Nihil-Shell
A monochrome, dot‑matrix desktop for NixOS
What XERJ indexed
Snapshot
The whole repository at commit 65e79eba8d (2026-10-15). nihil is 32 commits ahead.
Selected work
“Wi-Fi menu (wofi) and signal-based waybar icon”. 3 files, 289 lines in home.
Licence
The repository
LICENSE file checked at the pinned commit; the author agreed to inclusion.
The XERJ corpus
The author agreed by email on 2026-10-23. Same terms as the repository. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.
selected for the XERJ Corpus Hublicence clearedsuggested use: adapt with attribution
dotfileshome-managerhyprlandlinuxnixosstylixquickshellunixporn
Example questions
- How does Nihil-Shell implement dotfiles?
- Where does Nihil-Shell handle “Wi-Fi menu (wofi) and signal-based waybar icon”?
- What does home do in Nihil-Shell?
Inside the indexed corpus
- Languages by size: QML 49.1%, Python 25.9%, Nix 21.7%, JavaScript 1.8%, Shell 1.5%.
- On GitHub since 2026-07-17, last push 2026-10-31, 105 commits on nihil.
- The pin is 32 commits behind nihil; the corpus answers from the pinned code, not the newest.
Licence on GitHub and in the corpus
GitHub reported MIT for poligle/Nihil-Shell on 2026-10-31, and the LICENSE file at commit 65e79eba8d was reviewed as MIT. They match, so answers from this corpus carry the same terms as the live repository.
Contributors
Pol Iglesias (@poligle) has 1 selected repository on the hub.
Using XERJ with Nihil-Shell
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The prompt
Paste it into your AI agent. It clones poligle/Nihil-Shell at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.
Search the GitHub repository poligle/Nihil-Shell with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/poligle--nihil-shell). Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next: 1. xerj --help (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh 2. git clone https://github.com/poligle/NixOS-Config NixOS-Config && git -C NixOS-Config checkout 65e79eba8df84a31560a0366edc3195c46f1e913 3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data 4. xerj autoindex ./NixOS-Config --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix nixos-config --progress plain 5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt Licence: MIT. Keep the copyright notice and credit the authors.
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Stats: GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-31. Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.