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Features

• No login, no token: /dev/null checks each commit's signature against the SSH keys GitHub publishes for your account, so there is nothing to sign in to or paste.
• Works with your SSH agent: finds keys in macOS's own agent, 1Password and Secretive, and in ~/.ssh. It never reads a private key; your agent or ssh-keygen does the signing.
• Images: attach up to 3 JPEG, PNG or WebP images to a commit, by picking them or from the clipboard with ⌘ ⇧ V.
• Ask Raycast AI to post for you: "@dev-null post that I just launched my extension", with a screenshot attached to the message. You approve the text and images before anything is posted.
• Checked before it's sent: the counter and the length limit match /dev/null's own rules (a link in your text counts as at most 23 characters; one inside code counts in full), and images are checked for type, size and dimensions, so a commit /dev/null would refuse for any of those is never signed or sent.
• Profiles and search: look anyone up by username, browse their commits, replies, followers and following, or search everyone's commits. Go to My Profile and My Commits open your own.
• Start from a selection: turn on Selected Text and Create Commit opens with whatever you had selected.
• Drafts survive: close the form mid-thought and your draft and images are still there next time.
• A link to what you shipped: after a commit lands, the toast's Open Commit opens it on /dev/null. If the commit is held for review, the toast says so.

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Requirements

• Raycast on macOS
• A GitHub account, and a /dev/null account made by signing in at dev-null.sh with it
• An Ed25519 or RSA SSH key that is on your GitHub account

If you already push to GitHub over SSH, you probably have everything: sign in at dev-null.sh once and skip to Quick Start.

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First-Time Setup

/dev/null has no password. It knows a commit is yours because it is signed with an SSH key, the same kind of key developers use to push code to GitHub, and that key is on your GitHub account. Setup puts a key on your Mac, adds it to GitHub, and introduces you to /dev/null.

1. Find or make a key

If you use 1Password, it can make and hold the key for you. In 1Password, create a new SSH Key item (choose Ed25519), then turn on Settings → Developer → Use the SSH Agent. 1Password will ask you to approve each commit with Touch ID. Secretive works the same way.

Otherwise, open Terminal and check for an existing key:

ls ~/.ssh/*.pub

If that lists a file such as id_ed25519.pub, and ls ~/.ssh shows the same name without .pub beside it, you have a key. If it says no matches found, make one:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "you@example.com"

Press Return to accept the default location. A passphrase is optional. If you set one, load the key into macOS's SSH agent so Raycast can use it without asking (Raycast can't show a passphrase prompt):

ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

After a restart, run ssh-add --apple-load-keychain to load it again.

2. Add the public key to GitHub

Copy the public half of the key (the .pub file, never the other one):

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

With 1Password, open the SSH Key item and copy its public key instead.

Then on GitHub, go to Settings → SSH and GPG keys → New SSH key, paste it, and save. Either key type, Authentication or Signing, works.

3. Sign in at dev-null.sh

Sign in at dev-null.sh with GitHub. This creates your account, and it is also when /dev/null copies your keys from GitHub. If you add a key later, sign in again so /dev/null learns it.

If something goes wrong

Message	What to do
No Ed25519 or RSA SSH key found in your SSH agent or in ~/.ssh.	Make a key (step 1). With 1Password, check that its SSH agent is on.
None of your SSH keys are on the GitHub account of a /dev/null user.	Add the key to GitHub (step 2), then sign in at dev-null.sh again (step 3).
Could not sign your commit.	The rest of the message is what ssh-keygen reported. If it mentions a passphrase, the key isn't loaded: run the ssh-add command from step 1.

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Quick Start

1. Open Raycast and search for "Create Commit"
2. Write your commit. The counter in the bottom left (12 of 4,000) shows how much of the 4,000 characters you have used.
3. To add images, press ⌘ N (Attach Image…) and pick up to 3, or copy one and press ⌘ ⇧ V (Attach Image from Clipboard).
4. Press ⌘ ⏎ to sign and post it. If your SSH agent asks for Touch ID or an approval, give it.

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Usage

Commands

Command	Mode	Description
Create Commit	view	Write a commit, sign it with your SSH key, and post it to /dev/null
View Profile	view	Open someone's profile by username, or search for people
Go to My Profile	view	Your profile, commits, replies, followers and following
My Commits	view	The commits and replies you've posted
Search Commits	view	Search everyone's commits. The search runs when you pause typing, from 3 characters, since /dev/null allows 15 searches a minute.

AI Tools

Tool	Description
Post Commit	Posts a commit with up to 3 images, after you confirm the text and images. Mention @dev-null in Raycast AI, and attach images to your message or give their paths, such as ~/Desktop/launch.png.

Actions

Action	Shortcut	Description
Commit	⌘ ⏎	Sign the draft and post it
Attach Image…	⌘ N	Show the image picker
Remove Images	⌃ ⇧ X	Remove the images and hide the picker
Attach Image from Clipboard	⌘ ⇧ V	Attach the image on the clipboard: a copied image file, or image data such as a screenshot copied with ⌃ ⇧ ⌘ 4
Open Commit	⌘ O, or in the success toast	Open the commit you just posted. Appears once a commit has posted.

In a profile or a list of commits:

Action	Shortcut	Description
Open Commit / View Profile	⏎	Open the commit on /dev/null, or the person's profile
Copy Commit URL / Copy Profile URL	⌘ ⇧ C	Copy the link
Show	Dropdown	Switch between commits and replies
Hide Sidebar / Show Sidebar	⌘ ⇧ D	Hide or show the detail pane; remembered per command

Preferences

Preference	Values	Default
Username	text	empty: the account of your last commit
Selected Text (Create Commit)	checkbox	off
Debug Logging	checkbox	off
Strict Redaction	checkbox	off

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Development

Project Structure

raycast-dev-null/
├── src/
│   ├── create-commit.tsx   # The form: draft, images, counter, submit and toasts
│   ├── view-profile.tsx    # A profile by username, or a people search
│   ├── my-profile.tsx      # Your own profile
│   ├── my-commits.tsx      # Your commits and replies
│   ├── search-commits.tsx  # Search everyone's commits
│   ├── username.ts         # Remembers your username from your last commit
│   ├── components/         # Profile, commit and people views
│   ├── tools/
│   │   └── post-commit.ts  # The AI tool and its confirmation
│   └── lib/
│       ├── devnull.ts      # The /dev/null protocol: check, find a key, sign, post
│       ├── body.ts         # /dev/null's rules for the text, and its character count
│       ├── images.ts       # /dev/null's rules for images, and their sizes
│       └── api.ts          # Reading profiles, commits, followers and search
├── ai.yaml                 # AI instructions and evals
├── assets/                 # Extension icon (runtime)
├── media/                  # README images
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Scripts

Script	Description
npm run dev	Start in development mode with hot reload
npm run build	Build for production
npm run lint	Run Raycast ESLint config
npm test	Run the unit tests
npm run fix-lint	Auto-fix lint issues
npm run publish	Publish to the Raycast Store

Clone & Run

git clone https://github.com/chrismessina/raycast-dev-null.git
cd raycast-dev-null
npm install
npm run dev

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Tech Stack

Package	Role
@raycast/api	Raycast extension primitives
@raycast/utils	Higher-level Raycast utilities
@chrismessina/raycast-kit	Failure toasts with a Copy Error action
@chrismessina/raycast-logger	Debug logging with secrets redacted

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MIT © Chris Messina