# SharePlane Special: Omarchy — Evidence Ledger Research snapshot: 2026-08-30 Primary artifact: `shareplane-special-omarchy-agent-native-workstation-uat.html` ## Editorial thesis Omarchy is significant less as a novel Linux base and more as an agent-addressable workstation architecture: coherent defaults, text-readable configuration, a unified Quickshell desktop, CLI operations, agent launchers, and transactional recovery. Its major unresolved architecture is authority: capability-scoped agent/plugin mutation, platform trust, isolation, provenance, and audit. ## Primary evidence 1. Omarchy homepage: project positions itself as “The malleable OS for the age of agents.” https://omarchy.org/ 2. Omarchy 4.0.0 Quattro release: unified Quickshell shell and plugin architecture. https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/releases/tag/v4.0.0 3. Omarchy 4.0.1: security-heavy fast-follow released 2026-08-25. https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/releases/tag/v4.0.1 4. AI manual: coding-agent launchers including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI, and others. https://omarchy.org/manual/ai/ 5. Dotfiles manual: user-owned state under ~/.config, Hyprland Lua and Omarchy shell JSON. https://omarchy.org/manual/dotfiles/ 6. Shell plugins manual: third-party plugins run as arbitrary unsandboxed user code in the long-lived shell process. https://omarchy.org/manual/shell-plugins/ 7. Updates manual: stable Omarchy Arch mirror trails upstream by roughly one month. https://omarchy.org/manual/updates/ 8. System snapshots: automatic update snapshots, Limine restore, root-only rollback caveat. https://omarchy.org/manual/system-snapshots/ 9. Getting started: current requirement to disable Secure Boot and/or TPM. https://omarchy.org/manual/getting-started/ 10. Windows VM: KVM/Docker/RDP Windows fallback and its limits. https://omarchy.org/manual/windows-vm/ 11. Project-reported 100,000+ ISO downloads in one week, 2026-08-28. https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/100000-downloads-in-a-week/ 12. Project-reported Omacom Foundation funding reached $10 million. https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-funding-hits-10m/ 13. 37signals announced a three-year migration plan for Ops and Ruby programming teams. https://world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-on-omarchy-at-37signals-68162450 14. Independent security critique used as a dissenting source, with claims cross-checked against first-party release notes. https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ 15. UEFI Secure Boot standard reference. https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.11/03_Boot_Manager.html 16. Trusted Computing Group TPM 2.0 specification reference. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/tpm-library-specification/ ## Source-boundary notes - Download counts, plugin counts, funding totals, and adoption momentum attributed to Omarchy are project-reported unless otherwise stated. - 100,000 ISO downloads are not represented as 100,000 active installations. - The independent security critique is not treated as neutral authority. Its vulnerability-class claims are used only where corroborated by Omarchy's own 4.0.1 release notes or first-party documentation. - Enterprise and regulated-endpoint judgments are SharePlane architectural analysis, not Omarchy claims. - The Omarchy → GhostMesh → SharePlane three-layer model is explicitly labeled SharePlane synthesis. It describes a proposed cooperation architecture and must not be attributed to Omarchy or its maintainers. - Cross-platform comparisons are qualitative architectural interpretations of typical current deployments, not benchmarks, certifications, or vendor scores. ## Visual asset ledger - `hero_agent_native.png`: high-resolution SharePlane hero infographic replacing the rejected text-overflow visual. - `hero_agent_native_original.png`: retained pre-repair hero for provenance; not used in the finished HTML. - `infographic_quattro.png`: SharePlane original before/after Quattro architecture. - `infographic_authority_gap.png`: SharePlane original agent-authority target model. - `infographic_maturity.png`: SharePlane original deployment-readiness judgment. - `infographic_three_layers.png`: high-resolution SharePlane synthesis of the Omarchy execution, GhostMesh authority, and SharePlane durable Work planes. Five active visuals are embedded into the HTML as data URIs for a self-contained UAT master. The superseded hero remains only as provenance. ## SharePlane wrapper additions - Durable Work identity: `SP-SPECIAL-OMARCHY-2026-08-30`. - Local UAT lifecycle state and research snapshot retained in the publication wrapper. - Evidence rail remains first-party-led with dissenting evidence explicitly bounded. - Semantic graph relates the Work to agent-native computing, Linux/Windows compatibility, endpoint security, Context as Code, provenance and receipts, GhostMesh architecture, Durable Work, and declarative systems/NixOS. - Reserved companion thesis: **Beyond Omarchy: The Governed Agent-Native Workstation**. - The SharePlane synthesis section is intentionally placed after the independent Omarchy analysis so the editorial thesis remains separable from the proposed architecture. ## Production-shape verification pass — 2026-08-30 - Re-opened all 16 source destinations used by the publication wrapper. - Added the previously ledgered but omitted Dotfiles Manual to the visible evidence rail, bringing the visible rail to the stated 16 sources. - Added machine-readable `source-index.json` with source class, supported claim, and verification status. - Added `relationships.json` with the eight typed semantic edges rendered by the SharePlane graph. - Added `publication-manifest.json` with file hashes and publication-state metadata. - Exported `assets/agent-native-workstation-hero-full.png` as the downloadable master for the approved hero visual. - Corrected the hero layout rule that had overridden `.shell` auto-centering; the hero now uses an independent publication frame up to 1480 px wide with automatic side margins.