diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f62ecc..9135dd6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,19 +14,56 @@ A modern, modular, and high-performance Neovim configuration built from scratch
 - **AI-Powered**: Native integration with the **GitHub Copilot Language Server**.
 - **User-Centric QoL**: Hybrid line numbers, autosave-on-edit, and seamless system clipboard integration.
 - **Resilient & Portable**: Intelligent terminal title management (Kitty + Fallback), automatic project root detection, and machine-local override support.
-- **Lean & Readable**: ~800 lines of Lua code (excluding comments and blanks).
+- **Lean & Readable**: ~850 lines of Lua code (excluding comments and blanks).
 
 ## 📁 Architecture
 
 The configuration is strictly modular:
 
-- `init.lua`: Entry point and global state initialization.
+- `init.lua`: Entry point, bootstrap, global state initialization, and machine-local overrides.
+- `lua/bootstrap.lua`: Early runtime setup — redirects Neovim's data/state paths when running as root (e.g. via a symlinked `~/.config/nvim`), preventing root sessions from polluting or conflicting with the user-level install.
 - `lua/lazyload.lua`: Logic for async and phased plugin loading.
-- `lua/options.lua`: Global Vim settings, root management, and terminal title logic.
+- `lua/options.lua`: Global Vim settings, auto-reload, root management, and terminal title logic.
 - `lua/plugins.lua`: Plugin declarations and detailed registry-based configurations.
 - `lua/keymaps.lua`: Centralized user-facing keybindings.
 - `lua/const.lua`: Stores constant values (like dashboard headers) for the configuration.
 
+## 🔌 Plugin Stack
+
+### Core UI
+- **Catppuccin**: Primary colorscheme (Mocha flavour).
+- **Lualine**: Statusline with Git diff and line-by-line Gitsigns blame.
+- **Noice**: Modern UI for cmdline (popup), messages, and LSP hover.
+- **Snacks**: High-performance dashboard, explorer, and pickers.
+- **Nvim-web-devicons**: Consistent icons across UI components.
+
+### Editing & Navigation
+- **Flash**: Enhanced motion and search.
+- **Focusline**: Keeps the active line at a configurable screen position (30%) during scrolling motions.
+- **Mini.ai**: Better text objects (including `g` for entire buffer).
+- **Mini.surround**: Surround text objects (add/delete/change).
+- **Mini.pairs**: Auto-close brackets and quotes.
+- **Persistence**: Session management.
+- **Which-key**: Interactive keybinding documentation.
+- **Gitsigns**: In-buffer git indicators and line highlights.
+- **Grug-far**: Project-wide search and replace.
+- **Gx.nvim**: Smart URL/reference opener under cursor.
+- **Comment-box**: Decorative comment boxes and lines.
+- **Undotree**: Visual undo history browser.
+- **Zen Mode**: Distraction-free editing.
+- **Qalc**: Inline calculator via `qalculate`.
+
+### LSP & Completion
+- **Blink.cmp** + **blink.lib**: High-performance Rust-based completion. Auto-detects binary across install layouts; falls back gracefully if unavailable. Rebuilds automatically on `PackChanged`.
+- **LSPConfig + Mason**: Managed LSP support for Lua, C/C++, Rust, Python, Fish, and Shell.
+- **Copilot**: GitHub Copilot language server integration.
+- **Conform**: Formatter with format-on-save and range formatting.
+- **Inc-rename**: Incremental LSP rename with live preview.
+- **Lazydev**: Neovim Lua type definitions for `lua_ls`.
+
+### Terminal
+- **Kitty Scrollback**: Browse Kitty terminal scrollback buffer inside Neovim.
+
 ## 🛠️ System Dependencies
 
 To ensure all features (pickers, formatters, and LSPs) work correctly, the following packages are required:
@@ -44,6 +81,7 @@ To ensure all features (pickers, formatters, and LSPs) work correctly, the follo
 - `Node.js` & `npm` (Copilot and various LSPs)
 - `Python3` & `pip` (Python LSPs)
 - `Cargo` (Rust toolchain, required for building `blink.cmp`)
+- `qalculate` (optional, required for the Qalc calculator plugin)
 
 ### Installation Commands
 
@@ -68,10 +106,14 @@ nvim
 
 ### Post-Install
 
-1.  **Build Blink**: If completion isn't working, run `cargo build --release` inside `~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/core/opt/blink.cmp`.
+1.  **Build Blink**: Completion auto-rebuilds on `PackChanged`. If it still isn't working, run `cargo build --release` inside `~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/core/opt/blink.cmp`.
 2.  **LSP Servers**: Run `:Mason` to monitor the installation of Language Servers.
 3.  **Copilot**: Run `:LspCopilotSignIn` to authenticate.
 
+### Machine-Local Overrides
+
+Place machine-specific or secret configuration in `~/.config/.user-dots/nvim/local.lua` or `~/.config/.user-dots/nvim/secrets.lua`. These files are sourced automatically at startup if present, and are intentionally outside the repo to avoid accidental commits.
+
 ## ⌨️ Key Features & Mappings
 
 | Key | Description |
diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 3e69fcc..97b990d 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -4,20 +4,11 @@
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 --]]
 
--- Copyright (C) 2026 rootiest
---
--- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
--- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
--- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
--- (at your option) any later version.
---
--- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
--- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
--- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
--- GNU General Public License for more details.
---
--- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
--- along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+-- Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+-- Trigger bootstrap (runtime path, etc.)
+require("bootstrap")
 
 -- Initialize global registry
 _G.Config = {
@@ -27,9 +18,9 @@ _G.Config = {
 
 -- Load core modules
 require("lazyload") -- Plugin lazy-loading module
-require("options")  -- Configuration options
-require("plugins")  -- Plugin specifications and setup
-require("keymaps")  -- Key mappings
+require("options") -- Configuration options
+require("plugins") -- Plugin specifications and setup
+require("keymaps") -- Key mappings
 
 -- Source machine-local and secret overrides (silently ignored if absent)
 local user_dots = vim.fn.expand("~/.config/.user-dots/nvim/")
diff --git a/lua/bootstrap.lua b/lua/bootstrap.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65c0353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lua/bootstrap.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--          ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+--          │                        Bootstaps                        │
+--          ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+
+---- Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+-- This file is sourced before anything else so it can be used to set up
+-- the runtime path and other fundamental settings.
+
+--  ─────────────── Manage root user permissions for Neovim ───────────────
+
+-- Redirect data directories if running as root to avoid permission issues
+if os.getenv("USER") == "root" or os.getenv("SUDO_USER") ~= nil then
+	local root_data = "/root/.local/share/nvim-root"
+	vim.opt.packpath:prepend(root_data .. "/site")
+	vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(root_data .. "/site")
+	-- Prevent root from writing shada to your user home
+	vim.opt.shadafile = "/root/.local/state/nvim-root.shada"
+end
diff --git a/lua/const.lua b/lua/const.lua
index 88a02af..9ec3c6b 100644
--- a/lua/const.lua
+++ b/lua/const.lua
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 --]]
 
+-- Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
 local M = {}
 
 --- Dashboard Header
diff --git a/lua/keymaps.lua b/lua/keymaps.lua
index aeb3426..0c58636 100644
--- a/lua/keymaps.lua
+++ b/lua/keymaps.lua
@@ -4,20 +4,8 @@
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 --]]
 
--- Copyright (C) 2026 rootiest
---
--- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
--- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
--- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
--- (at your option) any later version.
---
--- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
--- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
--- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
--- GNU General Public License for more details.
---
--- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
--- along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+---- Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 -- System Clipboard Integration
 -- This makes 'y' and 'p' (and all other yank/paste operations)
diff --git a/lua/options.lua b/lua/options.lua
index 8d15222..3319750 100644
--- a/lua/options.lua
+++ b/lua/options.lua
@@ -4,20 +4,8 @@
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 --]]
 
--- Copyright (C) 2026 rootiest
---
--- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
--- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
--- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
--- (at your option) any later version.
---
--- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
--- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
--- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
--- GNU General Public License for more details.
---
--- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
--- along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+---- Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 --          ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
 --          │                      Basic Options                      │
diff --git a/lua/plugins.lua b/lua/plugins.lua
index bf77842..272ffec 100644
--- a/lua/plugins.lua
+++ b/lua/plugins.lua
@@ -4,20 +4,8 @@
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 --]]
 
--- Copyright (C) 2026 rootiest
---
--- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
--- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
--- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
--- (at your option) any later version.
---
--- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
--- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
--- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
--- GNU General Public License for more details.
---
--- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
--- along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+---- Copyright (C) 2026 Rootiest
+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 -- Catppuccin.nvim
 -- Eagerly load the colorscheme plugin.