diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ddd90b86..c415eec3 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ repos:
     rev: v0.9.3
     hooks:
       - id: taplo-format
+        exclude: /modify_.*\.toml$
 
   - repo: https://github.com/google/yamlfmt
     rev: v0.21.0
diff --git a/chezmoi/.chezmoitemplates/memsearch_config.toml b/chezmoi/.chezmoitemplates/memsearch_config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..406e8a68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chezmoi/.chezmoitemplates/memsearch_config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[embedding]
+provider = "onnx"
+
+[reranker]
+model = "Alibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base"
+
+[plugins.claude-code.user_profile]
+enabled = true
+output_file = "~/.memsearch/USER.md"
+
+[plugins.opencode.user_profile]
+enabled = true
+output_file = "~/.memsearch/USER.md"
diff --git a/chezmoi/private_dot_memsearch/modify_config.toml b/chezmoi/private_dot_memsearch/modify_config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3ecc2a10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chezmoi/private_dot_memsearch/modify_config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{{- /* chezmoi:modify-template */ -}}
+{{- $current := dict -}}
+{{- if .chezmoi.stdin | trim -}}
+{{-   $current = fromToml .chezmoi.stdin -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{- $template := includeTemplate "memsearch_config.toml" . | fromToml -}}
+{{- $merged := mergeOverwrite $current $template -}}
+{{ $merged | toToml }}