diff --git a/users/sterni/acme/plumb/default.nix b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/default.nix
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+{ pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+pkgs.stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
+  name = "sterni-plumb";
+
+  src = builtins.path {
+    path = ./.;
+    filter = path: _: !(lib.hasSuffix "default.nix" path);
+  };
+
+  dontConfigure = true;
+  dontBuild = true;
+
+  # The write will fail if there's something wrong with the rules,
+  # though it only detects some problems.
+  checkPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    export NAMESPACE="$(mktemp -d)"
+    9 plumber -f &
+    pid="$!"
+    until [[ -e "$NAMESPACE/plumb" ]]; do
+      sleep 0.1
+    done
+    9 9p write plumb/rules < sterni.plumbing
+    kill "$pid"
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkInputs = [
+    pkgs.plan9port
+  ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    mkdir -p "$out"
+    mv * "$out/"
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+}
diff --git a/users/sterni/acme/plumb/man b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/man
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+# Man pages (taken from /plumb/basic), e.g. man(1)
+type is text
+data matches '([a-zA-Z¡-0-9_\-./]+)\(([1-8])\)'
+plumb start rc -c 'man '$2' '$1' >[2=1] | nobs | plumb -i -d edit -a ''action=showdata filename=/man/'$1'('$2')'''
diff --git a/users/sterni/acme/plumb/sterni.plumbing b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/sterni.plumbing
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index 000000000..42af1d5c8
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+++ b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/sterni.plumbing
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+# TODO(sterni): are rules for :linenumber etc. needed or acme default?
+# TODO(sterni): file: urls
+# TODO(sterni): xdg-open for mail addresses, images, pdfs etc.
+# TODO(sterni): git
+
+editor = acme
+include man
+
+depot = /home/lukas/src/depot
+include tvl
+
+include urls
diff --git a/users/sterni/acme/plumb/tvl b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/tvl
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index 000000000..0679917e7
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+++ b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/tvl
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+# TODO(sterni): document TVL short links,
+# for now see //tools/cheddar, //web/atward, //tools/magrathea
+# and //ops/modules/monorepo-gerrit.
+# TODO(sterni): r/([0-9]+)
+
+# TVL short links that go to the browser, e.g. cl/8413, b/187
+
+type is text
+data matches 'cl/([0-9]+)'
+data set https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/$1
+plumb to web
+plumb start web $data
+
+type is text
+data matches 'b/([0-9]+)'
+data set https://b.tvl.fyi/issues/$1
+plumb to web
+plumb start web $data
+
+# TVL target short links
+
+# TODO(sterni): implement subtargets
+# TODO(sterni): can we add an acme address to target paths somehow?
+
+# TODO(sterni): look at //tools/magrathea's parsing.
+depotpathchar = '[^:.,!"'' ]'
+depotpath = '//('$depotpathchar'+)'
+
+# TVL short links to files in depot, open in local editor, e.g.
+#
+# - //users/sterni/acme/plumb/tvl,
+# - //default.nix,
+# - //nix/readTree/README.md,
+# - //tools/magrathea/mg.scm
+#
+# We impose the same restrictions for the initial path,
+# but are liberal in the file name
+
+type is text
+data matches '//('$depotchar'+/)?([^ ]*'$depotpathchar')'
+arg isfile $depot/$1$2
+data set $file
+plumb to edit
+plumb client $editor
+
+# TVL short links to directories in depot, mapped to default.nix, e.g. //nix/readTree
+
+type is text
+data matches $depotpath
+arg isfile $depot/$1/default.nix
+data set $file
+plumb to edit
+plumb client $editor
+
+# TVL short links to targets that aren't expressed by default.nix, e.g. //third_party/lisp/alexandria
+
+type is text
+data matches $depotpath
+arg isfile $depot/$1.nix
+data set $file
+plumb to edit
+plumb client $editor
+
+# TVL short links to directories in depot (without default.nix), e.g. //ops/machines
+
+type is text
+data matches $depotpath
+arg isdir $depot/$1
+data set $dir
+plumb to edit
+plumb client $editor
diff --git a/users/sterni/acme/plumb/urls b/users/sterni/acme/plumb/urls
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+# URLs, e.g. https://tvl.fyi
+# Based on /plumb/basic, but with most protocols removed
+# TODO(sterni): add default case to xdg-open
+type	is	text
+data	matches	'(https?)://[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+([.:][a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+)*/?[a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+([:.][a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+)*'
+plumb	to	web
+plumb	start	web $0