Automated WinGet deployment script to provision a clean Windows 11 baseline environment.

FIRST.md

Save this script as windows-provisioning.ps1 and run it from an elevated (Administrator) PowerShell terminal. Simply adjust the boolean toggles at the top of the file to deploy the exact environment you need before executing.

# ==============================================================================
# Windows 11 Automated Provisioning Script
# Profiles: Baseline / Java Backend Workstation / Gaming PC
# ==============================================================================

# --- Configuration Toggles ---
$InstallDevTools    = $true
$InstallGamingTools = $false

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force

Write-Host "Updating WinGet sources..."
winget source update | Out-Null

# 1. Baseline Apps (Always Installed)
$Apps = @(
    "Brave.Brave", "Mozilla.Firefox", "Mozilla.Thunderbird",
    "Microsoft.WindowsTerminal", "Git.Git", "PuTTY.PuTTY",
    "Microsoft.PowerToys", "Microsoft.SysinternalsSuite", "CPUID.HWMonitor",
    "7zip.7zip", "AntibodySoftware.WizTree", "CodeSector.TeraCopy",
    "RevoUninstaller.RevoUninstaller", "KrzysztofKowalczyk.SumatraPDF", "AcroSoftware.CutePDFWriter",
    "Spotify.Spotify", "VideoLAN.VLC"
)

# 2. Gaming Overlay
if ($InstallGamingTools) {
    $Apps += @(
        "Valve.Steam", "Discord.Discord", "CXWorld.CapFrameX",
        "Guru3D.Afterburner", "Obsidian.Obsidian"
    )
}

# 3. Dev Overlay
if ($InstallDevTools) {
    $Apps += @(
        "WinSCP.WinSCP", "GitHub.cli", "HTTPie.HTTPie",
        "BurntSushi.ripgrep", "junegunn.fzf", "sharkdp.fd", "stedolan.jq", "MikeFarah.yq",
        "JetBrains.Toolbox", "JetBrains.IntelliJIDEA.Ultimate",
        "Apache.Maven", "EclipseAdoptium.Temurin.17.JDK", "EclipseAdoptium.Temurin.21.JDK",
        "OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS"
    )
}

# 4. Standard Installation Loop
foreach ($App in $Apps) {
    Write-Host "Installing: $App"
    winget install --id $App --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --silent
}

# 5. Specialized Installs & Configurations
if ($InstallDevTools) {
    # Pinned to last pre-login-gate build; remove --version to track latest
    Write-Host "Installing: Insomnia v2023.5.8"
    winget install --id Insomnia.Insomnia --version "2023.5.8" --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --silent

    # Claude Code and Codex CLI are npm-distributed; Node must be installed first.
    # Refresh PATH so npm is available in this session without a shell restart.
    Write-Host "Refreshing PATH for current session..."
    $env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "Machine") + ";" +
                [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "User")

    $NpmCmd = Get-Command npm -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    if ($NpmCmd) {
        Write-Host "Installing npm globals: @anthropic-ai/claude-code, @openai/codex"
        npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
        npm install -g @openai/codex
    } else {
        Write-Warning "npm not found in refreshed PATH. Open a new terminal and run:"
        Write-Warning "  npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code @openai/codex"
    }
}

Write-Host "Installing: VS Code (with shell context menu + file associations)"
winget install --id Microsoft.VisualStudioCode --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --silent `
    --override "/VERYSILENT /SP- /MERGETASKS=`"addcontextmenufiles,addcontextmenufolders,associatewithfiles,addtopath`""

# 6. WSL Provisioning (Dev Only)
if ($InstallDevTools) {
    Write-Host "Provisioning WSL..."
    if (Get-Command wsl -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
        wsl --update | Out-Null
    } else {
        Write-Warning "WSL not found. Enabling VirtualMachinePlatform — a REBOOT is required before WSL can be installed."
        Write-Warning "After rebooting, run: wsl --install --distribution Ubuntu"
        dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart | Out-Null
    }
}

Write-Host "Provisioning complete. Reboot to apply all PATH changes." -ForegroundColor Green