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alexion d5b67947f9 docs: establish domain model, MVI spec, and environment reference
Capture the design work for the NixOS migration before any implementation:

- .claude/CONTEXT.md: domain glossary (Host, Module, Skeleton, Auto-loader,
  Enable convention, unstable/stable overlay)
- .claude/adr/0001-sops-nix-for-secrets.md: secrets tooling decision
- .claude/spec/laptop-mvi.md: frozen minimum-viable-install spec for neogaia

- reference/: read-only snapshot of the current CachyOS configs (secrets and
  state excluded), plus ENVIRONMENT.md profiling the live environment to guide
  replication
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reference/

A frozen snapshot of the live CachyOS environment on neogaia, captured before the NixOS migration.

This is a read-only reference, not part of the flake. Nothing here is imported or built — it exists so the NixOS rebuild can be diffed against the environment it replaces. Files mirror their real home paths under home/ (e.g. home/.config/nvim/ was ~/.config/nvim/).

What's here

  • Terminal / shell / editor: alacritty, fish (minus fish_variables), tmux, nvim, micro (settings.json + colorschemes only).
  • Shell RCs: bash and zsh rc/profile files, .profile.
  • KDE Plasma (curated): the meaningful config (kdeglobals, kwinrc, kglobalshortcutsrc, kxkbrc, kcminputrc, panel applets, konsole, dolphin, spectacle, power management, monitor layout) — pure runtime state was skipped.
  • Theming / fonts: gtk-3.0, gtk-4.0, gtkrc-2.0, fontconfig, xsettingsd, Qt config.
  • Misc: mimeapps.list, user-dirs.dirs, shelly/config.json, .gitconfig, .gitignore.

What was deliberately excluded

  • Secrets / keys: .ssh, .claude*, tea (Gitea token), kdeconnect (device keys), libaccounts-glib, kwalletrc, .pki.
  • Browser data: mozilla profiles.
  • Electron app state: open-whispr (230M, contained a .env and encrypted keys), obsidian (per-vault config lives in each vault), VSCodium (no user settings.json existed — only default state).
  • Caches / runtime state: .cache, .npm, .cargo, .rustup, .local, .var, dconf, pulse, micro's shipped syntax/ defs, *.bak.

Known cleanups the rebuild must apply

  • fish config.fish sources CachyOS-only cachyos-config.fish, and hardcodes impure ~/.bun / ~/.local/opt/node PATHs.
  • fish aliases include Arch/pacman-specific entries that don't apply on NixOS.
  • The KDE and Arch package-manager (shelly) configs are environment-specific and only partially relevant.