quickshell-bar

quickshell-bar is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills. It costs 250 tokens per session (3,418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for editing and debugging the Quickshell status bar on Hyprland, a Linux desktop compositor. The bar uses Qt6 and QML, and its configuration is stored in a specific dotfiles directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing bar modules such as workspaces, the clock, audio, system statistics, tray, or brightness, or when the bar is blank or fails to start.
Why use it?
It addresses stale processes, unreliable hot reloads, startup errors, and modules that do not appear after an edit. It explains how to relaunch the bar and check the result visually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when changing bar modules such as workspaces, the clock, audio, system statistics, tray, or brightness, or when the bar is blank or fails to start.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smirnov-labs/claude-skills/quickshell-bar
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills --skill quickshell-bar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 250 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,418 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00250 $0.03418
Opus 5.5 $0.00100 $0.01367
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00050 $0.00684
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00342

Measured 5d ago against content hash 22962e6cb870, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quickshell-bar scanned grade A with 0 findings 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/quickshell-bar/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working on the hexane Quickshell bar

Overview

The default hexane bar is Quickshell 0.3.0 (Qt6/QML), running as qs (replaced waybar because waybar's workspace click-to-switch broke on Hyprland 0.56's Lua dispatch — see the hyprland-lua skill). Config lives in ~/.dotfiles/quickshell/, a directory symlink to ~/.config/quickshell/. Layout is FLAT — Quickshell auto-imports uppercase-neighbor .qml files, so there is no qmldir and no per-file imports of siblings. Entry point: shell.qml.

Core principle: hot-reload is unreliable through Edit-tool writes + the dir symlink, so never trust "I edited it, it's live" — RELAUNCH qs and QA visually with a screenshot. Most "it didn't work" moments are a stale process or a locked screen, not your code.

Source of truth for facts/gotchas: ~/docs/docs/systems/hexane/hyprland-bars.md (KB) and the design spec ~/.dotfiles/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-05-quickshell-bar-design.md. This skill is the how-to-work-on-it companion.

When this applies

  • The bar renders all-black or blank after an edit (or in a screenshot).
  • A module you added doesn't show, or qs won't start / logs a QML error.
  • A PopupWindow (e.g. a slider) lands at bar-level or off to the side.
  • A workspace shows a neutral dot instead of the window's app icon.
  • A blocklet script works when you run it but the bar shows stale/empty/?.
  • You need to add/restyle a module, or run the edit → relaunch → screenshot loop.

The dev loop (do this every time)

  1. Edit ~/.dotfiles/quickshell/*.qml (or lib/*). The symlink means changes are on disk immediately.
  2. Relaunch (never rely on hot-reload):
    pkill -x qs; hyprctl dispatch 'hl.dsp.exec_cmd("qs >/tmp/qs.log 2>&1")'
    
    ⚠️ Launch via hyprctl dispatch exec — the agent shell sandbox kills direct GUI spawns (exit 144). (hl.dsp.exec_cmd is the Lua dispatch; see the hyprland-lua skill.)
  3. Check the log: grep -iE 'error|warning|invalid|not a type' /tmp/qs.log. "Configuration Loaded" = clean parse; QML errors print file:line. (An sni.watcher StatusNotifierItem warning is benign.)
  4. Screenshot to QA (see below). Iterate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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 · 113 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A 22962e6cb870

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quickshell-bar is a skill published in the GitHub repository Smirnov-Labs/claude-skills (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 250 tokens to every session and 3,418 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-17.

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