AGENT NOTEBOOK / ON DEMAND

An app name in. Homelab files out.

A small, practical use of agents: turn an app I want to host into a Compose file and an environment file that follow my homelab’s conventions.

Inside the workflowIllustrative example · interactive

From app name to homelab files

My conventions as a starting draft, ready for my review before deployment.

An app I want to host

App name

docker-compose.yml

1services:2  app:3    image: ${APP_IMAGE}4    restart: unless-stopped5    ports:6      - "${APP_PORT}:8080"7    environment:8      - TZ=${TZ}9    volumes:10      - ${DATA_PATH}:/data

.env

1# Immich · sample2APP_IMAGE=example/app:review-tag3APP_PORT=80884 5# Optional6TZ=Etc/UTC7DATA_PATH=/srv/example-app

Trace a value

My homelabServicesBackupsA quieter internetI review, then run.

Where my judgment comes in.

I review versions, access, storage and the app’s requirements before running anything. The agent saves repeated configuration work; I still own the system. The files above are simplified examples, not my actual homelab setup.