--- title: Omarchy 4.0 adds AI agent tooling and a better... description: Omarchy 4.0, codenamed Quattro, integrates AI agents directly into the Linux desktop rather than as optional installs. New features include a crash watcher... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-4-0-adds-ai-agent-tooling-and-a-better-screenshot-annotator-uqdsjkgpr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Omarchy 4.0 adds AI agent tooling and a better screenshot annotator | daily.dev og:description: Omarchy 4.0, codenamed Quattro, integrates AI agents directly into the Linux desktop rather than as optional installs. New features include a crash watcher... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-4-0-adds-ai-agent-tooling-and-a-better-screenshot-annotator-uqdsjkgpr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uQdsjKgpR.png og:image:alt: Omarchy 4.0 adds AI agent tooling and a better screenshot annotator og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Omarchy 4.0 adds AI agent tooling and a better screenshot annotator **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Omarchy 4.0, codenamed Quattro, integrates AI agents directly into the Linux desktop rather than as optional installs. New features include a crash watcher that uses systemd-coredump to automatically brief a chosen AI agent on crashes, a default coding agent picker at setup with nine options (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, and others), and a model-usage widget tracking weekly limits across Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Oh My Pi, and OpenCode. Skipping agent selection at first boot disables agentic features. The move contrasts with projects like Rust, GCC, and Codeberg tightening restrictions on AI-generated contributions, and some developers, like IroncladDev, plan to skip the update over concerns about default AI integration. The release also brings improved screenshot annotation tooling. ## Content DHH shipped Omarchy 4.0 (codenamed Quattro), and it's the biggest change the project has made since launch. GitHub noticed too — the repo is sitting at 25,000 stars. People are calling it "Basecamp Linux," which feels about right given the opinionated, batteries-included philosophy DHH is known for. For anyone unfamiliar: Omarchy is an opinionated Arch setup built on Hyprland, MIT licensed, designed to skip the usual weeks of Linux dotfiles tinkering and just work. ## The desktop shell got rewritten from scratch The headline change is architectural. Omarchy used to run Waybar, Walker, and a pile of separate daemons duct-taped together. Quattro tears all of that out and replaces it with a single Quickshell process — a Qt Quick-based toolkit — that handles the bar, launcher, menus, notifications, and lock screen. One process instead of five or six loosely coordinated ones, and you can script the whole thing over IPC. Other changes in the release: - Dual-boot support is now built into the installer. - The ISO is under 6GB, and installs are apparently over 30% faster — sometimes under a minute. - NetworkManager powers the new network panel. - A better screenshot annotation tool is on the way, according to Tobi. - Plugins have their own directory structure now, so you're not forking dotfiles just to add a feature. ## Where this actually matters I keep coming back to who benefits from this, because "opinionated Linux distro" can sound like a solved problem until you think about who's actually installing OSes at scale. A shop buying developer machines doesn't want to pay the Mac tax just so someone can run Docker and a terminal. Image Omarchy instead — Docker multi-arch is on by default, and the installer can prep a laptop without creating the final user's account. That's fleet imaging, not someone's personal rice. A consultancy that loses the first week of every new hire to ## Questions this post answers ### What new AI features are coming in Omarchy 4.0 (Quattro)? Omarchy 4.0, codenamed Quattro, wires AI agents directly into the operating system. It adds a crash watcher using systemd-coredump and a diagnose-crash skill that automatically briefs a chosen AI agent on process crashes, a default coding agent picker at setup with nine options including Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, and Copilot, and a model-usage widget tracking weekly limits across Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Oh My Pi, and OpenCode. _Developers weighing how much AI integration they want in their OS can track releases like Omarchy's on daily.dev._ ### Can I disable the AI agent features in Omarchy 4.0? Yes, if no default coding agent is selected during first boot setup, the agentic features simply stay off in Omarchy 4.0 (Quattro). This gives users a way to opt out of the crash watcher and model-usage widget while still using the rest of the distribution. _daily.dev helps developers deciding whether to adopt AI-integrated tooling stay on top of releases like this one._ --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#opencode](https://daily.dev/tags/opencode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-4-0-adds-ai-agent-tooling-and-a-better-screenshot-annotator-uqdsjkgpr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Omarchy 4.0 adds AI agent tooling and a better screenshot annotator","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-4-0-adds-ai-agent-tooling-and-a-better-screenshot-annotator-uqdsjkgpr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/omarchy-4-0-adds-ai-agent-tooling-and-a-better-screenshot-annotator-uqdsjkgpr"},"datePublished":"2026-08-13T12:28:16.959Z","dateModified":"2026-08-17T03:18:25.518Z","description":"Omarchy 4.0, codenamed Quattro, integrates AI agents directly into the Linux desktop rather than as optional installs. 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