PROFILES

Profiles

Profile-driven configuration — choose what gets installed on your machine.

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How profiles work

During chezmoi init, you select one or more profiles. Each profile maps to a set of package groups that control which tools are installed.

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Available profiles

Profile	Target audience	Installs
technical	Engineers	Git, Docker, dev tools, editors
non-technical	Non-engineering staff	Minimal tooling
ai	AI/ML practitioners	AI CLIs, skills, agents, MCP templates
node	Frontend / fullstack devs	Node.js, npm/pnpm, frontend tools
python	Python developers	Python, pip, virtualenv tools
data	Data engineers	dbt, SQL tools, data stack
infra	DevOps / infrastructure	Terraform, AWS CLI, k8s tools

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Profile composition

Profiles are additive — you can select multiple:

technical + ai + node → full frontend AI stack
technical + ai + data → full data AI stack

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Canonical mapping

The authoritative profile-to-package mapping lives in:

home/.chezmoidata/profiles.yaml

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Changing profiles

Re-run init to update your choices:

cd /path/to/agentic-workstation
chezmoi init --source=. -c ~/.config/chezmoi/agentic-workstation.toml
chezmoi apply --source=. -c ~/.config/chezmoi/agentic-workstation.toml

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Technical context: docs/README.md