Ryoku

Ryoku

Ryoku is an Arch Linux desktop: a Hyprland compositor, a single Quickshell shell that draws the bar, the dock, the launcher, the popouts and the widgets, and a set of Go command-line tools that own the config. This skill is for changing a running Ryoku system on behalf of its user. It is not for developing Ryoku itself (editing the source checkout, writing migrations, cutting a release).

When to use this skill

Use it whenever a request would change the desktop or read its state: the bar layout and widgets, the dock, Hyprland behaviour, themes and wallpaper, keybinds, idle and lock, plugins, or any ~/.config file Ryoku owns. If you are about to guess a path or edit a config file under ~/.config, stop and use this skill.

Do not use it to modify the Ryoku source tree, and never treat a shipped file as a place to store a user's choice.

Read the vault first

A maintained map of THIS machine lives in the Rashin vault at ~/.local/share/ryoku/rashin/. Read it before searching the filesystem or guessing where anything lives:

• AGENTS.md: the entry contract and the vault's own rules.
• desktop.md: the map. Every subsystem, the config path that owns it, the binary that owns it, and how to reload it. Its generated "Bar and dock" section lists every bar widget id, its visibility key, and the bar and dock commands. Read this before touching the bar.
• system.md, packages.md, user.md, habits.md: hardware, packages, where this user diverges from the shipped defaults, and this user's directories and tool stack.

user.md lists the user's own choices; never revert one to a shipped default without being asked. Write durable notes to memory/, dated notes to journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md; never edit inside a rashin:generated fence, a reindex overwrites it.

Topic guides sit beside this file. Read the matching one first:

• bar.md: the QS Bar and the dock, their layout model, and the ryoku-shell bar / ryoku-shell dock commands.
• plugins.md: installing, listing, and removing shell plugins with ryoku plugin, and Ryostore.

Safety rules

Ryoku separates the files it ships from the files you own, so an update can refresh the base freely while your changes stand. Respect the split:

• Never edit a shipped file in place. /usr/share/ryoku/ (the packaged base) and the files Ryoku lays into ~/.config/quickshell/ are re-laid on every ryoku update (ryoku materialize clobbers every shipped file), so an edit there is lost on the next update. Reading them is safe and useful.
• A user override goes to the overlay: ~/.config/ryoku/user_edits/, which mirrors ~/.config. A file there wins at its mirrored path and survives every update. To change a shipped Hyprland or app config, drop your version at the mirrored path under user_edits (a fork), or, better, use the dedicated override file the tool already reads (hypr/user.lua, hypr/settings.lua, kitty/user.conf, fish/user.fish), which the package never ships and never touches. ryoku reset <path> drops an overlay file back to the base.
• Prefer a command over a file edit. The tool that owns a setting is its one writer; hand-editing its store drifts. Ryoku Settings' own state (bar, colours, launcher, device lighting) lives under ~/.config/ryoku/*.json, written by their tools (the shell daemon, ryoku-hub, ryogami); do not hand-edit those JSON stores, drive them through the command or the GUI so one writer stays in charge.

Command discovery

Ryoku's behaviour lives behind five command-line tools, all self-documenting. Prefer a command to a file edit; read a command's --help before running it.

ryoku --help                 # the ryoku CLI surface
ryoku-shell bar catalog      # every bar widget, its id, and its settings
ryoku-shell bar list         # the live bar, per section, with shown state
ryogami wallpaper --help

To find WHERE a setting is read (which QML file, which key), use prowl-agent inside the vault's read-only source mirror at ~/.local/share/ryoku/rashin/source/, which indexes the live ~/.config:

cd ~/.local/share/ryoku/rashin/source && prowl-agent search "barPosition"
cd ~/.local/share/ryoku/rashin/source && prowl-agent find barShellStyle

The mirror is read-only and rebuilt on every reindex; never edit files in it, edit the real path desktop.md names.

Decision framework

When a request would change the system, in order:

1. Is there a command for it? Use it. The bar and dock have a full CLI (ryoku-shell bar ..., ryoku-shell dock ..., see bar.md); wallpaper has ryogami wallpaper set; updates have ryoku update.
2. Is it a plugin? A shell widget installs from git with ryoku plugin add <url> --bar, or from Ryostore; see plugins.md. Never run a plugin's code to install it. A Hyprland compositor plugin (title bars, cursor motion, key sounds, a .so the compositor loads) is managed by ryoku-hub hypr plugins list|rebuild|add|remove and Settings > Plugins; a "version mismatch" after an update means ryoku-hub hypr plugins rebuild --stale.
3. Is it a config edit with no command? Edit the override, never the shipped file: the tool's own user.* file, or a fork at the mirrored path under ~/.config/ryoku/user_edits/. Then reload (ryoku reload, or hyprctl reload for Hyprland).
4. Is it a theme or wallpaper? Drive it through ryogami and ryoku-hub, which own the colour master; never write the palette or theme shadow by hand.
5. Is it a package? ryoku update for the whole system; pacman/yay for one package.
6. Unsure a command exists? Read the tool's --help, or desktop.md.

Example requests

• "Move the clock to the right" -> ryoku-shell bar move clock --section right
• "Hide the GPU widget" -> ryoku-shell bar hide gpu
• "Show the battery widget again" -> ryoku-shell bar show battery
• "Put the bar at the bottom" -> ryoku-shell bar position bottom
• "Make the bar islands" -> ryoku-shell bar form islands
• "Reset the bar to defaults" -> ryoku-shell bar defaults
• "Open the bar settings" -> ryoku-shell bar settings
• "Turn the dock off" -> ryoku-shell dock hide
• "Pin Firefox to the dock" -> ryoku-shell dock pin firefox
• "Add a weather plugin from GitHub" -> ryoku plugin add <git-url> --bar
• "List my installed plugins" -> ryoku plugin list
• "Lock after ten minutes" -> fork hypr/hypridle.conf into ~/.config/ryoku/user_edits/hypr/hypridle.conf and set the lock listener's timeout to 600, then ryoku materialize lays the fork live and pkill -x hypridle; setsid hypridle -c ~/.config/hypr/hypridle.conf & restarts the idle daemon on it (hypridle reads its config only at start; hyprctl reload does not reach it)
• "Change my wallpaper" -> ryogami wallpaper set <path>
• "Next wallpaper" -> ryogami wallpaper next
• "Update the system" -> ryoku update
• "Roll back a bad update" -> ryoku rollback