the Wine attempt) and ~/bin/thinkpad-yoga/ (same "ops home for a laptop" shape).

Current State

• Phase: ideation
• Repo: not yet
• Deploy target: the MacBook, ssh mac (192.168.0.94, user seth, en0 Wi-Fi)
• Hardware: MacBookPro18,1 (16" 2021), M1 Pro, 32 GB, 512 GB. macOS 26.2 Tahoe.
• Remote Login enabled + claude key installed 2026-09-15. ssh mac works from steel141.
• FileVault is on — no SSH after a reboot until the password is typed at the lid.
• Stock state is already clean: no Homebrew/CLT, only Safari in /Applications, Siri off, Apple Intelligence opted out. Full snapshot: docs/reference/inventory-2026-09-15.md — read when checking "was X stock?".
• No changes made yet.

Conventions

• All changes as scripts under scripts/ (bash, idempotent, set -euo pipefail); never one-off defaults write in a chat that isn't also committed.
• Before any defaults write: defaults read <domain> > .backup/<domain>-$(date +%s).plist
• Before any launchctl disable/bootout: record current launchctl print state to .backup/
• Homebrew Brewfile at repo root is the package manifest — brew bundle is the install
• macOS gotchas go in this file's Conventions; per-decision reasoning goes in DECISIONS.md