Hermarchy

What Hermarchy does

Hermarchy coordinates Omarchy's desktop, shell, launcher, terminal and editor palettes, notifications, browser accents, lock screen and TUI surfaces, and ships three original 3840x2400 wallpapers plus a transparent lock mark. The look is near-black and graphite with warm white for human-readable content, roughly 95 percent monochrome and 5 percent signal color. Cyan marks active focus or agent execution only, amber marks explicit human input, and green and red show temporary completed or failed outcomes.

The base theme installs from the Omarchy menu or with omarchy theme install, and activates with omarchy theme set hermarchy. It does not install Hermes. An opt-in second step installs a read-only local adapter and a user-local Quickshell plugin that adds a compact HERMES state signal to the bar. Clicking it opens a bounded panel built from validated local state. If Hermes is absent or its state cannot be read, the indicator stays muted and reports unavailable or unknown rather than claiming activity. The project describes itself as an independent community theme.

Key features

• Theme coverage for desktop, shell, launcher, terminal and editor palettes, notifications and lock screen
• Three original wallpapers, cycled with omarchy theme bg next
• Semantic color, with cyan reserved for focus or agent execution
• Optional HERMES status indicator in the Omarchy bar
• Bounded details panel that uses only validated local state
• Muted fallback when Hermes is missing or its state is unreadable

When to use it

• Giving an Omarchy desktop a consistent near-black theme
• Seeing at a glance in the bar whether a Hermes agent is executing
• Keeping Hermes activity visible on a Linux workstation without opening a terminal

Who it is for: Omarchy users on Linux who want a quiet dark theme and, optionally, a Hermes Agent status indicator.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

A desktop theme for Omarchy with an optional read-only status integration for Hermes Agent; Hermes is not required and is not installed by the theme.

How to install Hermarchy

These commands are copied from the project's README. Check the repository for the latest steps before you run them.

omarchy theme install https://github.com/archer-clawbot/omarchy-hermarchy-theme.git
omarchy theme set hermarchy
theme_dir="$(omarchy theme dir hermarchy)"
"$theme_dir/extras/quickshell/install.sh"

Requirements: Base theme: Omarchy v4 and git. Optional agent indicator: Omarchy's user-local plugin API, Quickshell, Linux, python3 and omarchy. Hermes itself is optional

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