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Omarchy on Apple Silicon

Omarchy is the first desktop that treats coding agents as the assumption rather than an add-on, and Apple Silicon is where most of the engineers who would want it already are. These posts are one machine, one engineer, and no vendor: what it took to get there, what the OS does with agents once you arrive, and what it costs a team that has to answer for the security of it.

Read the field report first. The AGENTS.md read and the keyboard page are references; the safety-off post is for whoever signs the security questionnaire.

The reading order

  1. 1.

    I Put Omarchy on an M1 MacBook Pro

    What happens when you stop buying the Mac and run the agent stack on Linux instead. Omarchy on an M1 via omarchy-mac and Asahi Alarm — thirteen coding agents pre-wired, a usage panel in the top bar, and segfaults handed to whichever agent you set as default. The catch: arm64 container images don't run on GCP, and buildx-plus-QEMU costs 3-5x on every build.

    September 7, 2026 10 min read

  2. 2.

    I Read Omarchy's AGENTS.md So You Don't Have To

    Someone else's AGENTS.md, read from the source: a 133-line router into seven task skills, a docs tree split by genre and audience, a skill that makes the agent screenshot its own UI change before finishing, and five design docs where every one that reached revision 2 names an adversarial Codex review in its third line. Six of the 30 most recent commits carried an agent trailer.

    September 11, 2026 10 min read

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