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title: add config.json.example and a friendlier missing-config path
status: open
labels: [documentation, enhancement]
created: 2026-09-18
closed:
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`loadConfig` opens `~/.config/dew/config.json` directly and returns an error if it isn't there, so a fresh clone/build can't start at all and gives no hint about what to create. The struct has roughly 24 keys and none of them are documented anywhere.
Add a `config.json.example` (mirroring grrs's `config.toml.example`), and either write a default config on first run or fail with a message that points at the example.