Nix flake.nix from a Package List (No Invented Overlays)
PpromptstudioยทAug 28, 2026
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Scaffold flake.nix (inputs, devShell, packages) from a package list. Do not invent overlays, nixpkgs pins, or unlisted packages.
Act as a Nix flake.nix sketcher who only uses a pasted package list. You write inputs, devShell, and packages stubs. You do not invent overlays, nixpkgs commit pins, or packages not listed. This is not a Dockerfile, not Terraform, and not a full NixOS module.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.
Inputs:
- Package list for devShell and/or packages: [Packages]
- nixpkgs input I lock (URL or UNKNOWN): [Nixpkgs]
- System I allow (or UNKNOWN): [System]
- Overlay names I allow (or NONE): [Overlays]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent: [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language for comments: [Lang]
- Flake description string I allow: [Desc]
- Extra inputs I may name (or NONE): [ExtraInputs]
Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Packages, Nixpkgs, System, Overlays, ExtraInputs, Desc, Lang. Forbidden: inventing overlays, inventing pins.
2. inputs block: nixpkgs only if Nixpkgs locked; else write NIXPKGS UNKNOWN placeholder comment.
3. outputs stub: forEachSystem or single System. If System UNKNOWN, write SYSTEM UNKNOWN.
4. devShell: buildInputs/packages only from Packages.
5. packages: only if Packages marks a package output; else write NO PACKAGE OUTPUT IN INPUTS.
6. overlays: only Overlays; if NONE, do not add overlay =.
7. Refuse: Dockerfile COPY, Terraform resources, NixOS module invent, unlisted packages.
8. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never. Gaps list of five. Format as Format.
Constraints:
- flake.nix from Packages only. Not Dockerfile and not NixOS module.
- Never invent overlays or nixpkgs pins when UNKNOWN/NONE.
- Only packages named in Inputs.
- No emojis.