--defaults prints the built-in config as JSON

For the quickshell settings window's Assistant page, which shows each
default as the placeholder of its field and falls back to it when a
field is emptied. Reading them from here keeps one copy of the defaults.

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

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62751e7..9127aaf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ their output. Reasoning is shown live and not stored.
 
 ## Configuration and tools
 
+The quickshell desktop's settings window edits all of this (its Assistant
+page), keeping the file's comments, and restarts the daemon to apply it;
+`python3 assistant.py --defaults` prints the built-in values it shows.
+
 Everything is optional. Settings and tools live in
 `~/.config/desktop-assistant/` (or `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/desktop-assistant/`):
 
diff --git a/assistant.py b/assistant.py
index 9004243..e2b576d 100644
--- a/assistant.py
+++ b/assistant.py
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
 model answers with tools, replies stream back on the same socket, and every
 finished turn is kept in a SQLite history with full-text search.
 
-Run: python3 assistant.py        (--test runs the self-check)
+Run: python3 assistant.py        (--test runs the self-check, --defaults
+prints the built-in config as JSON, for a settings UI)
 """
 
 import base64
@@ -1481,4 +1482,9 @@ def test():
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    test() if sys.argv[1:] == ["--test"] else main()
+    if sys.argv[1:] == ["--test"]:
+        test()
+    elif sys.argv[1:] == ["--defaults"]:
+        print(json.dumps(DEFAULTS))
+    else:
+        main()