🍺 ericmann/homebrew-tap

A personal Homebrew tap for Eric Mann's tools. Small, sharp, local-first.

What's on tap

Cask	What it pours
journal	A local-first developer journal — local semantic search over your notes, plus AI synthesis via cloud Claude or a fully local model, your choice.
float-mcp	A local stdio MCP server for Float time tracking — review and log your hours from Claude instead of the GUI. Your Float API token lives in the server config and never enters the model's context.

Install

brew install ericmann/tap/journal

That's shorthand for brew tap ericmann/tap && brew install journal. From then on, brew upgrade keeps it current.

One thing first: journal wants a local Ollama

journal does its embedding and search locally via Ollama — nothing leaves your machine:

brew install ollama
ollama pull qwen3-embedding:4b
journal doctor          # tells you if anything's missing

Synthesis (journal synth) is optional and runs two ways: cloud Claude (Sonnet by default — set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) or a fully local Ollama model (synth_provider: ollama — no key, zero egress). The full story lives in the journal docs.

float-mcp

A local stdio MCP server that exposes Float time tracking — reviewing and logging time — as Model Context Protocol tools, so you can work your hours from Claude instead of the Float GUI.

brew install ericmann/tap/float-mcp

Then give it a Float API token and register it with your MCP client:

# Create a token in Float → Team Settings → Integrations (needs account-owner),
# then provide it via the FLOAT_API_TOKEN env var or ~/.config/float/config.json
float-mcp doctor                                          # verify your setup

claude mcp add float --env FLOAT_API_TOKEN=... -- float-mcp mcp

The token is held entirely in the server config — it never enters the model's context, and is never logged or returned in tool output.

House rules

• Casks here are built and published automatically by GoReleaser on each tagged release — please don't hand-edit Casks/*.rb; they'll be overwritten.
• macOS binaries are ad-hoc signed, not Apple-notarized. The cask strips the quarantine flag on install, so the first run isn't blocked by Gatekeeper.