Watch Me Build An Omarchy Quattro Plugin in - 12 Minutes, Zero Code
Yesterday I showed you what Omarchy Quattro's plugin system can do. Today I show you how easy it is to build your own — live, unscripted, from a blank prompt to a working Heymail inbox plugin in about 12 minutes. No planning…
Yesterday I showed you what Omarchy Quattro's plugin system can do. Today I show you how easy it is to build your own — live, unscripted, from a blank prompt to a working Heymail inbox plugin in about 12 minutes. No planning docs, no code written by hand, just me guiding an agent through it while I waffle at the camera.
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THE PROBLEM I'M SOLVING
I use Heymail — 37signals' email service — and it's web-based, so on Omarchy I get no notifications and no quick way to glance at my inbox. But Heymail has a CLI, which makes it perfect agent fodder. So the brief: a bar panel showing my last 10 emails, desktop notifications when new mail arrives, and click-through to the web version to read the full message.
THE BUILD — LIVE AND UNEDITED
I open Claude with CX, tell it "I want to build a plugin," and let it load the built-in Omarchy skills — Quattro ships with everything an agent needs to understand the system. From there it's just guidance: create a project folder, install the Heymail CLI (one sudo grant), authenticate against my account, build the panel.
You watch it work through its own bugs live — the envelope icon refusing to render in the bar, switching icon approaches, testing against the working disk-space plugin I'd made earlier that morning. It finds and fixes its own problems. Total time: about 12 minutes and 37,000 tokens for a working plugin with notifications.
Then I get it to bug check itself, write all its notes to the project folder, and gitignore them — my tip for keeping long projects sane. Local notes mean you can drag the folder into a fresh session and say "catch up with this" without polluting anything.
THE QML AGENT TRICK
At the end I build something even more useful — a QML expert agent. Feed Claude the QT documentation links and the Omarchy plugin contract, and it creates a specialist agent that knows exactly how to write Quattro plugins. Do this once and every future plugin build gets faster and cleaner. I keep a stable of these — bash agents, C++ agents, Go agents — and for bigger projects you can run an adversarial agent that assumes everything it's given is wrong and fights the builder for the best result.
TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES
Plan in your head, not in build mode — know what you want before you start. Take charge of the AI rather than letting it decide. Speak English to it, don't start talking like it. Start small — a disk space panel, then email, then whatever you imagine. Use Vox type if your spelling is as bad as mine. And for big jobs, offload to a remote box with OmaTerm and let it ping you when it needs you.
Bonus story — I recently had Claude log into a physical office scanner's web interface and program 10 users into it remotely, saving me from the touchscreen interface from hell. This stuff isn't just plugins.
THE BIGGER POINT
You don't need middlemen anymore. I built Sentinel — a website uptime monitor that replaces a $30-a-month service — the same way. If there's something you want on your desktop that doesn't exist, you just describe it and build it. Try doing that on Windows 11, where I recently fought install signatures just to ship a simple app. Here, you push to Git, pull it down on any machine, and it's yours forever.
More plugin videos coming — if there's something you want built or explained, drop it in the comments.
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00:00 - Start
00:09 - INTRO
03:06 - building
38:08 - FINAL WORDS