Engineering Loadout

A self-contained, offline-first toolkit for engineering work environments.

• Old Linux distros
• Limited or no internet access
• No sudo / no root
• Built from 30+ years of engineering workflow experience
• All built on AlmaLinux 8.10 (RHEL 8 clone), glibc 2.28
  • Compatible with RHEL 9.x and beyond

Drop the release tarball onto a locked-down workstation, run one command, and you have modern Linux tooling and sane configurations in your $HOME -- no installer, no admin, no internet.

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Installation

Linux

Download the .tar.gz release archive from the latest release, then extract and run -- nothing is built or compiled, the archive ships every binary, library, font, and config file ready to install:

tar xzf engineering-loadout-v*.tar.gz
cd engineering-loadout-v*/
./tools/fetch-stash                        # Neovim plugins -- see below
./loadout install @engineering-loadout

That installs the @engineering-loadout group -- a curated set of command-line tools, editors, fonts, and configuration files -- into ~/.local and ~/.config. Reload your shell with exec bash when it finishes.

The Neovim plugin stash is a second download

The plugin stash is a separate release asset, not part of the tarball -- it is ~328 MB of bz2'd git packfiles, so committing it would grow every clone permanently. ./tools/fetch-stash downloads and verifies it against the release.

If this machine cannot reach GitHub, download nvim-plugin-stash.tar.bz2 and sha256sums.txt from the release elsewhere (on Windows, tools/download-release.ps1), copy both over, and pair them by hand:

./tools/fetch-stash --from-file /path/to/nvim-plugin-stash.tar.bz2 \
              --sums     /path/to/sha256sums.txt

--sums is required: without it there is nothing to verify against, and a stash that fails its hash is deleted rather than left on disk. Do not copy the asset into place manually -- .content-manifest is a strict allowlist, so a hand-placed stash is refused, not silently trusted.

Skipping it is safe: Neovim still installs and starts, and the plugin step is skipped with a warning naming fetch-stash.

Re-run the same command against a newer release tarball to update. Unchanged files are skipped, so re-runs are quick.

Deploying to a compute farm or an air-gapped site? The steps above are the single-machine case. For a shared read-only tree, per-user config, the Neovim plugin stash, and getting everything across a network whose policy changes --- see the Deployment Runbook. Full install details are in Installation.

Picking what to install

Name packages or groups the same way dnf or apt works:

./loadout install @engineering-loadout                    # the curated set
./loadout install octave                                  # one package
./loadout install parity-plot                             # parity-plot CLI + local designer
./loadout install @gui-suite                              # a group
./loadout install @engineering-loadout --skip @fonts-all  # curated set minus fonts
./loadout list                                            # browse packages
./loadout list vim helix                                  # name matches either filter
./loadout list --tag editor                               # filter by tag
./loadout search vim                                      # substring search
./loadout info gvim                                       # details for one package
./loadout install octave --dry-run                        # preview only

Windows

.\loadout.cmd                  # bootstraps/uses bundled user-local PowerShell
pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\loadout.ps1
powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\loadout-pwsh-bootstrap.ps1  # explicit 5.1 bootstrap

No elevation required.

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What's Inside

Component	Description
Bash	Layered shell config, 100+ aliases, fzf / zoxide / eza / bat integration
Neovim	LSP, 326 offline Tree-sitter parsers, curated plugin set
Vim	Vim 9.2 with NERDTree, SimpylFold, and vim-liberty bundled
Tmux	Sessions that survive reboot (resurrect + continuum), Ctrl-\ prefix
Helix	Ready to run offline
Starship	Cross-shell prompt, Linux and Windows configs
PowerShell	Aliases, Unix coreutils wrappers, Starship + zoxide integration
WezTerm	Terminal emulator config
AutoHotKey	AHK v2 flat script; reads feature config from loadout_keys.toml at startup
EditorConfig	Consistent formatting across all editors
Command-line tools	100+ modern CLI utilities, ready offline -- see table below
Nerd Fonts	12 font families

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Design Goals

Offline-first. Plugins, parsers, fonts, and binaries are bundled. Nothing is fetched at install time. Ship it to an air-gapped workstation and it just works.

No root. Everything lands in $HOME (or --dest-dir). No package manager, no sudo, no IT ticket.

Shared-tree installs stay relocatable: bundled runtime/data assets live under ~/.local/share (or the staged prefix) and shell init exports the paths needed for discovery, including TERMINFO_DIRS for bundled st terminfo.

Multi-platform. RedHat 7 / 8 / 9, Suse, x86_64 / ARM / PowerPC, and Windows.

Layered configuration. Settings flow from lowest to highest precedence:

Global -> Corp -> Site -> Team -> Project -> User

Each layer overrides the previous without touching the upstream files. Personal tweaks, team conventions, and corporate defaults all coexist without forking anything. Pull a loadout update and your overrides still work.

Opinionated but escapable. Sensible defaults out of the box. Every preference is a LOADOUT_CFG_* variable you can override in your user layer:

# envs/bash/user/config.sh
export LOADOUT_CFG_PREFERRED_VI=vim        # use vim instead of nvim
export LOADOUT_CFG_ENABLE_STARSHIP=0       # use the built-in prompt
export LOADOUT_CFG_ATTACH_TO_TMUX=1        # auto-attach tmux on login
export LOADOUT_CFG_ENABLE_WEZTERM_SHELL_INTEGRATION=0   # disable wezterm OSC integration

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Smoke Testing

The whole suite has one entry point:

tests/run-all               # Tier 1 fast checks + Tier 2 integration installs
tests/run-all --fast        # Tier 1 only
tests/run-all --container   # adds the Tier 3 clean-container smoke (Docker)

Stock AlmaLinux 8 is the verification baseline for install behavior -- a developer machine accumulates packages that mask missing-dependency bugs.

For maximum Linux binary coverage, run the AlmaLinux 8.10 container smoke. It uses a clean base image, copies this checkout inside the container, installs @shared into a temp --dest-dir, and probes every installed executable with only the staged local/bin plus a basic system PATH. The container does not install Python for the harness; it uses ./loadout to bootstrap the bundled Python 3.14 first. The smoke reports deliberate host contracts as skips: cloc needs host Perl, meld needs EL8 /usr/bin/python3.6, and OpenGL GUI apps need host GLVND dispatchers such as libGL.so.1.

tests/prebuilt-binaries-almalinux8          # binary probe only
tests/prebuilt-binaries-almalinux8 --full   # + doctor, resolvers, unit tests,
                                            #   and both integration installs

For the shared-tree deployment model, run the split install smoke. It installs @shared into a temp non-home tree, installs @envs into a separate temp HOME with LOADOUT_CFG_SHARED_PREFIX=<shared>/local, then checks Bash startup, shared PATH, terminfo, WezTerm completions, and core tool startup. @envs installs Bash configuration only (plus its Starship recommendation); install other config bundles explicitly or use @envs-all when every shell and editor config is intentional. Env installs copy config files into ~/.config; old symlinked config subdirectories that point back into the repo are replaced with real directories so installs cannot mutate the checkout.

tests/install-split-shared-envs

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Bundled Packages

Each row is a package you can install by name with ./loadout install <name>. Groups (@engineering-loadout, @gui-suite, @core-cli, ...) bundle related packages so you can install many at once. Run ./loadout list to see every package and every group, or ./loadout list --groups to see just the groups. Add one or more positional filters to match package or group names case-insensitively; any matching filter includes a row. Descriptions are not searched, for example: ./loadout list vim helix or ./loadout list --groups editor cli.

The optional openssh package provides modern ssh-keygen for SSH commit/tag signing on EL8 and an explicit ssh10 client. It does not install bare ssh/scp/sftp, so normal SSH stays the host-integrated system client. FIDO security keys (-t ed25519-sk) and PKCS#11 tokens are not supported by the bundled binaries (their libexec helpers are not shipped) -- use the system OpenSSH for those.

Package	Kind	Version	Description
agent-deck	bin	1.11.0	TUI dashboard for AI agent orchestration
amux	bin	0.0.20	TUI for orchestrating parallel coding agents via git worktrees + tmux
bash	bin	5.3.15	Portable GNU Bash ahead of EL8 system version
bash-docs	runtime	5.3.9	GNU Bash man page (bash.1) and info pages; extracted from bash 5.3 source
bat	bin	0.26.1	cat clone with syntax highlighting and line numbers
biome	bin	2.5.7	Fast Rust JSON/JS/TS/CSS formatter, linter, and LSP (static-pie musl build, no glibc dep)
broot	bin	1.58.0	Interactive tree navigator with fuzzy search
gtkwave	bin	3.3.116	GTKWave — VCD/FST/LXT2/VZT waveform viewer (GTK3) plus the headless format-converter suite (fst2vcd, vcd2fst, vcd2vzt, ...); Tcl scripting not compiled in
ipython	python-tool	9.16.1	Enhanced interactive Python REPL (tab completion, magics, history, introspection)
klayout	bin	0.30.10	KLayout — GDSII/OASIS/DXF/CIF/LEF-DEF mask layout viewer and editor with scriptable DRC/LVS (Qt5); embeds the loadout Ruby 3.3 and portable Python 3.14
verilator	bin	5.050	Verilator — Verilog/SystemVerilog to C++ simulator (lint, coverage, cycle-accurate regression models); needs host perl and the user’s own g++
yazi	bin	26.5.6	Blazing-fast terminal file manager (static-pie musl build, no glibc dep); ships the ya CLI companion
btm	bin	0.14.7	Cross-platform system resource monitor (TUI)
btop	bin	1.4.7	Resource monitor with graphs and mouse support
liberty-filter	bin	1.0.1	liberty-filter — strip unneeded data from Liberty (.lib) timing files; Rust CLI, system-libs only
lefdef-tools	python-tool	cda0e5a	lefdef-tools — fast LEF/DEF parsing and query tools (Rust backend)
liberty-tools	python-tool	v2026.06.01.1-35-g73af358	liberty-tools — Liberty .lib parser/query library (Rust backend) with liberty-format and liberty-view CLI tools
vcd-toggle-profiler	runtime	891a391	VCD toggle profiler — C++17 VCD signal toggle analysis with offline self-contained HTML reports
pdftotext	bin	26.04.0	pdftotext (poppler-utils) — extract plain text from PDF files; static libpoppler, bundles liblcms2+libopenjp2 and poppler-data (CJK CMaps) with a relocatable wrapper
p7zip	bin	16.02	p7zip — Unix port of 7-Zip; 7za standalone binary (LZMA2, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar, cab, etc.)
bzip2	bin	1.0.8	Block-sorting file compressor
choose	bin	1.3.7	awk/cut alternative for column field selection
clang	bin	23.0git	LLVM/Clang 23 compiler toolchain (clang, lld, clangd, clang-format, clang-tidy, llvm-ar/nm/objcopy/objdump/symbolizer/cov/profdata/link)
cloc	bin	2.10	Count Lines of Code by language (blank/comment/code). Self-contained Perl script; requires host perl
scc	bin	3.7.0	Sloc, Cloc and Code — fast code counter with complexity estimates (GitHub's counter). Go static binary, no deps
tokei	bin	14.0.0	Fast code counter by language. Rust; EL8 source build (v14 ships no prebuilt), links system libs only, glibc 2.28
dasel	bin	3.11.2	Query and modify YAML/JSON/TOML/XML/CSV data
delta	bin	0.19.2	Git diff pager with syntax highlighting
duf	bin	0.9.1	df replacement with colored usage table
dust	bin	1.2.4	du replacement with visual bar chart
flameshot	bin	14.0.0	Flameshot — powerful GUI screenshot tool. flameshot 13.3.0 back-ported to Qt5 for EL8 (upstream is Qt6-only); needs gui_libs (Qt5/X11) + DISPLAY
expect	bin	5.45.4	Tcl-based tool for automating interactive CLI programs
eza	bin	0.23.5	ls replacement with icons, colors, git status
fd	bin	10.4.2	Fast and user-friendly find alternative
fio	bin	3.42	Flexible I/O tester — storage and filesystem performance benchmark
fzf	bin	0.74.2	General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder
gnuplot	bin	6.0.5	Command-line graphing and plotting utility
glow	bin	2.1.2	Terminal markdown renderer/pager with styles
gocheat	bin	0.1.1	Interactive terminal cheatsheet browser (EL8 source build, CGO_ENABLED=0 static)
keyb	bin	0.8.0	Customizable TUI cheatsheet for keybindings/aliases; fuzzy filter, fzf/rofi export
gping	bin	1.20.4	Ping with live graph visualization
htop	bin	3.5.2	Interactive process viewer and manager
hx	bin	25.07-984-g079a789e	Modern modal text editor with tree-sitter and LSP
hyperfine	bin	1.20.0	Command-line benchmarking tool
ncdu	bin	2.9.2	NCurses disk usage — interactive disk space analyzer (Zig v2)
openssh	bin	10.4p1	OpenSSH 10.4p1 signer tools plus explicit ssh10 client (ssh10/ssh10.bin/ssh-keygen/ssh-add/ssh-agent/ssh-keyscan), EL8 source build linking system libcrypto/zlib; provides ssh-keygen -Y sign for git commit/tag signing that stock EL8 8.0p1 lacks. Optional — opt in with ./loadout install openssh; does not install bare ssh/scp/sftp, so normal ssh stays host-integrated.
jq	bin	1.8.2	Lightweight JSON processor and formatter
just	bin	1.58.0	Command runner, ergonomic Makefile alternative
lazygit	bin	0.64.0	TUI git client for staging, committing, rebasing
less	bin	704	less pager — the standard terminal file viewer; EL8 ships less 530 from 2017, so this bundles the current upstream release (POSIX regex backend, no gui_libs coupling)
llvm-bolt	bin	23.0git	LLVM BOLT binary optimizer + perf2bolt profile converter + merge-fdata
micro	bin	2.0.15	Beginner-friendly terminal text editor
miller	bin	6.21.0	CSV/TSV/JSON/NDJSON data processor (mlr)
ninja	bin	1.13.2	Fast build system used by CMake and LLVM
numr	bin	0.8.0	Text calculator for natural-language expressions with a vim-style TUI (units, currency, variables)
fresh	bin	0.3.8	Fresh text editor (Rust, tree-sitter, TypeScript/JavaScript config)
nvim	bin	0.12.4	Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
patchelf	bin	0.12	Modify ELF RPATH and interpreter in-place
pigz	bin	2.8	Parallel implementation of gzip
procs	bin	0.14.12	ps replacement with colors and process tree
pv	bin	1.6.6	Monitor and show progress of data through a pipe
rg	bin	15.2.0	Extremely fast grep alternative (ripgrep)
restic	bin	0.19.1	Fast, secure, user-space backup to a local repo -- content-defined deduplication, zstd compression, incremental snapshots, authenticated encryption. Single static binary, no root.
rsync	bin	3.4.4	Efficient file sync with delta-transfer algorithm
ruby	bin	3.3.10	Ruby 3.3 interpreter from the AlmaLinux 8 ruby:3.3 module stream — stdlib, default gems and rubygems, relocated via a RUBYLIB-deriving launcher
ruff	bin	0.16.2	Extremely fast Python linter and formatter
sd	bin	1.1.0	sed alternative with simpler regex syntax
shfmt	bin	3.13.1	Shell script formatter and parser
shellcheck	bin	0.11.0	Static analysis linter for shell scripts
starship	bin	1.26.0	Cross-shell customizable minimal prompt
stylua	bin	2.5.2	Opinionated Lua code formatter
tkdiff	bin	6.0	Tcl/Tk visual diff and merge tool
tldr	bin	1.8.1	Simplified community man pages (tealdeer)
tmux	bin	3.7b	Terminal multiplexer with session management
tree-sitter	bin	0.26.12	Incremental parser generator and query tool
ty	bin	0.0.69	Fast Python type checker (Astral)
gnu-coreutils	bin	9.7	GNU coreutils — individual binaries (ls, cp, mv, etc.) built from source on EL8
uv	bin	0.12.3	Extremely fast Python package and project manager
vim	bin	9.2.0901	Vi IMproved text editor
gvim	bin	9.2.0901	GTK3 GUI Vim with clipboard and font rendering
nedit-ng	bin	2025.1	Qt5 GUI text editor, NEdit rewrite
surfer	bin	0.7.0	Surfer — waveform viewer (VCD/FST/GHW) for digital hardware debugging; egui/OpenGL GUI. Opt-in: install with ./loadout install surfer
nvim-qt	bin	0.2.19	Official Qt5 GUI frontend for Neovim (menus, tabs, mouse, floating windows; no GPU required)
mesa3d_libs	runtime	23.1.4	Mesa 3D userspace runtime — Mesa EGL vendor library, GBM, libglapi, DRI drivers, and LLVM runtime (no GLVND dispatcher libs)
gui_libs	lib-bundle		Qt5/GTK3/X11/Wayland shared library bundle (for headless compute farm GUI forwarding)
xsel	bin	1.2.1	X11 clipboard command-line access tool
yara	bin	4.5.8	Malware pattern matching and classification tool
xterm	bin	410	X11 terminal emulator with Unicode and color
urxvt	bin	9.31	rxvt-unicode — X11 terminal with Unicode, Xft, and daemon mode (perl extensions disabled)
wezterm	bin	20260618_095146_c10636f3	WezTerm terminal emulator — shanghai bundle from system install; sample app for bundled Mesa 3D runtime
st	bin	0.9.3	suckless st — minimal X11 terminal with undercurl patch (UNDERCURL_CURLY)
xephyr	bin	1.20.11-28.el8_10.3	Xephyr — nested X server, plus the xdesk launcher: run any window manager or desktop session in a window inside the session you already have (no root, no display-manager change, no listening port)
yank	bin	1.4.0	Select terminal output and copy to clipboard
yq	bin	4.53.3	YAML/JSON/XML/CSV processor (jq for YAML)
zellij	bin	0.44.3	Terminal workspace multiplexer (no-web build; WASM plugins disabled)
zoxide	bin	0.10.0	Smarter cd with frecency ranking (z/zi)
octave	bin	11.3.0	GNU scientific computing language (MATLAB-compatible)
ngspice	bin	46	ngspice — open-source mixed-level SPICE circuit simulator (XSPICE + CIDER enabled, no-X11 headless build); relocatable wrapper loads spinit + codemodels from the install prefix
spice-subckt-rc-reduce	bin	0.1.1	Reduce parasitic RC networks in SPICE .subckt models (TICER / merge), preserving port behavior to cut simulation time
visidata	python-tool	3.4	TUI spreadsheet for CSV/TSV/JSON data
meld	bin	3.20.4	GTK3 visual diff and merge tool (shanghai bundle — system py3.6 + bundled PyGObject/GtkSource)
mate-terminal	bin	1.26.1	MATE Terminal — GTK3 tabbed VTE terminal (shanghai bundle from EL8 EPEL; GSettings keyfile backend, no dconf-service needed)
firefox	bin	140.11.0	Mozilla Firefox ESR (shanghai bundle from EL8 BaseOS; thin POSIX-sh launcher exec's bundled firefox-bin)
zsh	bin	5.9	Z shell — powerful interactive shell with advanced tab completion; dynamically-loaded modules (regex, pcre, mathfunc, stat, mapfile, parameter, complist, zprof, zpty, socket, tcp, zftp, system, cap, clone, datetime, langinfo, terminfo, zutil, files, watch, attr, nearcolor, zselect) shipped via runtime archive
fish	bin	4.8.1	Fish shell — friendly interactive shell with autosuggestions and syntax highlighting
tcl	bin	9.0.3	Tcl scripting language — tclsh interpreter and runtime library
tk	bin	9.0.3	Tk GUI toolkit — wish interpreter and embedded Tk runtime
nodejs	bin	26.7.0	Node.js LTS JavaScript runtime with npm/npx/corepack (for LSP servers, JS tooling)
jupyterlab	python-tool	4.6.1	Web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data
time-plot	python-tool	7e9859e	Plot arbitrary data vs. zero-based time with plugins for custom data file parsers
text-serdes	python-tool	361bbf0	text-serdes — short-lived encrypted text transport for copy/paste workflows (enc/dec)
cicwave	python-tool	0.5.2	cicwave — PyQtGraph waveform viewer (ngspice/Xyce/VCD/CSV). loadout PyQt6 fork of the upstream PySide6 app (PySide6 has no EL8 glibc-2.28 + Python 3.14 wheel). Opt-in: ./loadout install cicwave
parity-plot	python-tool	v0.7.0	45-degree Plotly parity plots with an offline NiceGUI designer; generated HTML embeds Plotly for air-gapped viewing
pygwalker	python-tool	0.5.0.1	Turn pandas DataFrames into an interactive Tableau-style data explorer (Jupyter or pygwalker serve)
portable-python	python-base	3.14.4	BOLT-optimized portable CPython build with bundled install.sh
gobject-typelibs	typelib		GObject introspection typelibs (GLib/Gtk3/GtkSource3/Pango/Atk/cairo)
tldr-data	data		Bundled tldr-pages cache for offline tealdeer use
treesitter-parsers	data		Pre-built tree-sitter parsers (.so), queries, parser-info, registry, and build-info for 300+ languages
git-nvim	runtime	2.43.7	PRIVATE git for nvim/lazy only -- installed to lib/loadout-git/, never on the user's PATH (a loadout git would shadow the corp git and break its subcommands/credential helpers, cf. openssh/ssh10). Optional: @shared-all or by name. nvim uses it only when the system has no git.
nvim-plugin-stash	data		Offline git stash for nvim plugins -- 24 bare mirrors + lazy.nvim, read-only, shared. lazy clones from it into the user's lazy/ and :Lazy update fetches from it, so plugin updates work with no network. Needs git (system, or the optional git-nvim package).
models	bin	0.14.0	TUI/CLI to browse AI models + benchmarks from models.dev (needs network for live data)
modules	runtime	5.6.1	Environment Modules — module load/unload for shell environment management (HPC-style)
rust	runtime	1.96.0	Rust toolchain — rustc + cargo + std libraries (offline source build target)
rust-crate-store	data		Offline Cargo local-registry (top crates.io crates + full dependency closure)
espresso	bin	1.1.1	Berkeley espresso two-level logic minimizer -- reduce a boolean function (PLA truth table) to a minimal sum-of-products
rust-analyzer	bin	410	Rust language server (LSP) — diagnostics, go-to-def, completions
gopls	bin	0.23.0	Go language server (LSP) — diagnostics, go-to-def, completions
yosys	bin	0.68	Yosys — open-source RTL synthesis (Verilog/SystemVerilog → netlist; write_json/write_verilog/write_blif, ABC mapping bundled as yosys-abc). Complements the bundled simulators: iverilog simulates, verilator lints and generates C++ models, yosys synthesises
iverilog	bin	13.0	Icarus Verilog — Verilog/SystemVerilog event simulator (iverilog compiler driver, vvp runtime, iverilog-vpi VPI module builder). Compiles to a .vvp file that runs directly; writes VCD for gtkwave/surfer. Unlike verilator this simulates rather than generating a C++ model, so it needs no host g++ to run a design
openroad	bin	26Q3	OpenROAD — RTL-to-GDS place & route: floorplanning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, global/detailed routing and parasitic extraction, driven from Tcl or Python. Ships sta (standalone OpenSTA timing) alongside. Completes the open flow already here: yosys synthesises → openroad places & routes → klayout views the layout
lua-language-server	bin	3.19.0	Lua language server (LSP) — useful for nvim config and Lua tooling
markdown-oxide	bin	0.25.12	PKM markdown language server — wikilinks, backlinks, daily notes and unresolved-link creation over a plain directory of markdown. Obsidian-vault compatible (reads a .obsidian root), so it indexes a vault a user maintains with Obsidian installed separately; Obsidian itself is not redistributable and is not bundled. Drives envs/nvim/lsp/markdown_oxide.lua.
pyright	python-tool	1.1.411	Python language server (LSP) — type-checking, go-to-def, completions
taplo	bin	0.10.0	TOML toolkit — linter, formatter and language server in one binary. Ships an offline JSON Schema catalog (49 SchemaStore schemas: Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, ruff, uv, rustfmt, starship …) so taplo lint validates keys on an air-gapped node instead of silently degrading to grammar-only. Drives envs/nvim/lsp/taplo.lua and envs/helix/languages.toml
tmux-path-store	python-tool	1.1.0	Tmux window-name-keyed directory/file path store — shell aliases for per-window path bookmarks

Parity plots

./loadout install parity-plot installs the CLI and its local designer, with no Python packages fetched at install time. parity-plot plot measurements.csv --no-open-browser --output parity.html creates a self-contained HTML report: the Plotly runtime is embedded so it renders on an air-gapped machine. PNG, SVG, and PDF export still need a compatible Chrome/Chromium already on the host for Kaleido; loadout deliberately does not download or bundle a browser.

If your machine doesn't already have GTK3 / Qt5 / X11 / Wayland libraries installed (common on remote compute nodes), install gui_libs alongside any GUI application:

./loadout install gvim nedit-ng gui_libs
# Or use the group, which pulls gui_libs for you:
./loadout install @gui-suite

GPU-accelerated apps such as WezTerm also pull mesa3d_libs, which installs Mesa's EGL vendor library, GBM, DRI drivers, and LLVM runtime without bundling host display-driver dispatchers like libGL.so.1. The WezTerm bundle keeps wezterm, wezterm-gui, and wezterm-mux-server as sibling real binaries under ~/.local/lib/wezterm/, with PATH wrappers in ~/.local/bin. Its zsh completion is installed by env-zsh; bash completion can be generated with wezterm shell-completion --shell bash. WezTerm shell integration (semantic zones / OSC 7 cwd / user vars -- distinct from completion) is vendored at envs/bash/global/wezterm/wezterm.sh and sourced by the bash config from user-writable space (never /etc), so wezterm users get it with or without tmux; toggle with LOADOUT_CFG_ENABLE_WEZTERM_SHELL_INTEGRATION. Outside a real WezTerm session, bash still sources the vendored script for its bash-preexec driver but disables all WezTerm OSC hooks, so other terminals do not print raw escape sequences or stall in wezterm set-working-directory.

Python

Python 3.14.4 -- a portable Python build that installs to ~/.local. Use python3.14 and pip3.14 to pin this build.

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Neovim -- 326 Offline Tree-sitter Parsers

The full nvim-treesitter parser registry is bundled and installs offline to ~/.local/share/nvim/tree-sitter-parsers/. All 326 languages work out of the box, no internet required.

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Nerd Fonts

Twelve font families bundled and installed to ~/.local/share/fonts:

Font	Notes
Cascadia Code	Microsoft coding font
DejaVu Sans Mono	Broad Unicode coverage
Envy Code R	Clean, distinctive coding font
Fira Code	Ligature-rich monospace
Hack	Designed for source code
Inconsolata	Humanist monospace
Iosevka Term	Ultra-narrow, highly legible
JetBrains Mono	Designed for long coding sessions
Meslo LG	Powerlevel10k default family
Roboto Mono	Google monospace family
Source Code Pro	Adobe's open-source workhorse
Ubuntu Mono	Ubuntu monospace family

Use ./loadout install ... --skip @fonts-all to skip every font, or --skip font-firacode to skip a single family. By default, an existing ~/.local/share/fonts directory is moved aside to fonts.bak* before the vendored fonts are extracted. With --no-backup, the installer reuses the existing fonts directory in place and overwrites only matching font files. Font extraction uses the same progress bar style as other bulk install phases.

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Bash Configuration

Six-layer override chain (global -> corp -> site -> team -> project -> user), LOADOUT_CFG_* knobs, and a curated alias set:

• b / bb / bbb ... -- cd .. up 1, 2, 3 levels
• cdd / cddd ... -- cd to the N-th most recently modified directory
• g -- ripgrep with sensible defaults (smart case, hidden, no-ignore)
• f -- fd with sensible defaults, falls back to find
• gs / gc / gp / gd / ga -- git status / commit / push / diff / add
• vi / vim -- your preferred editor (nvim by default)
• cat -- bat with no paging
• ll / la / lh -- ls variants (sizes, all files, human-readable)

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Tmux

Prefix Ctrl-\. Shift-arrows for pane navigation, Ctrl-arrows for windows, Prefix+1-5 for layout presets, Prefix+v to capture the pane buffer into nvim. tmux-resurrect and tmux-continuum bundled -- your sessions come back after a reboot.