nix-config-desktop SKILL.md skillA
nix-config-desktop from ryan4yin/nix-config is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ryan4yin/nix-config/nix-config-desktop@git:20261010.d808dd9Pins git:20261010.d808dd9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ryan4yin/nix-config
- Path
.agents/skills/nix-config-desktop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261010.d808dd9, committed Oct 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 2, 2026
- Size
- 6,979 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,104
- License
- MIT
Use when changing what the desktop shows or runs: Niri/Noctalia config, a window that is the wrong size, garbled, or missing after a reboot, autostart, fcitx5 or vinput input, theming and fonts, interface names a widget reads, or `$HOME` state that must survive a tmpfs root.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Changing the desktop The desktop is a Niri + Noctalia Wayland session, shared by two hosts: `ai-niri` (hostName `ai`, x86_64) and `shoukei-niri` (hostName `shoukei`, Apple Silicon). Shared config lives in `home/linux/gui/**`; each host adds `hosts/<dir>/niri-hardware.kdl` and its own `home/hosts/linux/<dir>.nix`. Run `hostname` to know which one you are on. Most of the config is deployed as **out-of-store symlinks**, so an edit takes effect live, rolls back with git, and needs no rebuild. Only the store layer needs one. ## Core rules 1. **Edit the config layer, not the store.** Niri KDL and the Noctalia baseline are symlinked out of store; editing them applies immediately. A rebuild is wasted time and hides the change behind a generation. Scale the caution to the risk: a bar, OSD, notification, or wallpaper tweak is safe to try on the running session and undo with git, but a compositor, keybinding, input, output, idle, or portal change can take the session the user is looking at down with it. Treat that second kind as impactful, and do not experiment on the live desktop with it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ryan4yin/nix-config/nix-config-desktop@sha256:bd0f9671341f63f7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.d808dd9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pctisjiqgfl6p423)
2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every day. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261010.d808dd9 latest | 2026-10-10 | d808dd9 | 6,979 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.9d69832 | 2026-10-10 | 9d69832 | 7,082 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.3b63028 | 2026-10-10 | 3b63028 | 8,486 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.8843df1 | 2026-10-10 | 8843df1 | 8,483 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261010.a2cfa55 | 2026-10-10 | a2cfa55 | 8,259 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261002.68ea04f | 2026-10-02 | 68ea04f | 7,935 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261002.b2ec56d | 2026-10-02 | b2ec56d | 7,927 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6979 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ryan4yin/nix-config · 2,104 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pctisjiqgfl6p423 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ryan4yin/nix-config/nix-config-desktop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bd0f9671341f63f77ac4b50079e8b41f60f2c1273cdd9bf75bdb5b4381053368
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