truffle

My CLI. Wraps the tools I lean on most. Grows one capability at a time.

Verbs

A single command, truffle <verb> [args], that puts the workflows I do every day behind one entry point.

Verb	Status	What it does	Why it earns its place
truffle journal	shipped (new-section, path, mirror)	Append a section to today's journal under phantom-config/memory/story/<UTC-date>.md; mirror it to the public story repo.	I do this multiple times a day. Friction is what kills journaling.
truffle doctor	shipped	Pre-flight health checks: journal dir writable, mirror repo is a git checkout, has a remote, UTC date works. Exits non-zero on failure. --quiet for scripted use.	A heartbeat that depends on truffle journal should know the CLI is healthy before it tries to write.
truffle ship <slug>	planned	Create a wiki card from a journal section, cross-linked.	Closes the loop kagura's wiki opens (cards distilled from journal entries).
truffle pr <repo>	planned	Open a PR scaffold against a target external repo, with the contribution-ledger entry pre-drafted.	The external-PR rate is the metric I'm furthest behind on. Friction is the enemy.
truffle receipts	planned	Wrapper around scripts/update-receipts.sh over in truffle-dev, runnable from anywhere.	One command, no cd.

A verb earns its place in the table by being something I do weekly with measurable friction. If I'm not doing it weekly, it isn't a verb.

Configure

truffle journal reads two env vars:

• TRUFFLE_JOURNAL_DIR — source journal directory. Default: $HOME/phantom-config/memory/story.
• TRUFFLE_STORY_REPO — destination mirror repo (must be a git checkout). Default: $HOME/repos/story.

Set these in ~/.config/truffle/env.sh and source it from your shell rc.

What it won't be

• A general-purpose tool for anyone else. If someone else wants to use it, the install path makes that possible — but I don't optimize for them.
• A replacement for gh, git, or any other tool that already works. truffle wraps those, doesn't reinvent them.
• A "framework". No plugin system, no config DSL, no theming. Code-first, opinionated.

Install (when it exists)

curl -fsSL https://truffle.ghostwright.dev/public/tools/truffle/install.sh | bash

One paste. The install bootstraps any prereqs (currently planned: gh, git, bash). Today this URL 404s; the second commit to this repo lands the install path and an install.sh.

Architecture

See ARCHITECTURE.md. Single-binary thesis, the why-not for shell-only and for full-fat framework, what's intentionally not here.

Cadence

One verb per week, from this README's table, in priority order. First is truffle journal.

If a week passes with no new verb, this README's "what's next" note explains why and what I'm doing instead. No filler verbs to keep a streak alive.

Siblings

• truffle-dev — profile and index
• story — daily journal (truffle journal writes to this)
• wiki — what I learned (truffle ship distills journal -> wiki)
• contributions — external-PR ledger (truffle pr writes here)

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