omarchy/shell/plugins/agents

Agents

One bar icon and one panel for every AI coding subscription on the machine. The panel is strictly a display: it watches the usage records that omarchy-agent-usage-update writes to ~/.local/state/omarchy/agents/usage/ and draws whatever appears there. Panel.qml owns the bar button and the popup; Main.qml discovers and watches the records (and handles the optional cross-device aggregation); Agent.qml is the per-record file watcher.

Panel

Every subscription on one page, limits first.

• Hero — the agents robot, and a line that rotates through what the token counts add up to across every agent: tokens this week and today, the most used model, the busiest day, and today's prompts and sessions. Its corner has + to add a subscription and >_ to start the default agent.
• One section per agent — its mark, name, and plan, then a compact line per limit window: its meter and the time until it resets (the exact percentage on hover). A model-scoped allowance on the same clock (Claude's Fable weekly limit) is a tick on that window's meter rather than a line of its own; the row's tooltip names it. Sign-in and endpoint trouble shows under the name in the urgent color. Limits kept from an earlier check after a failed one dim, and their tooltip says how old they are.
• Accounts — an agent with more than one subscription account (see omarchy agent account) lists each: name and plan on one line (the email on hover), and its own limit lines. An ACTIVE label marks the account new sessions start as; the others get a Use link. Hovering the line also reveals Autoswitch, which moves new sessions over on their own once the active account reaches its threshold; while it's on it stands in for Use, which shows only when you're on the line, and clicking it again goes back to notifying. Click a name to rename the account in place.
• Balance — prepaid agents show a credit ledger instead of limits: a fuel-gauge meter that drains toward empty, the remaining credit, and funded-versus-spent detail.
• Make something cool — starter prompts (a new theme, plugin, or app) that start the default agent on the task through omarchy agent prompt.
• Adding a subscription — the + in the hero's corner swaps the page for Claude Code, Codex, and Grok as large marks, three across, with the first one focused, and the hero's line reads Add an account. The + becomes the X that goes back. An agent that can't be added is dimmed and says why on hover. A further account asks for a name first, and Enter signs it in. The panel then runs omarchy-agent-account-add --events and follows it: the status, the code Grok asks you to confirm in the browser, a field to paste Claude's code back if its page shows one instead of finishing, and a link to reopen the sign-in page. Esc or the X stops the login. The browser taking focus may close the panel; the sign-in carries on and its result arrives as a notification.

The icon is always in the bar. On a machine with no agent yet, the panel is the blank slate for setting one up: it opens on the same choice of Claude, Codex, or Grok, and the first agent signed in becomes the default agent if none was picked. An agent appears once it is enabled in settings and has recorded usage, on this machine or a synced one; a CLI installed mid-session shows up at the next refresh. Drop the widget with omarchy plugin disable omarchy.agents.

Data

Each agent is one JSON record in ~/.local/state/omarchy/agents/usage/, written by omarchy-agent-usage-update. That command runs one omarchy-agent-usage-<agent> collector per agent; the widget invokes it on its refresh timer and whenever you ask for a refresh, and picks up any record that lands in the directory regardless of who wrote it.

Adding an agent therefore never touches this plugin: ship a collector that prints the record contract (see the claude and codex collectors in bin/), and the panel gains a tab. An assets/<id>.svg mark is optional — with an assets/<id>-light.svg twin if the mark needs a dark variant for light surfaces — and the bar glyph stands in when there is none.

Collector	Limits	Local stats
claude	Anthropic's OAuth usage endpoint (5-hour session + 7-day weekly)	~/.claude/projects transcripts, opencode sessions on an Anthropic provider, plus stats-cache.json and history.jsonl as fallback
codex	The Codex app-server RPC	native Codex CLI session files (plus pi and opencode sessions)
grok	The credits endpoint behind Grok's /usage view (the billing period's included usage)	Each session's usage.json (the ledger grok usage prints: tokens by model per finished turn), plus summary.json for sessions
fireworks	Estimated prepaid balance: configured funding minus rated account costs	Fireworks billing API, grouped by day and model for the last 30 days

When ~/.local/state/omarchy/agents/accounts/<claude|codex|grok>.json registers more than one account, the claude, codex, and grok records also carry accounts: [{ id, label, email, plan, active, limits, stale, usageStatusText, authHelpText }], each account probed with its own sign-in (Claude caches each account's limits separately; Codex runs one app-server per account home), and accountSwitch: { mode, threshold }. The record's top-level limits and tierLabel keep describing the active account, and local stats stay one set, since every account shares the primary home's history. After each run, omarchy-agent-usage-update hands the fresh limits to omarchy-agent-account-state autoswitch, which notifies or switches when the active account crosses its threshold, and re-collects the record if the active account changed.

Claude limits need a signed-in CLI; without credentials the panel says so and falls back to local stats only. A non-default Claude directory is honored via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, Codex via CODEX_HOME, Grok via GROK_HOME. Grok's plan comes from the settings it caches in its home, and its limit from the credits endpoint its own /usage view reads, asked with each account's sign-in; a sign-in left to lapse shows the last credits until Grok runs again. Fireworks reads FIREWORKS_API_KEY and FIREWORKS_ACCOUNT_ID first, then ~/.fireworks/auth.ini (which firectl set-api-key creates), then the key opencode stores in ~/.local/share/opencode/auth.json when Fireworks is signed in there.

Fireworks balance

The collector first asks the account's :getBalance endpoint for the real prepaid ledger. That endpoint exists but is permission-gated, and as of August 2026 no console-issued API key passes it — Fireworks appears to reserve it for the dashboard session. The probe stays because it is cheap and the live figure lights up automatically if Fireworks ever opens it to keys. Until then the collector falls back to estimating the balance from configuration in ~/.config/omarchy/agents/fireworks.json:

{
  "accountId": "",
  "fundedAmount": 20,
  "fundedAt": "2026-07-01"
}

Set fundedAmount to the credits purchased and optionally fundedAt to the purchase date; with no date, the collector uses the account creation time. It subtracts rated account costs and the panel labels the result as estimated. For a later top-up, increase fundedAmount by the new credit while keeping the original fundedAt, so both the funding and spend still cover the same period. accountId only matters when one API key can access several accounts. Without a configured fundedAmount the tab still shows token usage, just no balance. With a live ledger, fundedAmount is optional and only adds the meter and the spent-of-funded line under the real figure.

Interactions

• Bar icon: left = panel, right = launch agent, middle = refresh. It turns urgent when any account new sessions use is at 90% of a window, or a prepaid balance is down to its last 10%.
• Panel: the arrows (or h/j/k/l) walk a cursor over everything that does something, row by row: the hero's buttons, each agent's header, each switchable account (landing on Use, with Autoswitch to its left), and the starter tiles, or the agents to add. Ctrl+Up/Down (or Ctrl+k/j) moves the agent the cursor is in up or down the page; dragging an agent by its mark does the same, lighting the header it will land on. The order is kept in ~/.local/state/omarchy/agents/order.json. Hovering moves the same cursor. Enter acts on it, or refreshes when nothing is lit; r refreshes, Tab moves to the neighboring bar panel, Esc closes.
• Accounts: 1–9 jump to an account across every agent, and Enter makes it active (picking alone never switches). m toggles automatic switching for the picked account's agent. While an agent with several accounts has its active one within 15 points of its switch threshold (80% at the default), the limits refresh every three minutes.
• IPC: omarchy-shell omarchy.agents <open|close|toggle|refresh>.

Settings

Settings live in the widget's entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json. The top-level keys can be set with omarchy bar set omarchy.agents <key> <value>:

Key	Default	What it does
refreshIntervalSec	900	How often the usage records regenerate
syncMode	"Off"	"On" writes this machine's snapshot and merges the others
syncDir	""	A folder synced by Syncthing, Dropbox, rsync, …
syncFileName	<hostname>.json	This machine's snapshot file
syncDeviceId	hostname	Stable device name inside the snapshot

Numbers need --json, or they land in shell.json as strings:

omarchy bar set omarchy.agents refreshIntervalSec 300 --json
omarchy bar set omarchy.agents syncDir '~/Sync/agent-usage'

Per-agent enablement is nested, and set writes its key literally rather than walking a dotted path — so pass the whole providers object as JSON (or edit shell.json directly):

omarchy bar set omarchy.agents providers '{
  "claude": { "enabled": true },
  "codex": { "enabled": false },
  "fireworks": { "enabled": true }
}' --json

enabled defaults to true for every discovered agent; set it to false to hide a subscription that is installed. Disabled agents are also skipped when the records regenerate.

With syncMode on, every *.json snapshot in syncDir is merged, so today, the last 7 days, and the all-time totals cover every machine you code on — active days are unioned by date rather than summed. Rate limits stay per-account and are never merged. A record may declare "scope": "account" when its stats are account-global rather than machine-local (Fireworks' billing API); those merge by taking the widest value instead of summing, so the same account synced from two machines is not counted twice.

One caveat on "all-time": the Codex collector only reads native session files touched in the last 30 days, and Fireworks requests the last 30 days from its billing API, so their totals and day counts cover that window. Claude's cover every transcript still on disk.