[ZSH] Speed up shell startup

Move antidote update from every shell start to update_mac.sh: it dropped
the bundle cache each time, forcing a rebuild on the next start. Background
the locale write and skip the brew --repository fork.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

AGENTS.md

@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ Practical rule: **edit the `.example` source, not the generated symlink target.*
 
 ## Maintenance
 
-- `./update_mac.sh` — macOS update runner. Default (no args) runs `--brew-update --cleanup --diagnostics --update-others`; other flags: `--system-update`, `--permission-fix` (strips Caskroom/App quarantine xattrs). Run `./update_mac.sh --help` for the list. `--update-others` also updates Alacritty from its verified upstream release, then runs `claude --update` and `Codex --update`.
+- `./update_mac.sh` — macOS update runner. Default (no args) runs `--brew-update --cleanup --diagnostics --update-others`; other flags: `--system-update`, `--permission-fix` (strips Caskroom/App quarantine xattrs). Run `./update_mac.sh --help` for the list. `--update-others` also updates Alacritty from its verified upstream release and antidote plugins (not updated at shell start), then runs `claude --update` and `Codex --update`.
 - `brew_autoupdate` — runs scheduled brew and Alacritty auto-updates.

update_mac.sh

@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ function update_others {
     echo "-- ALACRITTY"
     "$SCRIPT_DIR/install_alacritty_mac.sh" || echo "Alacritty update failed." >&2
 
+    if [ -f "$HOME/.antidote/antidote.zsh" ]; then
+        echo "-- ANTIDOTE"
+        zsh "$HOME/.antidote/antidote.zsh" update
+    fi
+
     if [ -x "$(command -v claude)" ]; then
         echo "-- CLAUDE"
         claude --update

zsh/.mac_config.zsh_mac.example

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
-defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleLocale en_DE
+# macOS resets this on updates (and at random); background it, it's slow
+defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleLocale en_DE &!
 
 # Set path to work with pycharm ...
 # [[ "$PATH" =~ /usr/local/bin ]] || export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ alias tailscale=/Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale
 #alias virt-manager="LD_PRELOAD=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.86.0/lib virt-manager"
 #alias virt-manager="LD_PRELOAD=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.86.0/lib $HOME/python-envs/virt-manager/bin/python3 $HOME/stuff/virt-manager/virt-manager"
 
-HOMEBREW_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND_HANDLER="$(brew --repository)/Library/Homebrew/command-not-found/handler.sh"
+HOMEBREW_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND_HANDLER="${HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY:-$(brew --repository)}/Library/Homebrew/command-not-found/handler.sh"
 if [ -f "$HOMEBREW_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND_HANDLER" ]; then
   source "$HOMEBREW_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND_HANDLER";
 fi

zsh/.zshrc

@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ source "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh/lib/prompt.zsh"
 
 alias screenshot_mode='powerlevel10k_plugin_unload; export PS1="$ "; python3 ~/.config/alacritty/screenshot_mode.py on'
 alias screenshot_mode_off='prompt_powerlevel9k_setup; python3 ~/.config/alacritty/screenshot_mode.py off'
-antidote update &>/dev/null &|
 
 [[ -d "$HOME/.lmstudio/bin" ]] && path+=("$HOME/.lmstudio/bin")
 [[ -d "$HOME/.runai/bin" ]] && path+=("$HOME/.runai/bin")