Avoiding gatekeeper in your terminal

To avoid Gatekeeper slowdowns in your terminal, add it as a "Developer Tool" in "Privacy and Security" settings in the System Settings app:

That will prevent Gatekeeper from running on every app you launch.

via this article where the author investigated build slowdowns due to Gatekeeper. There is a comment on news.yc that suggests you may need to run sudo spctl developer-mode enable-terminal to enable that category.

I've added it to my mac setup script

TODO: I really want to be able to add apps to this category with a command line program - anybody know how to do that?

Some github sleuthing later reveals:

• To get an app's bundle specifier, use mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier $APP_NAME
• This pair of commands would probably insert Alacritty into the correct section, but is not enabled unless SIP is disabled:

sudo tccutil --service "kTCCServiceDeveloperTool" --insert "org.alacritty"
sudo tccutil --service "kTCCServiceDeveloperTool" --enable "org.alacritty"

Something that's neat is that you can see what's in that table via sqlite:

$ sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db << 'EOF'
.headers on
.mode column
select service, client, last_modified from access where service='kTCCServiceDeveloperTool';
EOF
service                   client                 last_modified
------------------------  ---------------------  -------------
kTCCServiceDeveloperTool  com.apple.Terminal     1757006811   
kTCCServiceDeveloperTool  com.googlecode.iterm2  1757006821   
kTCCServiceDeveloperTool  com.mitchellh.ghostty  1757006816   
kTCCServiceDeveloperTool  net.kovidgoyal.kitty   1757006809