# apk_claudetools — CLI toolset that makes Claude Code effective on this host. # # Install everything: # doas apk add $(sed 's/#.*//' ~/.config/alpine/apk_claudetools | tr -s '[:space:]' ' ') # # Install one tier: # doas apk add $(sed -n '/^## TIER: high/,/^## TIER:/p' ~/.config/alpine/apk_claudetools | sed 's/#.*//') # # Check what is still missing: # for p in $(sed 's/#.*//' ~/.config/alpine/apk_claudetools); do \ # apk info -e "$p" >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "MISSING $p"; done # # Status markers below reflect 2026-08-20. Package names are apk names, not # binary names (ripgrep provides rg, yq-go provides yq, ncdu2 provides ncdu). ## TIER: core — already installed, listed so a rebuild reproduces this host ripgrep # rg — fast recursive search; Claude's primary code-search tool fd # fd — fast file find, sane defaults, respects .gitignore fzf # fuzzy picker, drives interactive selection in shell helpers jq # JSON query/transform; parsing API and tool output bat # syntax-highlighted cat with line numbers git # version control curl # HTTP client tmux # terminal multiplexer, session persistence for long agent runs htop # process viewer ncdu2 # ncdu — disk usage explorer lazygit # git TUI, fast staging and history browsing nodejs # runtime for Claude Code and JS tooling npm # node package manager python3 # scripting, ad-hoc data work py3-pip # python package installer go # go toolchain docker-cli # container client podman # rootless container engine ## TIER: high — biggest payoff, install first github-cli # gh — PRs, issues, CI logs, releases without leaving the shell yq-go # yq — jq for YAML; needed for compose, k8s, CI manifests ast-grep # sg — structural/AST code search; catches multi-line patterns grep cannot shellcheck # shell script linter; important here because login shell is mksh shfmt # shell formatter, POSIX/mksh aware sd # find-and-replace with sane regex, no sed escaping traps ## TIER: medium — strong quality-of-life, install when convenient difftastic # difft — structural diff, shows semantic change not line noise delta # syntax-highlighted git pager, side-by-side diffs watchexec # rerun a command on file change entr # smaller file-watcher, good in pipelines just # command runner; gives each repo a discoverable task list direnv # per-directory environment variables uv # fast Python env and dependency manager, replaces pip+venv sqlite # local database, ad-hoc querying of exported data ## TIER: nice — comfort and inspection eza # modern ls with tree view and git status btop # richer resource monitor than htop hyperfine # statistically sound command benchmarking tokei # source lines of code by language jless # interactive JSON viewer for large payloads tealdeer # tldr — practical command examples tree # directory tree (standalone; busybox applet is limited)