Every model, skill, gate, and hook actually installed on this machine — read straight from ~/.claude, not from a wishlist. Two of the four layers are fully built. Two are empty.
Six stages from keystroke to answer. The two amber stages are the ones you have not built yet, which is why nothing currently stops a bad tool call or fires on completion.
Your default is set globally in ~/.claude/settings.json. Everything else is per-session or per-subagent.
Currently the machine-wide default. The [1m] suffix opts into the million-token window, which is why whole manuscripts and long audits fit in one pass.
claude-fable-5[1m]
Architecture, plans, and any judgement call that is expensive to get wrong. Slowest and priciest, so it earns its place on decisions rather than execution.
claude-opus-5
The workhorse. Once Opus has decided what to build, Sonnet builds it at a fraction of the cost.
claude-sonnet-5
Cheap, quick classification and lookups. Good for the mechanical passes inside a larger job.
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Your Windows box ran a multi-model MCP server exposing free Groq, Gemini, and Codestral endpoints for research-grade work. That server did not migrate.
The Opus-plans/Sonnet-executes split is a habit, not a rule. Nothing in config enforces it, so every session starts on the global default until you switch by hand.
Skills load on demand by description match, so an unused skill costs nothing until its trigger fires. This is the deepest layer of your stack by a wide margin.
Twenty-two of twenty-four skills serve client web work. Your books, the KDP build pipeline, and your actual day job in sales have zero skill coverage. The Windows machine had tampa-market-scan and nine Tampa delivery skills that did not come across.
Two helper scripts sit outside the skill system in ~/.claude/scripts/ — readability_stats.py and audit-jsonld.py. Neither is reachable from a skill, so they only run when invoked by hand.
MCP servers extend the tool surface past the built-ins. Four of yours are connected accounts that need authorising before their tools appear.
Full browser control: navigate, snapshot, screenshot, run scripts, trace performance, audit with Lighthouse. This is what read 21st.dev to build this page.
stdio · npx chrome-devtools-mcp@latest
Search, read, draft, send, label. The one connector already carrying your account.
claude.ai connector
Worth fixing first. If your manuscripts are backed up to Drive, this is the path that gets them onto this Mac without touching the Windows laptop.
Unauthorised. Scheduling and availability tooling stays dark until it is connected.
Your prospecting database. On Windows this fed the Tampa cold-call pipeline through a custom wrapper.
A Python MCP server exposing groq_chat, gemini_chat, and codestral_chat. Still on the old machine.
Hooks are shell commands the harness runs at fixed points in the lifecycle. They are how you get deterministic behaviour instead of asking the model to remember. Your settings.json holds two keys: theme and model.
Both project entries in ~/.claude.json carry allowedTools: []. Nothing is pre-approved, so routine reads prompt you every time, and nothing is denied either.
A PreToolUse hook plus a short allowlist removes most permission prompts and adds a real safety net, in one edit. The /fewer-permission-prompts command can generate the allowlist from your own transcript history.
Your Windows backup carried Groq, Apollo, FAL, and HeyGen keys in plaintext inside memory files, and they
are now sitting in ~/.claude/projects/ on this Mac. Rotate all four at the provider.
The single highest-leverage change. Turns an unguarded stack into a gated one and cuts prompt fatigue at
the same time. Start with /fewer-permission-prompts.
The likely route to recovering six manuscripts without going back to the Windows laptop. Everything in the book catalogue is currently memory-only: Claude knows the titles, word counts, and build decisions, but not one manuscript file is on this machine.
Typst 0.15 and Pandoc 3.9 drove the book build system on Windows. Neither is installed here.
brew install typst pandoc restores it.
tampa-market-scan and nine Tampa delivery skills exist on the old machine. They are the only
skills that serve your actual job, and none of them made the move.