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David Heinemeier HanssonandClaude Fable 5 798d6af8b0 Replace the plugin package manager with plain git

A plugin is now just a git repo cloned into ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/<id>/.
That one idea replaces the entire homegrown package-manager half of the
plugin suite: trusted-source registry, clone cache, catalog scanning,
semver comparison, staging dirs, and timestamped backups — 1,025 lines
across five binaries whose jobs git already does.

Gone:

- omarchy-plugin-source: the trusted-repo registry (sources.json) and its
  clone cache under ~/.cache/omarchy/plugin-sources/. The trust decision
  now happens once, at add time, with the same unsandboxed-code warning.
- omarchy-plugin-scan + omarchy-plugin-available: the catalog machinery
  over cached clones. Discovery belongs on a web page, not in the CLI.
- omarchy-plugin-add: copying folders out of cached source clones with
  hand-rolled staging and .bak backups. Replaced by a git clone.
- omarchy-plugin-update: manifest version comparison via sort -V and
  re-installs. Replaced by fetch + diff + fast-forward; git is the version
  and git is the backup.
- omarchy-plugin-remove and omarchy-plugin-edit as separate binaries:
  folded into omarchy-plugin, much slimmer.

The consolidated omarchy-plugin now handles the full lifecycle:

- add <git-url>: warn, clone into a dot-prefixed staging dir (invisible
  to the plugin scanner), validate, then move into place named by the
  manifest id. Plugins land disabled — enabling is the single consent
  moment, replacing the old review-before-copy flow.
- update [id | --all]: fetch origin HEAD, show the diff (delta when
  available), confirm, fast-forward. Updates are code the shell will run,
  so the result is re-validated and rolled back to ORIG_HEAD if upstream
  turned invalid (e.g. smuggled a symlink).
- remove [id]: git checkouts are deleted outright since upstream keeps
  the history; hand-made plugin folders still get a backup, and dev
  symlinks are just unlinked.
- edit [id]: opens the user plugin directory in a shell.

All commands keep the interactive/unattended split: gum prompts in a
terminal, hard refusal without --yes otherwise, so scripts and agents
never hang on a hidden prompt.

Kept as siblings: omarchy-plugin-catalog (omarchy-bar reads it),
omarchy-plugin-validate (the security boundary, now pruning .git from its
symlink scan since installs are git checkouts), and omarchy-plugin-clone
(local development of built-in widgets, a separate concern).

Trade-offs accepted: one repo = one plugin (no more multi-plugin source
repos), and ref pinning or branch switching is no longer a CLI feature —
an installed plugin is a plain checkout, so that is ordinary git in the
plugin directory.

None of the removed machinery ever shipped: it existed only on this
branch, so there is no migration. The net effect is 11 scripts / 2,040
lines down to 4 scripts / 1,080 lines, and one less concept for users to
learn — everyone already knows what a git repo is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-02 21:47:33 -07:00