FileBlade 0.2.0

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FileBlade 0.2.0

FileBlade 0.2.0 is a native Omarchy application providing customizable IDE-like sidebars, file workflows, Notes, Skills, Memory, Hooks and MCP panes.

This release adds verified native installation, explicit desktop integration roles, migration, safe shutdown and rollback. It includes newest-first media browsing with a saved order toggle, working video posters, collision handling, desktop Reveal and file chooser integration, and corrected tailnet SFTP refresh.

The <= 0.1.3 plugin is archived; the project didn't work as well with the whole "plugin-in-plugin" system.

New features:

• Skills, mcp, hooks, memory are all part of FileBlade core

• SQLite db for tracking skill and MCP usage, and heatmap to show usage

  

• New module "Branches" that shows your git branches (local and remote) and worktrees

  

• Improvements for search and git status indicators

• Support for Tailnet and mounted / unmounted drives

• Quick access to common trash

• Media mode to see image previews

  

• Dataviz of images

• Improvements to selection wheel

• Visualization of drive storage

  

• Additional customization

Screenshots use sample data in an isolated workspace 9 session and are cropped
to the feature shown.

Further improvements and fixes

• Media starts newest first, with a saved ascending/descending arrow replacing
  the Git and column controls. MP4 posters work with trailing metadata, and
  hourly timelines retain every day with 24 bars.
• Pickers keep text files visible after media browsing. Reveal preserves the
  requested selection while its folder loads. Copy collisions show the decision
  dialog, including Keep both.
• Terminal actions preserve tmux named and explicit sockets. Herdr targets its
  focused pane, Hunk requires Git changes, and opening a file in a new terminal
  starts Neovim. Holding Space before leaving a blade opens the drop wheel.
• Tailnet SFTP refresh retains connections made through validated SSH aliases.
  Drives remains the main volume list; “Volumes in the tree” restores the
  optional tree entries and their route to connected peers.
• Branches opens beside Properties. A linked worktree nests under its branch;
  Enter opens that folder. The main checkout is not repeated as a worktree.
  Status uses the same upstream/change counts as the file-tree summary. Branch
  switching supports remote branches, and the CLI exposes open, close and list.
• Skills and MCP activity updates when transcripts change, with a 60-second
  fallback refresh. Counts survive deleted transcripts in the private SQLite
  history; fileblade usage skills|mcp reads it and fileblade usage forget
  removes it. The former JSON cache is retired.
• Skill counts cover Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI, Antigravity and
  Pi, including namespaced skills and typed commands. MCP counts include
  Codex, OpenCode and Copilot CLI; dotted server names, resources and prompts
  are counted. Expanding an MCP row shows used tools, resources and prompts,
  including failure counts.
• Heatmap tooltips show the date, total and agent/user/scheduled shares. Click
  or press Enter on a Skills day to filter; Esc clears. Activity refresh does
  not rescan skill directories, and the Activity button hides the heatmap.
• Skills, Memory, Hooks and MCP run in the bundled Rust backend without Python
  helpers. Delete works on their rows, with separate deactivate and symlink
  actions. Disabled skills remain visible and usable through their recovery
  copy; failed bin reads preserve rows and retry.
• Hook edits refuse invalid output or loss of unrelated top-level keys, leaving
  the original file unchanged. Notes shows last edit time and word/character
  counts while retaining save-error and conflict notices.
• Search fields consistently precede pane headers, and / still opens search.
  Toolbar buttons are configurable, hidden buttons retain keyboard routes
  except Drives, and row density uses five stops from XS to XL.
• Native theme colors reload in both directions. Blade resizing no longer
  triggers cursor warps or jumps to maximum width. Drive usage can be hidden
  per Files tab; fileblade space [PATH] reports the same capacity.
• Unknown actions and malformed bindings are skipped with a notice. Older
  versions preserve newer settings/keybinding version markers, and reads
  identify the version that wrote each file.
• Native installation rejects mixed payload versions, checks the advertised
  archive version and target, and supports safe shutdown, migration, updates
  and rollback. Long state paths and launcher paths with reserved characters
  are supported. Desktop roles restore owned entries while preserving newer
  user choices; shipped bindings use the public CLI.
• Native CLI helpers share the running authority for reads and mutations.
  fileblade doctor reports blocked recovery as unhealthy, and refused module,
  slot, tab and screen commands exit unsuccessfully.
• Extensions can reuse the image grid, thumbnail cache, timeline and five-step
  image-size control. Module icons appear consistently in the picker, settings
  and pane header.
• Every documented feature has screenshot and short-video evidence under
  features/.

Installation and verification

Install the native app on an up-to-date x86-64 Omarchy system:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/data-goblin/fileblade/v0.2.0/install.sh | sh
fileblade

Desktop integration is experimental and opt-in. For shortcuts and login startup:

fileblade native roles enable --role bindings
fileblade native roles enable --role autostart

Alternatively, download fileblade-native-0.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst and install it with sudo pacman -U.

To verify the downloads, download every attached asset into one directory and run:

sha256sum --check --strict SHA256SUMS

The bootstrap separately verifies the archive SHA-256, advertised version/target and complete payload inventory before installation. SHA-256 verifies integrity; these manifests are not signed.

111 feature guides with screenshot/video proof · Build provenance

The bundled backend was independently reproduced and signed by the
exact-commit provenance build.
The attached fileblade-bin.sigstore.json verifies the attached backend and the
identical backend inside both native packages; it does not sign the complete archives.

gh attestation verify ./fileblade-bin --bundle ./fileblade-bin.sigstore.json \
  --repo data-goblin/fileblade \
  --signer-workflow data-goblin/fileblade/.github/workflows/bundle-provenance.yml \
  --source-digest b58a46f847134fd8228dc1506b4605b6f62ed523 \
  --signer-digest b58a46f847134fd8228dc1506b4605b6f62ed523 \
  --deny-self-hosted-runners

FileBlade 0.1.3

• UI changes
  • Hide internal caches and reset Quick Nav selection for new queries.
  • Font size: scale the text in every blade from the General settings.
• Update notification
  • Name the available release version instead of counting commits.
  • List companion updates separately, one bullet per extension.

Backend rebuilt and attested on GitHub for commit 5ec3528 (fileblade-bin.sigstore.json). The last plugin-only 0.1.x release; 0.2.0 adds the native app.

FileBlade 0.1.2

• Added a pinned release workflow that rebuilds the backend on GitHub and publishes a build provenance attestation, and release tags are now SSH-signed, as of 0.1.2

No behaviour changes: same code as 0.1.1, rebuilt under the new version.

FileBlade 0.1.1

FileBlade 0.1.1: hardening, and you now choose what happens to your Trash.

• FileBlade asks once whether it should automatically empty the trash, with Never selected and nothing pruned until you confirm; existing installs are asked too, and the choice lives in settings
• Skills and Memory stay browsable, while their management actions now require an explicit opt-in
• Update checks read bounded remote metadata instead of fetching Git objects
• The Welcome installer keeps existing checkouts, enables one only when its origin, reviewed commit and clean tree all match, and works inside strict time, size and staging limits
• Archive extraction checks member count and expanded size before writing anything
• Undo records are bounded, private, and removed with the bin entry they belong to
• Every helper call now requires an enabled companion, and a disabled one must be re-enabled before its restore runs

OMARCHY_SHELL_IPC_TIMEOUT=10s omarchy plugin add https://github.com/data-goblin/fileblade.git --enable
omarchy restart shell

Requires Omarchy 4.0.2 or later on x86-64 Linux. Update the four extensions alongside FileBlade; MCP and Hooks move to host contract 3. The bundled backend needs no Rust toolchain and its build is reproducible: check out this tag and run tools/bundle verify to rebuild it byte for byte.

Enjoy!

FileBlade 0.1.0

FileBlade 0.1.0: customizable IDE-like sidebars for Omarchy, out of beta.

• Support for multiple monitors: blades open on the monitor you invoke them from, and a blade can be locked to one monitor
• Fixed an issue with the latest version of Omarchy, 4.0.3, that stopped installed extensions from loading in FileBlade
• Fixed the Confirm Delete dialog staying open on another monitor after you had already answered it
• The Welcome tab installs Memory, Skills, MCP and Hooks at reviewed commits rather than whatever is on their branches

OMARCHY_SHELL_IPC_TIMEOUT=10s omarchy plugin add https://github.com/data-goblin/fileblade.git --enable
omarchy restart shell

Requires Omarchy 4.0.2 or later on x86-64 Linux. The bundled x86-64 backend needs no Rust toolchain, and its build is reproducible: check out this tag and run tools/bundle verify to rebuild it byte for byte. See the README for the keyboard bindings and SECURITY.md for trust boundaries.

0.1.1 will bring additional updates and fixes, due within the next day.

Enjoy!

FileBlade 0.1.0 Beta

First beta of FileBlade: customizable IDE-like sidebars for Omarchy, with file navigation, search, previews, Notes, a selection wheel, and a CLI.

Requires Omarchy 4.0.2 or later on x86-64 Linux. The plugin includes its statically linked Rust backend; installing it needs no Rust toolchain.

OMARCHY_SHELL_IPC_TIMEOUT=10s omarchy plugin add https://github.com/data-goblin/fileblade.git --enable
omarchy restart shell

Follow the README to add the keyboard bindings. The Welcome panel installs Memory, Skills, MCP, and Hooks from GitHub with one click and adds them to the right sidebar. All four are installed together with one plugin reload. Skills, MCP, and Hooks share the top section; Memory sits beside Notes. A marketplace listing is not required.

The attached fileblade-bin is the same x86-64 Linux CLI/backend included in the plugin. Its SHA-256 checksum, source fingerprint, and third-party license notices are attached alongside it. The source archive includes the complete QML plugin and launcher. Other architectures need a compatible backend built separately.

See SECURITY.md for trust boundaries and CONTRIBUTING.md for reproducible builds and tests. This is a prerelease; feedback is welcome.