omarchy-development

omarchy-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyPoschen/agent-skills. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,438 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A development guide for changing and testing Omarchy source code in an isolated virtual machine. Omarchy is a software project with shell and QML code, installation sources, and system migrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Omarchy shell or QML code, installation behavior, migrations, developer links, or upstream changes, with focused tests and VM verification.
Why use it?
It keeps the installed system unchanged while developers test source changes in a disposable environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyposchen/agent-skills/omarchy-development
Any agent
npx skills add AnthonyPoschen/agent-skills --skill omarchy-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnthonyPoschen/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for omarchy-development

README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,438 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00111 $0.01438
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00719
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00144

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8ff7912e13ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

omarchy-development scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service
skills/omarchy-development/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Omarchy Development

Develop Omarchy in a checkout and test it in a disposable guest. The host's installed Omarchy must stay on its packaged version: do not run omarchy dev link, restart the host shell, or reboot the host to test source changes.

Read source guidance first

In the Omarchy checkout, read AGENTS.md. Then read every linked task guide relevant to the change, especially:

  • agents/skills/shell-dev.md for QML/shell work.
  • agents/skills/acceptance-tests.md for graphical acceptance tests.
  • agents/skills/visual-verification.md for visible UI changes.

Run focused source tests before using the VM. For shell changes, this normally includes the affected test/shell.d/*-test.sh and qmllint on changed QML files.

Prepare the host once

Install the virtualization stack only with the user's authorization. Use sudo from an interactive terminal; when an agent cannot enter a password, use pkexec.

omarchy pkg add qemu-desktop qemu-full libvirt virt-manager dnsmasq edk2-ovmf swtpm
sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service
sudo usermod -aG libvirt "$USER"
sudo virsh net-start default
sudo virsh net-autostart default

The user must log out and back in before Virtual Machine Manager can use the new libvirt group membership. Confirm KVM is available with test -r /dev/kvm.

Use the official omacom-io/omarchy-iso harness to make an installed base once. Keep the ISO outside /tmp and verify its published checksum. The harness's --install-only mode creates a reusable base.qcow2; never boot or write that base directly.

Create a GUI-managed disposable overlay

Use a separate source worktree per change and an overlay directory per VM. Store overlays under ~/VMs/omarchy-<feature>/, not /tmp.

VM_NAME=omarchy-<feature>
VM_DIR="$HOME/VMs/$VM_NAME"
BASE_DISK=/absolute/path/to/base.qcow2
BASE_VARS=/absolute/path/to/OVMF_VARS.4m.fd

mkdir -p "$VM_DIR"
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b "$BASE_DISK" -F qcow2 "$VM_DIR/disk.qcow2"
cp "$BASE_VARS" "$VM_DIR/OVMF_VARS.4m.fd"

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 132 lines · 111 tokens per session scan B 8ff7912e13ac

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omarchy-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyPoschen/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,438 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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