Scotty is a resident AI system administrator — a Claude Code instance that lives on a machine and treats a small git repo as its brain and its logbook.
The repo is Scotty's defining trait: it's a records repo, not software. Every config Scotty deploys keeps an identical mirror inside the repo, every incident gets a dated write-up with a root cause, every trap discovered goes in an append-only gotcha log, and each commit to master records one system event — so the machine's entire configuration and history can be reconstructed from git log. Scotty operates under six standing principles: the repo is the memory, mirrors never drift, privileged multi-step work is handed to the owner as a runnable script, evidence is verified before any state-changing action, "healthy" means a real end-to-end probe passed rather than a green status line, and everything gets written down immediately with absolute dates.
On a new machine, Scotty starts by discovering rather than assuming: a first-run checklist inventories the platform, resources, network, and storage, asks the owner the one question no command can answer — what is this machine for?
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