Initialize and manage a system

System presets provide selectable development-environment initialization steps for macOS, Ubuntu, and Windows, plus a small set of reversible managed system resources. They are not a general machine configuration or package-version manager. Use shine sys list from the installed version as the authoritative list of available items.

See built-in presets for each platform's profiles and for split-dns environment variables and safe preview steps.

Inspect before applying

shine sys list
shine sys list --all
shine sys info split-dns
shine sys bootstrap --dry-run

--dry-run shows selection results, provider/script invocations, and each persistent item-owned shell integration without changing the system. Some items require administrator access or additional environment variables; shine sys info <ITEM> lists those requirements.

When a missing item is about to run, Shine prints its sys/<ITEM> identifier and label first, so any authorization or password prompt that follows is attributable to the active software.

Select interactively or apply a profile

shine sys bootstrap
shine sys bootstrap mise
shine sys bootstrap rust mise
shine sys bootstrap --preset recommended
shine sys bootstrap --preset minimal
shine sys bootstrap --proxy --dry-run

• In an interactive terminal, shine sys bootstrap opens a multi-select interface.
• Positional item IDs bootstrap only those items, preserving their order and ignoring duplicates.
• --preset applies the named profile directly.
• Positional items and --preset cannot be combined. Managed resources use sys apply, not sys bootstrap.
• In a non-interactive environment without an explicit profile, Shine uses the configured default.

Ubuntu includes a minimal profile for production servers. It installs only Neovim, fzf, bat, eza, and zoxide, without shell-history synchronization, a prompt, the Node.js toolchain, or Homebrew. Always review the current steps with shine sys bootstrap --preset minimal --dry-run first.

Add --proxy when downloads require an HTTP proxy. Shine derives uppercase and lowercase proxy variables from PROXY_HOST, HTTP_PROXY_PORT, and PROXY_NO_PROXY in [env]; the default address is http://127.0.0.1:6152. Combine it with --dry-run to inspect the effective values.

Windows winget does not read these environment variables, so Shine also passes winget install --proxy. If that option is disabled, first run in an administrator PowerShell:

winget settings --enable ProxyCommandLineOptions

After initialization, inspect the recorded state:

shine sys status

This view is a run record: installed, already installed, or completed describes what the last bootstrap invocation observed. It does not probe whether third-party software is still present or current.

Upgrade bootstrap software with its owner

shine sys bootstrap is an ensure-present initializer, not a software update manager. Shine does not check or upgrade bootstrap software. Use the package manager or upstream tool that owns each item—such as Homebrew, apt, winget, mise, or rustup—to check for and install updates. Rerunning shine sys bootstrap only verifies that the selected software is present and does not upgrade it.

The built-in mise step follows the same boundary: it can install mise and add activation to managed shell profile content, but it does not create or update mise configuration and does not manage runtime versions. Use mise for mise.toml, tool installation, and version upgrades.

Manage shell integration state

A successful bootstrap enables only the selected items' declared shell integrations. It does not disable integrations enabled by an earlier run, and a named selection profile is not a desired-state replacement for software or shell configuration.

shine sys profile disable mise --dry-run
shine sys profile disable mise
shine sys profile enable mise

These commands modify only Shine-owned generated profile content. Disabling does not uninstall the software. Enabling first verifies the item's declared detection and asks you to bootstrap it when it is missing. shine upgrade re-renders the currently enabled integrations but does not upgrade their software.

shine update and shine upgrade still manage only Shine configuration and managed system resources. They never upgrade this third-party software.

Top-level shine list includes managed system configuration recorded for the current operating system. Use shine sys status and shine sys info <ITEM> for details. update --verbose and upgrade --verbose also show skipped, current, and attention-required managed resources.

Managed system items

Some system configuration is managed declaratively and can be reapplied or safely removed:

shine sys apply --dry-run
shine sys apply split-dns
shine sys uninstall split-dns --dry-run
shine sys uninstall split-dns

For routing private domains across remote LANs to ZeroTier DNS, see the Chinese Biulight guide 使用 ZeroTier、CoreDNS 和 Shine 搭建异地私有域名网络.

On Ubuntu, split-dns expects applications to query the 127.0.0.53 systemd-resolved stub. Shine warns or refuses to write ineffective configuration when the stub is disabled. Re-enable DNSStubListener, or confirm that local resolution really passes through systemd-resolved, before applying the item.

System profiles merge with and preserve user content where possible. Use shine sys bootstrap --force-profile only when you explicitly want to back up and replace a conflicting profile.

Platform notes

• Managed shell profiles target zsh on macOS.
• Ubuntu supports bash and zsh.
• Windows system presets and profile integration use PowerShell.
• Ubuntu and macOS can detect the terminal background and set SHINE_TERMINAL_THEME; set SHINE_SYNC_TERMINAL_THEME=0 to disable it.