Let a crash diagnosis mute that program's notifications

A crash that is understood is not a crash that stops: an upstream bug waiting on a release, a program that dumps core every time it exits. The diagnosis explains it once and the toast keeps arriving, and the only answer Omarchy had was Crash Capture, which turns off every program's notifications in order to silence one.

The watcher already resolves a name to dedupe on and announces that same name in the toast, so the mute is keyed on it: a flag file under toggles/crash-ignore/, written by the existing omarchy-toggle and read by the existing omarchy-toggle-enabled. One flag per name rather than one list, so `on` mutes, `off` un-mutes, and `ls -A` shows what is muted, with no new file format and nothing to parse. It is the executable's basename wherever one was recorded, falling back to the process name, which the kernel truncates to fifteen characters -- muting the truncated form would match nothing, forever, while looking like it worked.

The name is not always a name, though, and the mute turns it into a path. A program picks its own comm and prctl takes anything, including slashes, and the watcher falls back to comm whenever a crash carries no absolute executable. So it is stripped to its last component first: without that, `a/../bar-off` is a legal comm aimed at an unrelated Omarchy flag, letting a crashing program suppress its own notification and letting a user who accepted the offered mute hide their bar instead. Stripping does not always leave a component either -- `/` leaves an empty string, which is no kind of array subscript and no kind of toast, and `.` or `..` names a directory that omarchy-toggle would touch and report success on, leaving a mute that never matches. Both fall back to `unknown`, the word omarchy-agent-crash already uses for a name it does not have, and which mutes like any other.

The skill offers this at the end of a diagnosis and never runs it unprompted, which makes it the single change a diagnosis may make to a system it otherwise only reads. It tells the agent to use the name it was handed rather than re-derive one, since the watcher resolved that name already and the two agree for ordinary names and not for strange ones; a diagnosis started by hand from `omarchy agent crash <pid>` is given no name and gets the derivation instead. It also says to treat the name as hostile text rather than as a word -- it is whatever the crashed program's author called a file, so a single quote inside one closes the quotes around it and the rest runs as the shell -- and to check the flag arrived rather than assume it.

Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
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@@ -71,11 +71,28 @@ journalctl -f -n 0 -o json "MESSAGE_ID=$COREDUMP_MESSAGE_ID" 2>/dev/null |
name=$comm
[[ $exe == /* ]] && name=${exe##*/}
# A process can set its own comm to anything prctl takes, slashes included,
# and a crash with no recorded executable falls back to it. The mute below
# turns this name into a path, so keep it one component: a crash must not
# reach a flag outside crash-ignore/, nor have a diagnosis write one there.
name=${name##*/}
# What that leaves is not always a name. "/" leaves nothing, which is no
# kind of array subscript and no kind of toast, and a dot component names a
# directory rather than a flag, so a mute on it would touch that directory
# and then never match.
[[ -n $name && $name != "." && $name != ".." ]] || name=unknown
[[ -n $ignore_pattern && $name =~ $ignore_pattern ]] && continue
# Never announce our own machinery, or it notifies about itself.
[[ $name == omarchy-crash-* || $name == omarchy-agent-* ]] && continue
# Muted at the end of a diagnosis, when the user was offered it and said
# yes. A flag per program rather than one list, so it un-mutes with
# `omarchy-toggle crash-ignore/<program> off` and reads with `ls -A`.
omarchy-toggle-enabled "crash-ignore/$name" && continue
now=$EPOCHSECONDS
(((now - ${last_notified[$name]:-0}) < dedupe_seconds)) && continue