Most system administrators no longer edit the majority of configuration files by hand, they use automation and configuration management tools like puppet, saltstack, ansible, and the like. Many utilities and daemons in the FreeBSD base system use their own custom configuration file format. While these various different formats are usually accompanied by man pages, they do not lend themselves to automation or programmatic editing. Space and tab delimited files make it harder to extract a specific value, and difficult to edit that value in place, whereas nested key-value pairs are easier to read, and are easily addressed using libUCLs dotted notation. To solve this, I propose teaching the various utilities and daemons in the FreeBSD base system to speak UCL – the Universal Config Language, as implemented by libucl. In addition, I propose adding two small tools to the base system to make the administration of such config files easier for humans and automated scripts.