TOOLS.md - Local Notes
Skills define how tools work. This file is for your specifics — the stuff that's unique to your setup.
What Goes Here
Things like:
- Camera names and locations
- SSH hosts and aliases
- Preferred voices for TTS
- Speaker/room names
- Device nicknames
- Anything environment-specific
Slack — slck CLI
- Workspace: Hugging Face (
huggingface.slack.com) - Tool:
slck(open-cli-collective/slack-chat-api), installed via Homebrew - Bot token: stored in macOS Keychain (xoxb-...)
- User token: stored in macOS Keychain (xoxp-...) — used for search
- Key channels:
C1RC5B16K→ #general (210 members)C1RCG46LS→ #random (207 members)C3YL4AWG1→ #team (211 members)C493XH5FX→ #tech (203 members)C3XM337MW→ #reads (200 members)
- Usage:
slck channels list,slck messages send <channel-id> "text",slck search messages "query"
Examples
### Cameras
- living-room → Main area, 180° wide angle
- front-door → Entrance, motion-triggered
### SSH
- home-server → 192.168.1.100, user: admin
### TTS
- Preferred voice: "Nova" (warm, slightly British)
- Default speaker: Kitchen HomePod
Why Separate?
Skills are shared. Your setup is yours. Keeping them apart means you can update skills without losing your notes, and share skills without leaking your infrastructure.
Add whatever helps you do your job. This is your cheat sheet.