Back up and reproduce your setup

mind dump writes your current sources and installed items as one mind.toml. Melding that file on another machine, or on this one after a reset, recreates the same sources at the same commits with the same items installed.

mind dump --output my-setup.toml     # write it
mind meld ./my-setup-repo --yes      # reproduce it elsewhere (see below)

What it writes

The output is a super-source: a mind.toml whose [discover].sources lists each melded source. Each entry:

• pins the source to the commit it is at now (pin-ref), overriding any pin the source declares, so the reproduction gets exactly what you have.
• carries the meld-time settings: namespace, scan roots, and added roots.
• records which items are installed:
  • every item: install = true
  • none: install = false
  • some: install-items = ["skill:review", "agent:dev"]
  • for a source installed through profiles: profiles = [...] (and default-profile = false when default is off), plus install-items for anything you installed by name on top.

An item link source is written back as its URL, so a skill you installed from a pasted link reproduces too.

mind dump                          # to stdout
mind dump --output snapshot.toml   # to a file
mind dump --whole-sources          # install = true for every source

--whole-sources drops the per-item filtering and offers each source’s full catalog instead of the subset you installed. With no sources melded, dump writes a valid empty super-source.

Reproduce it

A meld takes a repo, so put the file at the root of a git repo as mind.toml:

mkdir my-setup && cd my-setup
mind dump --output mind.toml
git init -q && git add mind.toml && git commit -qm "agent setup"
mind meld . --yes

Push that repo somewhere private and any machine can reproduce the setup with mind meld <url> --yes. To keep teammates in step as the list changes, see Share a setup with your team; mind curate applies the changes on each machine.

Keep a backup current

Run dump again after changes and commit the result. The diff shows what was added, removed, or moved to a new commit since the last snapshot.