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# awsettings

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**[Docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awsettings/)**  ·  [Source](https://github.com/Aitherium/awsettings)  ·  `pip install awsettings`  ·  [The Aither World](https://aitherium.github.io/)

> **The Aither World** is an operating system for agents — a Linux you can hand to one, the runtimes it works in, and the tools it works with. [awnix](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnix) is the Linux underneath it; **awsettings** is one of its 46 bricks — each installs on its own, runs offline, and needs no account.
>
> **Start here:** Point it at your agent's settings on one machine and have them show up on the next one you open.

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**Your agent's permissions and config, following you to the next machine.**

```bash
pip install awsettings
awsettings hook install     # and never think about it again
```

Your coding agent keeps its permission allowlist, its enabled tool servers and its
hooks in a local file. Open a session on a second machine — a laptop, a shell on a
server, a dev container your phone just spun up — and none of it is there.

So you approve the same action again. By hand. Once per surface. Forever. And the
copies drift apart while every one of them looks perfectly correct.

## What you get

```
$ awsettings status
local:  /home/you/project/.claude/settings.local.json (present)
remote: file:/home/you/.awsettings/profile.json
hooks:  PostToolUse, SessionStart
a pull would apply 2 change(s):
  + permissions.allow: Bash(python tools/deploy.py:*)
  + enabledMcpjsonServers: my-server
```

```
$ awsettings pull
applied 2 change(s) to /home/you/project/.claude/settings.local.json:
  + permissions.allow: Bash(python tools/deploy.py:*)
  + enabledMcpjsonServers: my-server
```

## Three rules it will not break

**Credentials never travel** — and they are dropped by *name*, not by inspecting
the value. A "does this look like a token" heuristic passes every secret that does
not look like one, and that failure is invisible until the secret is already
published. `env`, `apiKeyHelper`, `awsCredentialExport`, `sandbox.credentials` and
their kin stay on the machine they were typed on. `awsettings push --dry-run`
prints exactly what would leave.

**Arrays union; they are never replaced.** Two machines both edit this file. With
replace semantics, machine B silently loses the rule machine A never had — and
neither of them can tell. Every list here merges.

**A deny is one-way.** A sync may *add* a deny or ask rule. It may never drop one.
A lost allow rule costs you a prompt; a lost deny rule costs you the thing the deny
existed to prevent, quietly, on a machine whose owner still believes it is there.
If you genuinely want to remove one everywhere, `--prune-denies` says so out loud.

## It writes the personal file, not the shared one

Only `.claude/settings.local.json` — gitignored, yours. Never the committed
`.claude/settings.json`, because syncing your permission allowlist into a file
your team reviews as policy hands everyone rules they never approved.

## Autonomy is a hook, not a daemon

```bash
awsettings hook install
```

* **SessionStart → pull.** A new machine is stale before its first tool call, so
  that is when it catches up.
* **A settings write → push**, debounced. A rule you approve here is on its way to
  the others before you have finished the thought.

No background process. A daemon is a second thing to keep alive on every surface
this exists to stop hand-maintaining — and when it dies, it dies quietly, which is
the same failure as the drift it was meant to fix. Both hooks end in `|| true`:
a settings sync must never be able to fail a session open, because offline is the
normal state of a laptop and the correct behaviour offline is to carry on.

## Where the profile lives

No account required. The default is a plain JSON file in a folder you already sync
— a git repo, a drive folder, a USB stick:

```bash
export AWSETTINGS_PROFILE=~/Dropbox/awsettings.json
```

Or point it at any endpoint that serves a JSON object on `GET` and merges one on
`PUT`:

```bash
export AWSETTINGS_URL=https://example.com/api/settings/preferences
export AWSETTINGS_TOKEN=...     # environment only — never a command-line flag,
                                # which lands in shell history and the process list
```

A transport failure is never read as "no settings": both backends raise, and the
CLI exits **2** rather than merging nothing and reporting success.

## Exit codes

| code | meaning |
|---|---|
| 0 | did the thing (or there was nothing to do — it says which) |
| 1 | a rule refused it |
| 2 | could not judge: profile unreachable, or a settings file would not parse |

## Prove it before you trust it

```bash
awsettings --self-test
```

Runs offline. Asserts that credentials neither leave nor arrive, that arrays union
instead of replacing, that a deny is never dropped by default, that installing the
hooks twice leaves one hook and does not clobber somebody else's, that a malformed
settings file refuses rather than reading as empty, and that writes are atomic.

## Licence

Apache-2.0.

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## The aw family

Standalone tools that share one idea: **replace something you would otherwise have to _trust_ with something you can _check_.**

Each installs on its own, works offline, and needs no account.

| | instead of trusting | you check |
|---|---|---|
| [awdk](https://github.com/Aitherium/awdk) | a framework's idea of how your agents should run | one loop you can read, pointed at a backend you already pay for |
| [awskills](https://github.com/Aitherium/awskills) | that an agent knows your procedure | the procedure written down, versioned, and loadable by any agent |
| [awpack](https://github.com/Aitherium/awpack) | that the pack you want shipped inside somebody's SDK, under whatever licence that SDK happens to carry | the pack as its own versioned artifact, with its own licence, that any agent runtime can install |
| [awm](https://github.com/Aitherium/awm) | that memory stayed in its lane | tenant:user:project scopes, so a write cannot cross a boundary |
| [awnode](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnode) | a vendor's cloud with every prompt | a local gateway routing to backends you chose |
| [awgraph](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgraph) | that grep found everything | an AST + tree-sitter call graph an agent can traverse |
| [awgit](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgit) | that no one else is editing this file | a lease, refused at commit time if you do not hold it |
| [awdelphi](https://github.com/Aitherium/awdelphi) | one agent's confident take on a decision | the round trace, the anonymity, and who dissents |
| [awtoll](https://github.com/Aitherium/awtoll) | that your tooling is saving you context | the measured token cost of each tool call, and what the alternative cost |
| [awseal](https://github.com/Aitherium/awseal) | that the artifact came from who you think | an Ed25519 seal — the key that verifies is not the key that forges |
| [awshare](https://github.com/Aitherium/awshare) | that the download is intact | content-addressed bundles, verified on fetch |
| [awnest](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnest) | that there is a person on the other end | a verdict with evidence, where "we could not tell" is not "yes" |
| [awnboard](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnboard) | a share link anyone who sees it can use | an invitation addressed to one person, for one gate, revocable |
| [awnix](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnix) | that the box is what you left it as | an immutable image you built, with atomic rollback |
| [awrecover](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrecover) | that the restore worked | a restore that fully lands or does not land at all |
| [awstorage](https://github.com/Aitherium/awstorage) | a du you ran last month, and a peers file that says 3 TB free | an inventory snapshot per node with a diff since the last one, and each tree classified re-fetchable or not |
| [awrelay](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrelay) | a SaaS in the middle of your agents | findings, alerts and coordination over your own transport |
| [awask](https://github.com/Aitherium/awask) | that anyone read the paragraph where you asked | the ask itself, with a button that steers the session that raised it |
| [awmail](https://github.com/Aitherium/awmail) | a mailbox somebody else can read | mail your agents send and receive over your own server |
| [awfind](https://github.com/Aitherium/awfind) | one vendor's idea of the web | results from whichever providers you configured |
| [awbrowse](https://github.com/Aitherium/awbrowse) | that the page said what you were told | the render, the DOM and the requests it made |
| [gawbbonet](https://github.com/Aitherium/gawbbonet) | the model to keep a 300-message campaign coherent by itself | campaign facts recalled from scoped memory you can list and edit |
| [aitherkvcache](https://github.com/Aitherium/aitherkvcache) | a vendor's quantisation defaults | sub-byte KV cache kernels you can benchmark yourself |
| [awrtifact](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrtifact) | a hand-rolled split script and a hand-edited worker manifest | byte-verified parts in a release, served with Range + CORS, sizes asserted by a live gate |
| [AitherZero](https://github.com/Aitherium/AitherZero) | a pile of scripts nobody has numbered | numbered, discoverable automation with declarative playbooks |
| [AitherConnect](https://github.com/Aitherium/AitherConnect) | what a page tells your browser to do | a federated search and desktop bridge you host |
| [awreason](https://github.com/Aitherium/awreason) | a confident paragraph | the phases it went through, and every tool call it made to get there |
| [awrecurse](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrecurse) | that everything you pasted in was actually read | which slices it opened, and what it concluded from each |
| [awprism](https://github.com/Aitherium/awprism) | the first explanation that fits | the ranked alternatives, and the observation that separates them |
| [awrepl](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrepl) | what the agent believes the value is | the value, printed from the live session |
| [awresearch](https://github.com/Aitherium/awresearch) | a summary of pages nobody opened | every claim against the source it came from |
| [awfocus](https://github.com/Aitherium/awfocus) | twelve terminal tabs and a bad memory | one command that names every session, finds any transcript, and opens or steers the one you want |
| [awgym](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgym) | that a world model learned anything from the games it saw | transitions captured from real play, fed back, and the retrodiction score falling on grids it never saw |
| [awpredict](https://github.com/Aitherium/awpredict) | a model because it trained without erroring | its prediction against a self-updating lookup, on the rows that are actually novel |
| [awsh](https://github.com/Aitherium/awsh) | that you already know the name of the command | what it decided your line meant, before it acts on it |
| [awkno](https://github.com/Aitherium/awkno) | that the docs site is up, or that you remember the family | the whole ecosystem in your terminal, with no network at all |
| [awembed](https://github.com/Aitherium/awembed) | a general-purpose embedder that has never seen your code | a held-out split of whole directories, scored teacher vs student vs int8 |
| [awtax](https://github.com/Aitherium/awtax) | a closed tax app's sealed file you can never read again | a plain, provider-neutral schema of every figure, with the page it came from |
| **awsettings** _(you are here)_ | that you will remember to re-approve the same thing on every box you work from | one profile, unioned rather than overwritten, with the credentials left behind |

[**awnix**](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnix) is the ground floor — A Linux you can hand to an agent — immutable base, capabilities included.

## The Aitherium ecosystem

Every repository here is public. Each publishes an `aither-manifest.json` beside its page, so any surface can read every sibling's — the network is browsable from any node in it.

| repo | what it is | pages |
|---|---|---|
| [awdk](https://github.com/Aitherium/awdk) | Build AI agent fleets — 3 lines, any backend, local or cloud | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awdk/) |
| [awskills](https://github.com/Aitherium/awskills) | Portable agent skills — self-contained procedures an agent loads on demand | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awskills/) |
| [awpack](https://github.com/Aitherium/awpack) | First-party agent packs — the ones we build, versioned and installable on their own | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awpack/) |
| [awm](https://github.com/Aitherium/awm) | A portable, scoped agent memory | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awm/) |
| [awnode](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnode) | A lightweight local gateway — bridges your apps to the AI backends you chose | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awnode/) |
| [awrun](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrun) | A priority-aware queue and dispatcher for agentic runs and ad-hoc CI builds. It also judges whether the runner pool is big enough for the queue it is draining, and can ask a host to grow it -- reserving capacity is zero-sum, so a saturated pool needs more of it, not a different share of it | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awrun/) |
| [awgraph](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgraph) | A semantic code graph for agents — AST + tree-sitter, call graphs | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awgraph/) |
| [awgit](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgit) | Semantic version control on top of git — edit-ops and leases | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awgit/) |
| [awdelphi](https://github.com/Aitherium/awdelphi) | Anonymous multi-round expert panels — a converged answer with a trace | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awdelphi/) |
| [awtoll](https://github.com/Aitherium/awtoll) | What every tool call costs you in context, measured from your own transcripts | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awtoll/) |
| [awseal](https://github.com/Aitherium/awseal) | Sign an artifact so a stranger can verify it | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awseal/) |
| [awshare](https://github.com/Aitherium/awshare) | Publish an artifact and fetch it back verified | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awshare/) |
| [awdit](https://github.com/Aitherium/awdit) | An append-only audit trail whose gaps are DETECTABLE | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awdit/) |
| [awbac](https://github.com/Aitherium/awbac) | Role-based access control that fails closed and explains itself | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awbac/) |
| [awiam](https://github.com/Aitherium/awiam) | Who is this caller? A directory and session store that fails honestly | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awiam/) |
| [awtunnel](https://github.com/Aitherium/awtunnel) | Reach a service that has no public address | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awtunnel/) |
| [awnest](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnest) | Prove there is a human before you let them into the nest | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awnest/) |
| [awnboard](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnboard) | A front gate you can put in front of anything, and hand someone the key to | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awnboard/) |
| [awnix](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnix) | A Linux you can hand to an agent — immutable base, capabilities included | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awnix/) |
| [awrecover](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrecover) | Labelled snapshots with an all-or-nothing restore | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awrecover/) |
| [awstorage](https://github.com/Aitherium/awstorage) | Every drive on every node, indexed, classified and diffed -- so you can see what you own before you delete it | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awstorage/) |
| [awrelay](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrelay) | Portable agent messaging — findings, alerts, coordination | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awrelay/) |
| [awask](https://github.com/Aitherium/awask) | Your agent asks you a question — and acts on your answer | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awask/) |
| [awmail](https://github.com/Aitherium/awmail) | Give an agent an email address — send, and actually receive | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awmail/) |
| [awnet](https://github.com/Aitherium/awnet) | The agentic web — agents host a mesh, and agents join one | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awnet/) |
| [awfind](https://github.com/Aitherium/awfind) | A portable search client — query, results, ranking | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awfind/) |
| [awbrowse](https://github.com/Aitherium/awbrowse) | A portable browser client — navigate, console, network, DOM, screenshot | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awbrowse/) |
| [awknowledge](https://github.com/Aitherium/awknowledge) | How to run a coding agent so the result survives — the laws, with evidence | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awknowledge/) |
| [gawbbonet](https://github.com/Aitherium/gawbbonet) | GobboNet campaigns with a real agent brain — scoped memory, graph recall | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/gawbbonet/) |
| [aitherkvcache](https://github.com/Aitherium/aitherkvcache) | Near-optimal KV cache quantization for LLM inference — sub-byte compression | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/aitherkvcache/) |
| [awrtifact](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrtifact) | Deliberately chunk artifacts into GitHub release assets — the productized aitherkvcache mirror lane | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awrtifact/) |
| [AitherZero](https://github.com/Aitherium/AitherZero) | PowerShell 7+ automation framework — numbered, self-describing scripts | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/AitherZero/) |
| [AitherConnect](https://github.com/Aitherium/AitherConnect) | Browser extension — federated AI search, page context, and the Living OS overlay | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/AitherConnect/) |
| [awreason](https://github.com/Aitherium/awreason) | A portable reasoning client — sessions, phases, thoughts, and the chain that produced the answer | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awreason/) |
| [awrecurse](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrecurse) | Answer a question over a context far larger than the window — recursively, with the trace kept | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awrecurse/) |
| [awprism](https://github.com/Aitherium/awprism) | Turn a failure into ranked hypotheses — and say what would confirm each one | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awprism/) |
| [awrepl](https://github.com/Aitherium/awrepl) | A REPL an agent can actually use — state that survives between turns | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awrepl/) |
| [awresearch](https://github.com/Aitherium/awresearch) | Ask a research question, get a cited report you can check | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awresearch/) |
| [awfocus](https://github.com/Aitherium/awfocus) | See, search and steer every Claude session from one command | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awfocus/) |
| [awgym](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgym) | An ARC training gym — a game a world model can watch, and six roles that play through it | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awgym/) |
| [awpredict](https://github.com/Aitherium/awpredict) | Predict what your environment does next, and how surprised you were | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awpredict/) |
| [awsh](https://github.com/Aitherium/awsh) | Your terminal answers you -- type a question where a command would go | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awsh/) |
| [awkno](https://github.com/Aitherium/awkno) | The man page for the Aither World — every brick, stack and law, offline | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awkno/) |
| [awembed](https://github.com/Aitherium/awembed) | Train an embedding model that knows your corpus, and prove it beats the big one | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awembed/) |
| [awtax](https://github.com/Aitherium/awtax) | Turn any tax PDF -- returns, W-2, 1099, statements, even scans -- into structured data you can check | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awtax/) |
| **awsettings** _(you are here)_ | Your agent's permissions and config, following you to the next machine | [docs](https://aitherium.github.io/awsettings/) |

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