Replace --exec-arg with an ergonomic --exec that consumes the rest of the line
as the click command. The caller's shell tokenizes the words into discrete
arguments before the tool sees them, and the shell runs them as positional
parameters (never a re-parsed string), so safety is identical to the argv form
while the call sites read naturally: `--exec omarchy toggle something`.
Crucially the tool never splits a string itself — a single quoted whole-command
argument is rejected and points at the unquoted form, because whitespace-
splitting a string hands argument boundaries to whoever controls its content
(the injection we are avoiding). --exec must come last; migrate every caller.
A free-form shell-string --exec sitting next to the safe --exec-arg is a
standing invitation for the next caller to interpolate untrusted data and
reintroduce the RCE. Remove it: omarchy-notification-send --exec now errors and
points at --exec-arg, and the shell drops the omarchy-exec string hint and its
bash -lc execution path, leaving only the argv path.
Migrate the remaining string callers (the first-run invitation hooks, wifi and
welcome prompts) to --exec-arg, and update their notification mocks. Trim the
verbose security comments added along the way.
Quickshell.execDetached(argv) ran the click target with only the shell
process's stripped environment, so GUI actions like the screenshot editor
(tensaku-edit) — resolved on the login-shell PATH the old `bash -lc` string
exec provided — stopped launching on click.
Run the argv through `bash -lc 'exec "$@"'` instead: the script text is a
constant and the arguments are passed as positional parameters, which bash
expands without re-tokenizing or re-evaluating, so injection safety is intact
while PATH and session env match the old behavior exactly.
The click action of a notification was a free-form shell string run through
`bash -lc`, safe only when every sender shell-quoted every interpolated value
perfectly. One slip is RCE: a hostile yt-dlp video title forged an output
record and injected an mpv option into the click command (mehmetince.net RCE,
partially addressed by #7847).
Add a parameterized transport: omarchy-notification-send gains --exec-arg
(repeatable), encoding a JSON argv into the omarchy-exec-argv hint. The shell
runs it with Quickshell.execDetached(argv) and no shell, so data an attacker
controls is only ever one argument and can never be reparsed as a command. The
shell fails closed on a malformed argv hint.
The legacy free-form --exec string is retained but honored only from Omarchy's
own omarchy-action toasts, and deprecated. Migrate all in-repo callers
(screenshot, screen recording, taildrop receive, migrate-notify, crash-watch,
yt-dlp host) to --exec-arg. Update docs and tests.
Every reference doc was audited claim-by-claim against the code.
file-layout and omarchy-shell were the most decayed (renamed commands,
the etc/ overrides source split, dead IPC entry points and example keys);
update-process lagged the recent pipeline changes and gains a channels
section; theming and audio-tuning were accurate but thin around their
lifecycles.
New reference docs for the subsystems that had none: the menu system,
the CLI router, the notification daemon, and the non-acceptance test
architecture. AGENTS.md links the two of those agents will need most.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ryan Hughes